Apparently some on this site are approved to utilize flatulence humor in this case concerning the posted pictures but I suppose I am not. What is the criteria, please, to make that statement?
Famous scene all in reference to the other posts about the guy in an oxygen mask and Limburger cheese bombs! What are the favorite beans in England? In this case guys squatting around a bomb rack instead of a campfire! Check the YouTube you'll remember.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
As much as the amazing camo, what really catches my eye is the camo Airacuda center right. Never have seen it that dressed that way, really makes it look much more purposeful than the all silver metal versions usually seen. Too bad it underperformed, it really looks the part what could have...
I'm with you on that. The antenna mast seems to be casting two shadows, one straight back and the other ghosting down onto the wing, like if you had two light sources in a studio. Funny it has no identifying national insignia or numbers. It makes me think if might be a test model a cut above a...
As I recall from Dick Cole’s War, when he was flying the Hump at an airfield operating both C-46’s and C-47’s, he was glad he was flying the C-47 due to the C-46’s that seemed to explode for no apparent reason, unlike the ‘47.
I’ve wondered about that too, but USAAC pre-war also had high visibility yellow color wings. I am making an educated guess that in the era of perhaps less reliable aircraft that it would aid in recovering downed aviators so high visibility made a lot of sense. Maybe someone with real knowledge...
That got me looking at my Dad’s logbook as a B-26 Pathfinder to see how deep they went. From fall ‘44 missions just past the Ardennes to hit staging areas and troop concentrations. A fair number up and down the Saar and east side of the Rhine. But toward the end they got deeper with lighter...
What an interesting topic because it weaves technology with aerodynamics. It seems like this discussion could become a presage of the current BVR fighter combat, only within the bounds of VR being limited then to nighttime vision range and ability of early radar to overcome that. The Bf-110...