MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Note the clear domed front of the drop tank. That was a MAN in there holding a movie camera!
How Would You Like To Ride Here?
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N4521U
Colonel
Yeah, nahhhhh!
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MIflyer
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Shucks, I just flew this morning and riding in that drop tank would have been barf city for me!
Look at photos 5 and 6 of the collection in the middle of this obituary article. Douglas Duncan was a very well known and much admired war photographer. His photos from late WWII and Korea are well worth a look -- he made war look real. He lived a hell of a life.
ThomasP
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re "How Would You Like To Ride Here?"
Maybe, . . . if we went fast enough . . . and high enough . .
Maybe, . . . if we went fast enough . . . and high enough . .
Snautzer01
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eBay: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Hickam Field Hawaï Jan 1945 7th AAF had the fastest ambulance of the war. Pod was made from a converted gas tank.
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Nah. I'm good.
Admiral Beez
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I'm reminded of the mechanics that had to fly inside the Bf 109 as they retreated from one airfield to the next.
Snautzer01
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How about being a camera man in a FW190 in a dogfight
Polikarpov U-2. The so called "sanitarnaya kasseta".
