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[Wayne Little]

Wow, that's rather interesting...

 

[vikingBerserker]

I think it's just a combination of the angle and the fact the aircraft are so fricken huge.

 

[Njaco]

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[Njaco]

I had to post these because I remember a conversation on the forum recently that debated whether the Allies had as bad airfields as the Germans (it was in relation to the Bf 109 undercarriage). Someone stated that Allied airfields were mostly paved and didn't have the kind of accidents that the Germans had. Oh well.......

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

" Someone stated that Allied airfields were mostly paved and didn't have the kind of accidents that the Germans had."
Hmmm........ there goes that theory.

 

[Gnomey]

Yep...

Good shots!

 

[Matt308]

Help me out, what's up with the P-40 in the last pic with no armament?

 

[herman1rg]

Help me out, what's up with the P-40 in the last pic with no armament?

Looks possibly pre 1941 due to the insignia, possibly a training version?

 

[T Bolt]

Looks possibly pre 1941 due to the insignia, possibly a training version?

Agree. By the markings and the silver prop that's a very very early P-40E or even one of the few P-40D's. Maybe it was an evaluation flight that went bad. With those guys in the trench coats standing around that would be my guess. Too bad it doesn't have a tail number we can check.

 

[Airframes]

Just a note on the Allied airfields. Most fighter airfields were not paved - they were mainly grass fields. Those in use by the USAAF sometimes, but not always, had hard runways, but these were often of poor initial quality, with surfaces that erroded quickly. Many had PSP or 'Sommerfeld Tracking', but might have hard taxi ways.
Only those (fighter) airfields which had been pre-war RAF permanent Stations, more likely bomber fields handed over to either RAF or USAAF fighter units, might have proper concrete runways, with those built later as bomber fields having a similar hard runway.

 

[4trade]

 

[Airframes]

Not sure about that Spitfire. It appears to be a MkIX, but with green and dark earth camouflage. Also, the exhausts don't look right, and there's a strange ring, which looks like a lifting or suspension eye, above the fuel tank cowling. This, and the colour saturation, make me think this is a replica Spit, from a movie set, although I could be wrong.

 

[fubar57]

Can't be in England....the sky is blue.

Geo

 

[Airframes]

Dead right! The other thing, war time Spit IXs were normally fitted with a wooden 'Jablo' type prop, which if belly landed, would shatter or snap the blades.

 

[evangilder]

And one of the lower blades is still fairly straight.

 

[Airframes]

Yep.

 

[Crimea_River]

Yes, I'd expect the lower probs to bend differently on a real plane. These are splayed outwards at the boss end, the strongest part of the blade.......

 

[Matt308]

...blade

[clouds look suspicious. Like white fluffy german blood sausage.]

 

[beaupower32]

View attachment 222988

2008 Wings Wheels Show at the Ursel Airfield in Belgium, they had this mock crash site of a spitfire.

 

[meatloaf109]

That would explain why it's sitting nicely on a sandpile.