Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (10 Viewers)

[SaparotRob]

Tachikawa Ki-77 2nd long range experimental transport July 1943 downed over Indain Ocean REDD
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Beautiful airplane.

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi A6M2 Model 21 Zero fighters aboard the light aircraft carrier Zuihō in October of 1942, prior to the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-45s of the 71st Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai at Kallang Airfield, Singapore, in September 1945 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Kawanishi H8K2 no.426 at Kanoya NAB WINS

 

[Viking1066]

Kawanishi N1k2-J in Shima Prefecture WINS

 

[Viking1066]

WO Takeo Tagata prepares to board his Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien 'Tony' fighter of the Rensei Boukutai No 1, 8th Rensei Hikotai, Heito REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Lt Hachiro Yanagisawa posing by the cockpit of an early production A6M2 Zero Model 21 of Kasumigaura Kokutai, tail code 'カ-103'. FACB

 

[flypaper2222]

XB-24

 

[flypaper2222]

2different style B-24 engine check

 

[flypaper2222]

I know Chinese pilots were trained by the US, but could they have been trained on the heavies? Or is this just a photo
op background?

 

[flypaper2222]

5,

000th B-24 signed by the people who made it possible

 

[flypaper2222]

B-24 front office.

 

[flypaper2222]

Bell P-39 left for pickings.

 

[SaparotRob]

Bell P-39 left for pickings.View attachment 850318

I'm not seeing the nose armor.

 

[special ed]

See what happens when there is no nose armor. Right on Rob.

 

[MiTasol]

XB-24

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I like the engine reflection on the fuselage. Great photo and interesting caption.

 

[MiTasol]

I'm not seeing the nose armor.

This is one part of it arrowed, the rest is bolted to the front of the gearbox and hidden by the Aeroproducts spinner backplate.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima A4N1 type 95 12th Ku SISS

 

[Viking1066]

On 26 and 27 FEB 42 this Jake from Kimikawa Maru conducted a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union's Ust-Bolsheretsk harbor on the Kamchatka Peninsula INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima A4n1 type 95 12th Ku 3-122 SISS