Picture of the day.

[syscom3]

Ground crew of 303rd BG, 359th BS with B-17F 41-24603 Green Hornet.
This B17 went MIA on Jan 23 1943 while on a mission to bomb the port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Three engines were knocked out by flak over the target and then it was shot down by FW-190 fighters. All the crew bailed out but the Pilot and Co-Pilot stayed with the aircraft because they only had one usable parachute between them and made a crash landing at Kergolay near Motreff, France The Tail Gunner, SSgt Joseph L. Markiewicz had been wounded but managed to bail out and was captured, but he died of his wounds on 12-Feb-43. (5 POW, 1 POW - DIC, 4 EVD)

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[syscom3]

303rd Bomb Group B-17s lined up ready for take-off. Note the two P47's. And the B17's are taxiing with the inboard engines turned off.

 

[Wurger]

 

[special ed]

Is that a UC-78 bamboo bomber hiding in the hangar?

 

[at6]

Is that a UC-78 bamboo bomber hiding in the hangar?

The tail feathers would indicate that.

 

[Snautzer01]

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[syscom3]

Four Crew Members of the 401St Bomb Group in front of their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress 'Hell's Angel' at an 8Th Air Force Base in England, on January 20, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

A plane handler giving the signal, "Lock tailwheel," to an F6F pilot aboard USS Tulagi (CVE-72) off the coast of Southern France, August 1944.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

The Hellcats are from Squadron VOF-1.

 

[SaparotRob]

A plane handler giving the signal, "Lock tailwheel," to an F6F pilot aboard USS Tulagi (CVE-72) off the coast of Southern France, August 1944.

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How are the plane handlers signals different from then to now? Does this gesture, if used today, still apply or does it have a different meaning?

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[syscom3]

Typhoon Cobra (Halsey's Typhoon), December 17th 1944. TBM Avenger spotted on the flight deck of USS Anzio (CVE-57) where it rode out the typhoon which carried away several other planes similarly lashed down.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

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It flew...

 

[Wurger]

The Union Rotorplane ...

the source: the net

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

The Union Rotorplane ...

Never heard about it

 

[Wurger]

Never heard about it

Designed in 1931 by Isaac C. Popper and John B. Guest for the Union Aircraft Corporation in Long Island NY. Four conical spindles in an open frame replaced the wings and were driven by two additional 28 hp Indian (motorcycle) engines. The two large rotors in front produced lift and the small rotors acted as stabilizer.

A landing speed between 5 and 10 mph was estimated by Popper. The rotor airplane was an experiment to create lift based on the Magnus effect. Although the designer claimed it had double the lifting power of conventional wings and could land at half the speed, there is no record of actual flight.

http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs/Climatechange/Flettner%20ship/Seifert%20Flettner%20apps.pdf

 

[bdefen]

How not the use the Panzerschrek


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I thought bassoons were supposed to be used for kindling for the oboe fire?