Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (1 Viewer)

[SaparotRob]

RAAF Avro Anson A4-5 formation over Richmond-Sydney area NSW Australia ASBIZ
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There's a sight to fill the LW with fear!

 

[Viking1066]

Starting a Kawasaki Ki-48 the hard way of the 8th Sentai Burma 1943 BURI

 

[Viking1066]

P-38 Lightning 8AF-55FG38FS CG at-Nuthampstead ASBIZ

 

[Zippythehog]

Starting a Kawasaki Ki-48 the hard way of the 8th Sentai Burma 1943 BURI
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I think they're pulling the prop through, before a start attempt. It moves the oil out of the bottom cylinders and prevents engine damage.

I don't think hand propping an engine that size could be safely successful.

 

[SaparotRob]

I don't think hand propping an engine that size could be safely successful.

What if we used "Yakety Sax" as the soundtrack?


View: https://youtu.be/kYfibSaDHrM?list=RDkYfibSaDHrM&t=47

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu tail gun OSPE

 

[MIflyer]

Well, I understand that there were actual victories scored by Ansons that inspired this box art?

At this point the Brits will chime in and assure us that Ansons scored 324 confirmed victories over Luftwaffe fighters and were the scourge of the skies until the jet age. I especially like how that single .303 machine guns is blowing the Wulf's gear right out of the wing.

Just like the deadly Boulton Paul Defiant.

 

[MiTasol]

That is one of the special ops Q plane Beaufighters disguised as Ansons with a belt fed 20mm Hispano turret.

 

[SaparotRob]

That is one of the special ops Q plane Beaufighters disguised as Ansons with a belt fed 20mm Hispano turret.

The things one learns here.

 

[MiTasol]

Yep. Most of the Q-ship stuff has leaked out years ago but the Q-planes are still classified (except for the QHurricane - also known as the Defiant).

Q-ship - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-43s of 64th Sentai on Sumatra 1943 DEKI

 

[Viking1066]

RAAF Avro-Ansons training flight Mascot-Richmond Sept 1943 ASBIZ

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice camo on the Nakajima.

 

[MIflyer]

Nice camo on the Nakajima.

One officer I worked with in LA had a silver Datsun 240Z. Someone vandalized it by spraying green paint in irregular blotches down the sides and I told him he had a WW2 Japanese camo scheme.

 

[Viking1066]

Kawasaki Ki-61s under assembly at Kawasaki's Gifu plant January 1944 DEKI

 

[Viking1066]

Bristol Blenheim-I RAF 90Sqn in flight 1938 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Kawasaki Ki-100s 5th Sentai at Kiyosu Air Base Aichi Prefecture June 1945 DEKI

 

[Viking1066]

Tropical Spitfires in transit to the Middle East and Gibraltar ASBIZ

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Tropical Spitfires in transit to the Middle East and Gibraltar ASBIZ
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Notice the different camo markings.

 

[Zippythehog]

Also, different propellers. AR525 has a de Havilland and EP965 has the Rotol.

EP was sent to Malta and crashed in March 43. AR525 went to North Africa. According to AllSpitfirePilots site.

It also looks like EP has a C wing with 4 cannons and AR a C wing with 2?