Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (5 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N and undentified personal 1942-1943 WIMI

 

[Viking1066]

Pedestal Fleet Air Arm 899NAS Seafire III aboard HMS Khedive-Grand Harbour Valletta Malta Jul 1944 ASBIZ

 

[cammerjeff]

Pedestal Fleet Air Arm 899NAS Seafire III aboard HMS Khedive-Grand Harbour Valletta Malta Jul 1944 ASBIZ
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What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!

 

[Viking1066]

What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!

Your guess is as good as mine. I can't of any other reason for them being there. I don't know British aircraft that well.

 

[Wurger]

What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!

The braces were used for blocking/protection of the folded wings. A quite similar system that was used for the F4U Corsair. These were attached when the maintenance crew was going to fold or unfold the wings. Also these helped to keep the process running smooth because , contrary to the F4U, the Spitfire wing folding was made manually IIRC.

the pic source: Armoured Aircraft Carriers

 

[N4521U]

What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!

Or......................... a funny place for a Stall Strip!!!
I'll get me hat!

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi A5M1 '31' and '32' of 12th Ku at Gungdai AB March 1938 KAGE

 

[Viking1066]

Pedestal HMS-Eagle with Spitfires escorted by HMS Malaya part of Force X Mediterranean ASBIZ

 

[Shinpachi]

IJN floating machine shop vessel Urakami-maru at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1942.

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Zippythehog]

IJN floating machine shop vessel Urakami-maru at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1942.

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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

Man, it just looks stuffy in there.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N1 on its final flight as a Special Attacker heading to Okinawa 1945 KINJ

 

[Viking1066]

Vought AU 1 Corsair French Navy Flottille White 332 ASBIZ

 

[Shinpachi]

Man, it just looks stuffy in there.

It looks so but nothing changes.

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[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-49-II 7th Sentai at But East Airfield 1943 OSPE

 

[Viking1066]

CV 47 USS Philippine Sea caught in a snowstorm 15th Nov 1950 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

RAF Veronica X Dutch ferry pilot for ATA 22nd Feb 1943 ASBIZ

 

[Shinpachi]

Building the Thai–Burma Railway from July 1942 to October 1943.

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Zippythehog]

Building the Thai–Burma Railway from July 1942 to October 1943.

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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

I can't find Alec Guinness in any of these…?