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syscom3
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A B-32 fuselage hangs from a monorail on the roof of the Consolidated Vultee factory in Fort Worth, Texas, January 1945
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A little cold for the swing.
The DC-3 is a simply beautiful airplane. But I guess that Douglas decided that bombers HAD to be ugly, even when they are using the same wing....So That's where the C-47 got their rudders!
B,F&U!A pair of Douglas B-18 Bolo's of the 88th RS, 1st RG. The stadium below and the hilly terrain indicates that they were flying above Pasadena, California.
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That would be a great model build. Looks like 2 PBY in a two tone camo and the rest is three color. Most of the Hellcats look like bark blue, a couple may be the three color and several have a band on the nose. Cannot tell about the duck. Lots of weathering on the PBYs.The USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) ferrying inoperable aircraft to NAS Alameda, 8 July 1944. Visible onboard are eight PBY Catalina flying boats, eighteen F6F Hellcat fighters, and a J2F Duck amphibious biplane.
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Wow, in '39?!
I would've thought the idea for mounting a 75mm would've come much later.