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[Zippythehog]

Experimental Northrop A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia,
3 April 1940.

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The propeller looks comically small. They must've spun it fast to necessitate such dimensions.

 

[MiTasol]

I agree it looks too small but they would not spin it fast because then the outer section will be supersonic and produce very little thrust.

 

[CATCH 22]

B24? The plane, not the pigeon...........

Liberator GR Mk. V, BZ818 'C', of No. 53 Squadron RAF

 

[Warspite63]

Liberator GR Mk. V, BZ818 'C', of No. 53 Squadron RAF

Brilliant - thanks, Sir! And the pigeon?.........

 

[MiTasol]

Maryanne

 

[CATCH 22]

Brilliant - thanks, Sir! And the pigeon?.........

The one in the upper box is a Valencian Figurita, female, called Lisbeth. The one in the lower box is a Spread Ash Pomeranian, male, called Bertie.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!

 

[Capt. Vick]

B24? The plane, not the pigeon...........

Yup! I'd recognize that wind deflector anywhere!

 

[Glider]

Experimental Northrop A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia,
3 April 1940.

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That prop definitely doesn't look right

 

[MiTasol]

I have a suspicion that we are looking at an "optical dissolutionment" as one of my old bosses would say.

I suspect that if someone with CAD skills was to compare that prop with the prop on a typical A-17A at the same magnification they would find it is the normal prop and visually "distorted" in our brains by the size of the spinner.

 

[syscom3]

That's why it was experimental. LOL

 

[hawkeye2an]

Lancaster III ND759, one of fourteen aircraft whose mission was to attack factories in Friedrichshafen on 27th / 28th April 1944.
The Lancaster ditched on Lake Constance, Switzerland. It was to stay there until 1954 when it was recovered. It was scrapped
a year later.

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There are better ways to hunt for submarines !!!!!

 

[hw97karbine]

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 in flight over Germany during trials in early 1940

 

[fannum]

Great Tempest pix!

 

[fannum]

A reminder why "Turning swords into plowshares" never has quite worked out ...

 

[mjfur]

A reminder why "Turning swords into plowshares" never has quite worked out ...
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Reno 2010, Thunder Mustang N151G Flipping lucky: The racing pilot who emerged unscathed after his WWII replica plane smashed into pieces on take-off

 

[hw97karbine]

Hawker P.1019 Fury prototype LA610 powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon 85 driving contra-rotating propellers

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[syscom3]

RNZAF SBD's on an unidentified airfield in the Solomon Islands.

 

[hw97karbine]

French troops examine the remains of a Heinkel He 111 shot down over Lorraine in early 1940

 

[syscom3]

Henry Ford II on the tug as the last B-24 Liberator comes off the assembly line at Willow
Run. June 28 1945.