Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (1 Viewer)

[Viking1066]

Brazilian helicopter carrier NAM Atlântico Operação "Poseidon 2021"WIKI

 

[MIflyer]

Both the same type of tank, just the lighting, a

The tank on the Left wing does not have the characteristic seam of the flat steel tank, as seen on the tank of the Right wing as well on as the belly tank of Col Schilling's rocket-equipped P-47. I guess they could have made steel tanks both with and without the seam, but the Lockheed steel tanks had seams as well.

 

[MiTasol]

Could the left wing tank be one of these? I doubt it is as the nose is not blunt enough but it does show that there were plywood and alloy tanks available.

 

[Viking1066]

Row of Fiat BR.20s 12th Sentai 1 chutai summer 1938 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

A 20 Boston 8GBAP Lodz regiment 3 Squadron 25 with crew Red army airforce 1943 ASBIZ

 

[Airframes]

Re the P-47 tanks.
They are both basically the same "flat" type, although I agree that the tank on the port wing appears to have a "smoother" seam, i.e. not as raised or prominent. The seam can just be discerned on the nose of the tank in the posted pic, and is more visible on the nose and sides in other reproductions of this image that I have seen in some books.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-43 1st Hiko Sentai Hanoi July 1942 aircraft of CO Major Kinshiro Takeshima DEKI

 

[Viking1066]

TBD-1 Devastators of VT-3 on USS Saratoga (CV-3) circa 1938-1940 WIKI

 

[Engineman]

Back when I built that first release of the Monogram 1/48 P-47D, I wondered if they ever mounted that special "flat" drop tank clearly designed to fit under the Jug's belly out on the wing pylons. Well, here is a nice shot of a 56 FG P-47D with a flat drop tank on one wing pylon and a different type of drop tank on the other pylon.View attachment 812057

Post #6777, Great photo. Note the huge stockpile of drop tanks behind, look to be the blue/grey and also white colour. Is this at Horsham? The sky looks bright but the guy's have warm clothing, ground dry but trees still in leaf, must be early Autumn.

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[Airframes]

Photo was taken at Boxted, from memory around September 1944.

 

[MIflyer]

Photo was taken at Boxted, from memory around September 1944.

Caption in the book says it was Boxted. Note that there do not seem to be any Invasion Stripes, but they could have been removed. And as for time of year, how often do you see shots taken in England that they are not wearing warm clothing? Remember that those guys most probably were up most of the night.

 

[Airframes]

Invasion stripes visible beneath the wings.
Note that the "white" drop tanks, at right in the background, are silver-doped 108 gal "paper" tanks.

 

[MIflyer]

Here are a few more shots involving drop tanks. Note that the silver ones seem to be pretty light, which I assume means they are paper. The dull gray ones I guess are steel. At least one of the flat steel tanks with the rim around the sides is visible also. I suspect the gray steel tanks probably would not fit on the belly on a P-47.

Makes me wonder if we have any drop tanks today that are interchangable between multiple aircraft, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, F-34 and if there are any that form the basis for weapons, as the WW2 variants did with napalm bombs.

 

[Viking1066]

Some more WWI aircraft.
Friedrichshafen FF33D '459' in a lineup outside factory. Five of the FF33B ad FF33D floatplanes were the only ones with a Maybach Mb.III 1914 FLYN

Friedrichshafen FF33E '549' with ground crew 1915-1916 FLYN

Friedrichshafen FF33E '717' or FF33F operating with a U-Boat 1916 FLYN

Friedrichshafen FF33H '600' class C 1916 FLYN

Friedrichshafen FF33L '933' at Friedrichshafen facility on Lake Constance 1916 FLYN

 

[Viking1066]

German Friedrichshafen FF.33 '660' AVIN

Swedish Friedrichshafen FF.33E '26' Galarvarvet 1920's AVIN

eight floatplanes at Norderney, NW 525 and Friedrichshafen FF33E '715' and '727' 1916 FLYN

Another view of Friedrichshafen FF33L '1001' 2nd production batch class CHFT FLYN

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great pics Jesse.

 

[Viking1066]

Great pics Jesse.

Thanks! I really like this era of aviation.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-27s being prepared by mechanics of 11 Sentai 2 chutai Manchurian-Mongolian border summer 1939 HIKO

 

[Viking1066]

Fiat CR-42 Falco RSWAF F9.1Sqn White 9 Sweden 1945 ASBIZ

 

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