Picture of the day.

[Warspite63]

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'In case of severe constipation, take two Scheissegranaten......'

 

[GTX]

Max was desperate to deal with his constipation once and for all…

 

[Viking1066]

Max was desperate to deal with his constipation once and for all…

"Mad' Max or "Blue' Max?

 

[MiTasol]

That girl next to the ambulance looks familiar.

Classmate? Or simply a neighbor?

This one? What makes you think that?

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

I was so hoping to hear some fascinating family saga...

I think the girl next to the ambulance had a fascinating family saga...

 

[MiTasol]

There seem to be a lot of photos of these two ATA pilots. Lettice Curtis on the left? Pauline Gower on the right?

The one in the middle seems to dislike the photographer and the two above look totally bored with the whole photo shoot.

 

[MiTasol]

Another group of women at war. These far happier aviatrix's are in front of a Royal Navy Stinson but the uniform has USAAF shoulder patches. And there is even a natural blonde in the group, a very rare sight these days.

 

[bf109xxl]

I think the girl next to the ambulance had a fascinating family saga...

Everyone knows this saga - I expected something exclusive like "How my grandpa almost won the heart of a future world leader".

 

[Capt. Vick]

Ah! No...just a jape!

 

[Snautzer01]

Another group of women at war. These far happier aviatrix's are in front of a Royal Navy Stinson but the uniform has USAAF shoulder patches. And there is even a natural blonde in the group, a very rare sight these days.

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Usaaf air ferrying division

 

[Elvis]

Usaaf air ferrying division

Wasps

 

[Snautzer01]

Wasps

 

[drgondog]

The DC-10's direct competitor, the L-1011, did not seem to suffer any of the McD's problems. No cargo door and fuselage design errors resulting in a fatal crash. No engine blowing up and taking out all the hydraulics, resulting in a fatal crash. No engine falling off the wing and jamming the leading edge slats, resulting in a fatal crash. I can only think of two L-1011 fatal crashes. One was in the Everglades, where the flight crew was so busy troubleshooting a fault light that they forgot to fly the airplane. The other was at DFW, where it flew into wind shear that probably was unsurvivable regardless; going into a holding pattern until the storm cleared was likely the only answer. I recall reading of an L-1011 that had to divert to Tampa on a flight from LAX to Miami because the tank with the broken fuel quantity indictor was empty and the flight engineer checked the wrong tank to confirm it had fuel, but once again that was an aircrew problem

Interesting connection for me. I dated one of the daughters of the Flight engineer, Repo, in high school. They lived across the street in Gables by the Sea. The legend that his image was frequently seen in the future led to the Ghost of 401 legends. She claimed she often saw her father for several years.

When the 1-1011 crashed at DFW with Conner at the controls, my best friend (captain Bill Poddick flying trailing the Delta 727 with future wife onboard) diverted to OKC. I was I-635 about 100 yards behind a man who had his head taken off by the MLG of the 1011 - standing on the north shoulder - as the 1011 hit the water storage tank and spun, throwing the broken aft section to the west. Most of the survivors were in the tail section.

There was a serious accident that 100% stopped traffic and the guy was just standing there in the driving rain looking down runway 18L.

The down burst over DFW was epic.

ATC only gave orders to divert about the same time as the crash. The Delta crew in the 1011 was caught in a severe downdraft, on final, hit the ground which activated the squat switch (post accident report). Just before hitting the ground, Conner applied full throttle and pulled back on yoke when the downdraft quit locally, stalled out and hit again with right wing down short of the water storage tank.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Interesting connection for me. I dated one of the daughters of the Flight engineer, Repo, in high school. They lived across the street in Gables by the Sea. The legend that his image was frequently seen in the future led to the Ghost of 401 legends. She claimed she often saw her father for several years.

When the 1-1011 crashed at DFW with Conner at the controls, my best friend (captain Bill Poddick flying trailing the Delta 727 with future wife onboard) diverted to OKC. I was I-635 about 100 yards behind a man who had his head taken off by the MLG of the 1011 - standing on the north shoulder - as the 1011 hit the water storage tank and spun, throwing the broken aft section to the west. Most of the survivors were in the tail section.

There was a serious accident that 100% stopped traffic and the guy was just standing there in the driving rain looking down runway 18L.

The down burst over DFW was epic.

ATC only gave orders to divert about the same time as the crash. The Delta crew in the 1011 was caught in a severe downdraft, on final, hit the ground which activated the squat switch (post accident report). Just before hitting the ground, Conner applied full throttle and pulled back on yoke when the downdraft quit locally, stalled out and hit again with right wing down short of the water storage tank.

In the small world category, just one week to the day before the DFW crash, the company I was working for sent me to Dallas to help with software problems. I was on a DC-9/MD-80 (whichever, can't remember) landing at Dallas and as we began turning on final we apparently hit a bit of wind shear as the plane shook BAD and literally fell to the right. I looked over the aisle to the starboard wing and saw the ground coming straight at me for about a second. All I remember is the guy next to me, a civilian pilot I'd been chatting with said "Oh SHIT!".

LOUD roaring from Pratt & Whitney and some g forces, pilot got wings level and a go around, I made sure to thank him when disembarking. NOT something I ever want to experience again.

 

[MiTasol]

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Good one Snautzer
Does that site have any of the other photos I have posted. I am getting all these from a friend who is forwarding them to me and I suspect they are from a website. I checked 5 or 6 on Tineye and could not find them.

Anyhow - here are two more photos of women at war.

Packing or unpacking an RAF Mustang - my guess from the clothing is packing in the US.

Hawker Hurricane. At a repair centre? And another natural blonde.

 

[MiTasol]

And the one I just got lead me to another site that has 219 pages of (mainly?) aircraft photos. They may come from this site but so far the random pages I have looked at are all black and white and watermarked so probably not.

ww2images archive

Explore ww2images archive’s 21,820 photos on Flickr!

flickr.com

 

[MiTasol]

Last one for today - no paint overspray on her hands, nothing to keep overspray from her hair, etc so this appears to be very staged. And no masking of the red in the roundel. And a top she would not want overspray on.

 

[special ed]

Good one Snautzer
Does that site have any of the other photos I have posted. I am getting all these from a friend who is forwarding them to me and I suspect they are from a website. I checked 5 or 6 on Tineye and could not find them.

Anyhow - here are two more photos of women at war.

Packing or unpacking an RAF Mustang - my guess from the clothing is packing in the US.
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Hawker Hurricane. At a repair centre? And another natural blonde.
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Note internal wing structure painted gray, rather than chromate

 

[MiTasol]

To me the ones with chromate appear to be repairs so that means my post above must be factory - look how rough and ready the painting was on the photo in post 25,067. Mask the oleo piston and roughly spray everything else.

The Canandian Hurricane I worked on in the 60s had all the steel parts stove blacked. I cannot remember what colour the alloy parts were.

 

[MIflyer]

Nice shot of a 397 BG B-26 at airfield A-72, Jan 1945 By the way, the other engine is named "groan."