Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

[Elvis]

So tell me again about the time you went inverted?

 

[Elvis]

 

[XBe02Drvr]

So tell me again about the time you went inverted?

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"Damn! My lipstick fell down under the rudder pedals. Gee it's dark down here, smelly and icky too! I'll be up in a minute. Look the other way, pervert!"

 

[Gnomey]

 

[CATCH 22]

 

[Tieleader]

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Oh Canada!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[CATCH 22]

Oh Canada!

Hot as usual!

(N.B. This photo is from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario showing my favorite exhibit).

 

[MIflyer]

Here is are another couple that I don't know if you have seen. Lockheed-Vega.

And North American at Long Beach

 

[Wurger]

 

[Elvis]

World's first female flying ace, Lilia Litvyak...

...aka The White Lily. She was an ace by 19...

Read her story here.


Elvis

 

[at6]

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Just look at those intakes.

 

[Jager52]

Ref. Post 3471.
Elvis, thanks. That is one of those stories that could be a good movie too. Good post, appreciated. She must have been one heck of a fighter pilot.
Jager

 

[MIflyer]

Now, if I do say so myself, here is a truly GREAT one! Maybe the All Time Best Ever! A slightly higher resolution version.

 

[Gnomey]

 

[gumbyk]

Ref. Post 3471.
Elvis, thanks. That is one of those stories that could be a good movie too. Good post, appreciated. She must have been one heck of a fighter pilot.
Jager

It would be a good movie. Even a twist at the end, as she was shot down but her body was never found. Due to Stalin's policy of executing any pilots who were shot down behind enemy lines, and managed to make it back, if she survived being shot down, she wouldn't have returned. There was some speculation that she lived out her days in Scandinavia (I can't remember exactly where).

There is a book of her life called "White Rose of Stalingrad" which is pretty good. She certainly lived an interesting life: The Short, Daring Life of Lilya Litvyak

 

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[Zipper730]

Due to Stalin's policy of executing any pilots who were shot down behind enemy lines, and managed to make it back, if she survived being shot down, she wouldn't have returned.

Why did he do that?

 

[MIflyer]

The Soviets had great concerns about their people being "poisoned" by contact with other cultures. Shortly after WWII they even recalled all their spies in the West and executed them.

 

[at6]

The Soviets had great concerns about their people being "poisoned" by contact with other cultures. Shortly after WWII they even recalled all their spies in the West and executed them.

So that's the play book that Putin uses?