Girls and Aircraft - Volume II (1 Viewer)

[MiTasol]

Pilots notes at Miles Martinet Documents. The one in the photo is missing its gear doors

 

[Elvis]

Perhaps a Miles Martinet?

Sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you.

 

[Steve Hnz]

What airplane are they standing in front of?

Could also be a Master II. Also Mercury engined like the Martinet. I'd expect a Martinet to have black over yellow target tug stripes on the underside, not seeing them on this aircraft.

 

[Glider]

My first thought when I saw the photo was 'What's a Buffalo doing in 46'!!

PS I know that I'm wrong

 

[Elvis]

My first thought when I saw the photo was 'What's a Buffalo doing in 46'!!

PS I know that I'm wrong

Hey, you're wrong.

 

[Glider]

Hey, you're wrong.

Damn, you saw through my double bluff

 

[Gnomey]

 

[Snautzer01]

Douglas C-47B-1-DL Skytrain (MSN 20709) w/o Jan 31, 1946 reportedly w/o

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[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[Gnomey]

 

[Elvis]

...since we seem to be on a UK theme here lately...

 

[Elvis]

Betty Haas Pfister was a two-time winner of the All Women's International Air Race, worked for Pan Am and flew gliders and balloons.

 

[MiTasol]

Betty Haas Pfister was a two-time winner of the All Women's International Air Race, worked for Pan Am and flew gliders and balloons.


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doing a P-39 preflight fuel drain.

 

[MIflyer]

Betty Theobald Blagen, Air Evac Nurse, unloading her plane.
From the notebooks of Mary White Grant: Short Stories from Newly Digitized Women's Archival Collections

 

[Wurger]

:thumbrioght:

 

[Snautzer01]

doing a P-39 preflight fuel drain.

With pliers.

 

[special ed]

It IS a P-39.

 

[MiTasol]

With pliers.

NOT unusual in sub zero weather as it keeps the fuel off your gloves

 

[Snautzer01]

NOT unusual in sub zero weather as it keeps the fuel off your gloves

Not complaining just noticing.