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[cammerjeff]

Wow hard to believe anyone got out of that B-26!

 

[syscom3]

Nicknamed "Vosne-Romanée " from Groupe de Bombardement 1/32 Bourgogne.
Shot down on february 14, 1945 over the Rhine river.
4 survivors.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrLD2i2Y6RjBbcb76Yk24lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzYEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1671746614/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2faviateurs.e-monsite.com%2fpages%2fde-1939-a-1945%2fla-tragedie-du-vosne-romanee.html/RK=2/RS=5mJlaWza5_sE9BCVZM1JzoLuacM-

Thanks!

 

[manta22]

Nicknamed "Vosne-Romanée " from Groupe de Bombardement 1/32 Bourgogne.
Shot down on february 14, 1945 over the Rhine river.
4 survivors.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrLD2i2Y6RjBbcb76Yk24lQ;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzYEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1671746614/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2faviateurs.e-monsite.com%2fpages%2fde-1939-a-1945%2fla-tragedie-du-vosne-romanee.html/RK=2/RS=5mJlaWza5_sE9BCVZM1JzoLuacM-

Survivors?? WOW!!!

 

[syscom3]

B-18A Bolos of the 38th Recon Squadron at March Field, (Riverside, Calif). April 8th 1939

 

[special ed]

Note the skin wrinkles at the corner of the bombardiers canopy, both planes. Every time you show a B-18A, I'm so thankful we had the Boeing B-17 when we went to war.

 

[cammerjeff]

Those Wrinkles look like ice damage from chunks thrown onto the fuselage by icing of the props. The Shorts 360's I worked on showed damage very mush like that.

I agree that we were lucky we did not have to start the war with B-18's & B-23's!.

 

[Ovod]

Want to see wrinkles on a "fuselage" - try the Apollo lunar module - presumably gained during the stresses of landing on, and then taking of from, the surface of the moon.
The LM brought a whole new meaning to the term lightweight structure:

 

[BEAR VMF257]

Interesting match on the cockpit design

 

[syscom3]

Douglas B-18A Bolo's over Floyd Bennett Field, New York, September 4th 1940

 

[SaparotRob]

Naval Air Station New York (Floyd Bennett Field) sponsored my Sea Explorer Ship when I was in the scouts. I bicycled over that bridge many times.

 

[Capt. Vick]

You can camp there now

 

[SaparotRob]

I wonder if the park still has that P2V.

 

[syscom3]

A Douglas B-18A Bolo of the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron

 

[syscom3]

Four Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplanes atop the catapults of the USS Quincy (CA 39) while she was in the New York City naval
yard. May 29 1942.

 

[syscom3]

On 24th December 1937, the first prototype of Macchi C.200 Saetta (also known as Macchi-Castoldi M.C.200), successfully performed its maiden flight, flown by chief test pilot Giuseppe Burei. The aircraft was designed by Mario Castoldi, an Italian aviation engineer and designer, and proposed as future modern fighter airplane for the Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica).

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

A Curtiss SOC "Seagull" scout-observation aircraft is hoisted on board USS Philadelphia (CL 41), during the North African
operation, November 1942. Note crewmen holding lines to steady the plane as the aircraft crane swings it inboard.

 

[syscom3]

The first production Hawker Hurricane Mk I monoplane fighters with the two-blade fixed pitch wooden propeller are lined
up following delivery to No. 111 Squadron, Royal Air Force Fighter Command, at RAF Northolt, London, United Kingdom,
on 25th December 1937.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Pretty good for 1937

 

[manta22]

This is a report prepared by General MacArthur's staff on the surrender of Japan in 1945 that may be interesting.