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Col. E. W. Stewart 8AF 65FW 4FG 336FS with P-51D s/n 44-72181 "Sunny VIII" - Doesn't sarge look happy?




Another shot of "Sunny VIII"



P-51D 65FW 355FG 358FS - White spinner, Yellow nose and rudder, green anti-glare panel



Capt. Don Gentile 8AF 65FW 4FG 336FS with P-51B



Some of the same guys with 2 place P-51B



P-51D "STASIA II" 8AF 353FG 352FS



8AF 67FW 364FG 383FS



Maj. Wm. A. Shomo F6D 82nd Tactical Rec. Sq Mindoro, Island, Phillipines in this aircraft shot down six planes during the same mission.


source: ed - National Archives photos
 
Good stuff.
The third pic, showing YF-U, was taken at Speke (Liverpool) airport, at the end of the European war. The airport has since been re-designed, with new runways and terminal buildings, slightly east of the original field, now being known as John Lennon International Airport.
The original terminal and control tower, seen in the pic, have been preserved and now serve as a hotel complex.
 

XFF-1 BuNo 8878 prototype 1st flight 29 DEC 1931 redesig FF-1 in 1936 crashed out of fuel 4 MAR 1937



XSF-1 BuNo 8940 scout prototype first flight 20 AUG 1932



XF2F-1 BuNo 9342 crashed Anacostia NAS Apr 1938



F2F-1



F2F-1 BuNo 9626 crashed NAS Miami MAY 1941



F3F-1 BuNo 0211 crashed at sea NAS Miami MARCH 1942



F3F-1 BuNo 0232



F3F-2



F3F-3 BuNo 1463


source: ed - National Archives photos
 

XSB2C-1 Curtiss factory photo



SB2C-1 Curtiss photo dated 1 NOV 1943 (one of the first 200 acft with four .50 cal. guns)



national archives photo



SB2C-4 from USS Lake Champlaine CV-39 23 JUNE 1945



Curtiss photo of A-25 supplied to Australia






XBT2C-1 Curtiss photo



XBT2C-1 Curtiss photo



Curtiss SC-2 on wheels not float - Peter Bowers photo



Beech GB-2 - Beech photo

source: ed
 
great pics as always.

Airframes said:
now being known as John Lennon International Airport.
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Good spotting Terry, was gonna do the same. As an aside, the motto of John Lennon Airport is, not surprisingly, "Above Us Only Sky" - a line from Lennon's classic track "Imagine", and Ian Hislop of British satire magazine Private Eye once quipped, the baggage handlers had their own motto from the same song, "Imagine no possessions..."
 

Curtiss F14C-2



Curtiss XF15C-1 Curtiss - photo 18 JUL 1946



Boeing XF8B-1 - Boeing photo 26 JUN 1946



Boeing XF8B-1 - Boeing photo



Boeing XF8B-1 - Boeing photo



Timm N2T-1 BuNo 32633 USMC over San Diego, molded plywood throughout, pilot Col. Gephart, C. O. of ABG-2



Bell XFL-1



Bell XFL-1 Bell photos


Source: ed - National Archives photos
 

C-46A - Curtiss photo



XC-46B - Curtiss photo



C-46D - Curtiss phot



C-46A - photo by R.L. Stuckey



SO3C-1 - Curtiss photo



SO3C-1 - Curtiss photo



Curtiss SO3C-1 at NAS New Orleans - This one with tail hook and search antennae under wings








No data on the Brits--appears to a cannon armed Mk.5 ? and a nice Hurricane with early mkgs?


Source: ed
 
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