Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (8 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Bell P 39-Airacobra used as trainer and based out of Patterson Field ASBIZ

 

[Zippythehog]

I think the hangars in the background are now the restoration hangar.

 

[Viking1066]

A visiting B-10 of the 30th Bombardment Squadron 1930's JIVE

 

[Viking1066]

March 1943. The Douglas Aircraft plant at El Segundo, California. A24's and SBD's are under final assembly. Note the Chevron Refinery. It looks like the usual afternoon marine layer is rolling in REDD

 

[Wurger]

March 1943. The Douglas Aircraft plant at El Segundo, California. A24's and SBD's are under final assembly. Note the Chevron Refinery. It looks like the usual afternoon marine layer is rolling in REDD
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The Chevron Refinery is a piece of cake , look at the zeppelin there ...

 

[special ed]

Suspect that may be a barrage balloon, but why in MAR 43, and if a blimp, why is it flying over a refinery? It would seem to me to be a safety hazzard should it fall into the refinery.

 

[mjfur]

Suspect that may be a barrage balloon, but why in MAR 43, and if a blimp, why is it flying over a refinery? It would seem to me to be a safety hazzard should it fall into the refinery.

Lots of things fly over refineries, like the aircraft that are built right next too it.

If you look under the Blimp, Douglas BTD Destroyer - Wikipedia

 

[Wurger]

Suspect that may be a barrage balloon, but why in MAR 43, and if a blimp, why is it flying over a refinery? It would seem to me to be a safety hazzard should it fall into the refinery.

Certainly it can be the barrage balloon as well. With the quality of the pic and the view form the front it is quite difficult to state what kind of the airship it may be. Judging by its altitude I'm gona agree that's the kind of it.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Martin's revolutionary bomber attracted instant attention everywhere it went. (Once again, Boeing Field, and once again, August 1936 JIVE

 

[SaparotRob]

Love that thing. I guess I'm a bomber guy. You know, bring the whole gang along!

 

[Viking1066]

Dutch 'Glenn Martins' over Malaya with, interestingly, one of only a few RAAF Wirraways sent there. The bombers are Martin 166, or 139 WH3 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

USS SARATOGA (CV-3), USS LEXINGTON (CV-2), USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) flagship anchored off Colon, Canal Zone, on 27 April 1934, during the fleet's annual inter-ocean movement HISN

 

[Viking1066]

31st Pursuit Group Bell P 39-Airacobra at Selfridge Field Michigan ASBIZ

 

[cammerjeff]

31st Pursuit Group Bell P 39-Airacobra at Selfridge Field Michigan ASBIZ
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Nice shot of very early P-39's, they look to be unarmed, and taken at the airfield about 30 miles from my home. Still an active ANG and Navy Reserve base.

The picture must have been taken sometime between February ( the unit was activated 1 Feb 1940 ) and March/April 1940 judging by the national markings.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Dutch Catalinas at San Diego ready for the delivery 1941 STUR

 

[Viking1066]

Newly trained gunners seen here on a B-10 gunnery course on Java STUR

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

USAAF built Cut Bank AFB in Montana on a Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Here a Flying Fortress comes in during a training flight 1942 REDD