Picture of the day.

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[MIflyer]

B-29 of the 899th Bomb Sqdrn Colorized Photo

 

[syscom3]

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[Vic Balshaw]

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M'mmm! Great pic.

 

[GTX]

 

[MIflyer]

Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[bf109xxl]

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Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.

P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.
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P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

Cool pics are always welcome. No matter how many times they get reposted.

 

[bf109xxl]

Cool pics are always welcome. No matter how many times they get reposted.

This is actually a fake from the pre-photoshop era (photo collage), but the story is true. On June 4, 1965, Soviet pilot Valentin Privalov flew his MiG-17 under a bridge over the Ob River in Novosibirsk. Here's a real photo of this "stuntman":

 

[MIflyer]

I recall going into a hobby shop back in the mid-60's that was also a slot car track and being astonished by an ITC model of that Curtiss condor biplane airliner.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

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Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

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1 impressed into USAAC service as the L-10 at the start of WWII

 

[hawkeye2an]

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Always seemed to me to be such an odd duck with that lovely streamlined fuselage only to give it all away with the rigging

 

[Elvis]

Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.
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P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

Looks like it should be the cover of Tom Swift and his Turbine Powered Washing Machine

 

[Snautzer01]

Soldier painting emblem desert Derna N4521U

Orig. Foto DAK Soldat mit Schild am Eingang Lazarett DERNA in Afrika 1941 | eBay

Originalfoto: DAK Soldat mit Schild am Eingang des Kriegslazarett Derna in Afrika, ca. 1941. Rückseitig beschrieben: nein. der Nachschub-Kolonnen-Abteilung 533 des DAK in Afrika, ca. 1941-'43. Die Schriftzug "crainsmilitaria" oder weitere digitale Bildbearbeitung dient als Kopierschutz und ist...

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[syscom3]

A P-38 in Portuguese service.

 

[MIflyer]

A P-38 in Portuguese service.

Some P-38's and P-39's flying from GB to Africa for Operation Torch had problems and with drop tank fuel feeds and landed in Spain and Portugal. In his book "Happy jack's Go Buggy" Jack Ifry described landing his P-38 in Spain and then escaping. Note the P-39 to the Right of the P-38.

 

[syscom3]

This is a general view into the main assembly hall of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation plant at Burbank, Calif., on November 24, 1939. It shows some of the
250 twin-engine Lockheed Hudson bombers being rushed to completion for the British Royal Air Force.

 

[Wurger]