Recent content by Juanita

Looks like its been AI generated. The weirdness around the B-29 nose. The chaps weird shorts (cross between shorts and a skirt?) The inappropriate placement of personnel and shadows. There is also something weird about the aircraft in the background but I can't put my finger on it.

Cute!

Its a fabulous photo! Despite being on a pole, it looks like it has an authentic inservice scheme...the Air Transport Command patch on the rear fuselage is quirky. As it was very late in the P-51A production, and the C an B models were coming into service, it strongly suggests this was allocated...

Are you able to check local newspapers from the time?

I came across the Larson/Junkers story while researching Eddie Richenbacker....but this photos is new to me too. Beautiful clear photo...Library of Congress? Juanita

I agree with the comments about waste and deadwood in Government departments, but I would like to say the same is true of businesses. Seems that as soon as you get more than 200 employees (random number, might be only 100), people can start playing the system. In small companies of a few dozen...

Facinating. Be very interesting to hear its story. I illustrated a book on the type, and have technical data but unfortunately no parts manual. There are quite a few engineering drawings in the AirCorps Library collection but they are filed under P-40...and are the 75-### series of drawings. If...

The B-17 were also used in the ELINT type role (hope I have the right term, electronic recon) in Europe. After the war the B-17 was used in lots of roles, including a few painted black and used by the CIA. You might find these interesting...

It seemed inevitable this type of thing would start happening when Allan Joyce began outsourcing and staff cutting....and effectively cutting the wages of some of the workforce by introducing different work contracts for new staff (as told to me by flight attendant friends, surprise: none of...

Beautiful photos. I have seen some of them before but not at this resolution.

Ken Merrick wrote a multi volume work on Luftwaffe camouflage. He told me, when I was drawing an Ar 234, that in the late stages of the war the camouflage applied to the Ar 234 was not applied as a thick paint, rather it was spray as a thinner wash, so didn't appear as bright as you see in the...

I was under the impression it was standard RAF trainer yellow...same as used on the roundel edges, and training aircraft. The colours themselves might vary from paint batch to paint batch, but the actual RAF colour specifications didn't tend to change - although they might add colours and drop...

Derek Buckmaster has did a lot of research on the Boomernag a few years ago, using manuals and available engineering drawings. I have small concens regarding his engine cowl, but I have no doubt that what he has drawn is an accurate representation of CAC drawings/data. He has kindly made is...

"Ki-43 was poorly armed, poorly protected, slow, fragile, and maybe of shoddy construction." I was around the Australian War Memorial's Oscar back in the 1970s, I don't recall seeing anthing that looked like 'shoddy construction' to me. The edges of the panels were all finished, no dodgy...

Out of interest, what year is that publication? Unfortunately publishers didn't lways include the date in those days