Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

[Bernhart]

thinking the focke wulf girl must be the summer uniform

 

[Gnomey]

8)

 

[Wayne Little]

NICE!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Good one Steve.

 

[at6]

Nice buns, nice legs, great plane.

 

[Wayne Little]

Agreed, agreed...and Agreed...

 

[stona]

The lady driving the tractor is LACW Lillian Youle (later Rollison). Oddly her name is often misspelt Yule in captions for this IWM image, but confirmed as Youle by one of her nieces.

The posed picture was taken at Fiskerton during the summer of 1943. The Lancaster DV238, EA-O, is serving on 49 Squadron. It later went to 44 Squadron (as KM-M) and was lost on a raid to Berlin on 16/17 December 1943. Only one of her crew survived.

In 1943 Bomber Command employed 128,000 ground crew of whom just over 34,000 were WAAFs.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

8)

 

[v2]

Cracow's Museum of Aviation

 

[Shinpachi]

Looks like a professional's photo

 

[Njaco]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Excellent finds Chris! Do you know the aircraft in the second shot?

 

[michaelmaltby]

Fairey Battle ... ?

 

[Njaco]

I believe that's a Russian LaGG-3

Lavochkin/Gorbunov/Gudkov LaGG-3 - fighter

 

[Njaco]

 

[Gnomey]

8)

 

[Wurger]

Excellent finds Chris! Do you know the aircraft in the second shot?

Fairey Battle ... ?

I believe that's a Russian LaGG-3

Lavochkin/Gorbunov/Gudkov LaGG-3 - fighter

Nope. It's a Yak-1 or Yak-7. I would say it's a Yak-1 of the second series. Please note the main wheel bay door at the main landing gear leg. It's more wide than the one of the LaGG-3 at the area of the shock absorber. Also the air intake under the engine cowling is larger than the LaGG one. Exhaust pipes are of different shape and layout. The windscreen of the cockpit conopy is more "square". What is more, the Pitot tube is on the port wing in the pic while the LaGG-3 had it on the starboard wing. Additionally , the line of the bottom part of the engine cowling and the side piece of that ( the area where the top and bottome colours are seen ) runs more "steeply". The Lagg-3 had the line running almost horizontal and there were noticed quite distinctive , big fasteners for the bottom part of the engine cowling with the air intake for the oil cooler.