Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (3 Viewers)

[MIflyer]

This is a very nice picture of the P-47 assigned to 56FG Col Schilling, equipped with rocket tubes. Picture Credit Mark H Brown via the book WWII Fighters.

 

[MIflyer]

Something a bit unusual in this shot of 357th FG CO Col Chickering's P-39 being cranked up at Hamilton Field in July 1943. What is unusual is that the ground crew is using a crank inserted into the inertia starter of the V-1710 to start the airplane. I don;t think I have ever seen a picture of that before. The famous 357th trained in P-39's before being sent to the ETO to fly P-51B's. NASM photo.

 

[MIflyer]

P-51D of the 364thFG at Honington in the UK. Those are drop tank crates in the background. Phtt Credit Mark H Borwn via the book WWII Fighters.

 

[special ed]

Something a bit unusual in this shot of 357th FG CO Col Chickering's P-39 being cranked up at Hamilton Field in July 1943. What is unusual is that the ground crew is using a crank inserted into the inertia starter of the V-1710 to start the airplane. I don;t think I have ever seen a picture of that before. The famous 357th trained in P-39's before being sent to the ETO to fly P-51B's. NASM photo.

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Exhaust blast looks nasty for the mechs.

 

[MIflyer]

Exhaust blast looks nasty for the mechs.

A friend of mine who was a crewmember on USN PB4Y-2 said that in order to start the engines on the ground someone had to go out on the wing and push a button on each engine. The first time he did that the exhaust blast was so extensive that he stuck a fire extinguisher in it, thinking it had caught fire.

I knew that the PT-13/17 was usually was started by cranking the inertia starter, and I think the special lightweight version of the P-40 had one also, but I did not know the P-39 was so equipped. Of course there are well known movies of BF-109E being started by ground crew cranking the starter.

A friend of mine had one of those starters on his Waco biplane R-670 engine. The starter could be spun up by either a hand crank or the electric motor. First you spun it up and then you hit the "Engage" button. The location where you'd have had to stand on his airplane was such that using a crank was just about impossible.

 

[Viking1066]

The Lancer was shipped to China where it operated with both the Chinese Air Force and the USAAF. Here one from each service share the ramp at Kunming INHG

 

[Viking1066]

USAAC P-35 in temporary camouflage for the 1940 Louisiana war games. The camouflage was water-based and applied by brush, no two aircraft carried the same pattern INHG

 

[Viking1066]

USS Philippine Sea at Gibraltar early 1948 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers Ju 87D Stuka 7.StG1 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Junkers Ju 87B2 Picchiatelli RA 97 Gruppo 238a Squadriglia red 11 Italy Feb 1941 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

US amphibious warfare ships USS Makin Island (LHD-8) USS New Orleans (LPD-18) and USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52) 2011 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. Navy Douglas A-4B Skyhawk intercepting a Soviet Navy Beriev Be-6 north of Japan in 1964 USNA

 

[cammerjeff]

Junkers Ju 87B2 Picchiatelli RA 97 Gruppo 238a Squadriglia red 11 Italy Feb 1941 ASBIZ
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Is that Ju87 missing its left wingtip?

 

[Viking1066]

Is that Ju87 missing its left wingtip?

Yes sir it is.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-27 of the 84th Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai Canton 1939 ELPO

 

[Viking1066]

Regia Aeronautica Fiat BR.20 Cicogna front air gunner with the Breda SAFAT 7.7mm ASBIZ

 

[MIflyer]

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.

 

[Airframes]

Both the same type of tank, just the lighting, and relatively poor quality of the colour reproduction of a reproduction making them look different.
"Belle of Belmont" is on my list as another P-47 model.

 

[Viking1066]

The APM-series magnetic anomaly detector in the tail sting of a Be-12 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Fiat CR-42 Falco RSWAF F9.1Sqn White 11 Sweden 1941 ASBIZ