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[Elvis]

The Mayflower Hotel was a landmark in Columbus Oh10

My sister was born there, while Dad was stationed at some airbase out there (which no longer exists).
Mom remembered the department store in Columbus that had the "air doors".

...but getting back to the subject at hand...

Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega 5C, NR965Y, at Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii, 11 January 1935. (Getty Images/Underwood Archives)
Read the rest of the story, here -> 11–12 January 1935 | This Day in Aviation

 

[Warspite63]

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Spitfire Mk Vc, French Squadron 345 (Groupe de Chasse II/2), Shoreham Airfield, flown by lieutenant Kerourio, shot down by flak and killed as a captain on februay 8, 1945 flying Spitfire IX PL202.

Notice an incongrious Supermarine Sea Otter in the background.

'Umm, Captain ... am pretty sure that's not the sea ......'

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Bretoal2]

'Umm, Captain ... am pretty sure that's not the sea ......'

Well, he did bring out his training wheels, you never know...

 

[Viking1066]

F6F Hellcats prepare for raid on Tarawa 1943 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Vought Corsair on HMS Formidable. The bombs are for Barracuda bombers. August 1944 DEST

 

[Viking1066]

Supermarine Seafire Mk.IIC on HMS Formidable while at Gibraltar DEST

 

[seesul]

B-17G 42-31473 of the 301st Bombardment Group, 353rd BS

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99 BG. It's a short time lived 5BW marking used in March '44 where all the 5BW Forts had Y in a square above the serial and number under the serial belonged to the group. 1=2BG, 2=97BG, 3=99BG, and 4=301 BG. When 463BF and 483 BG were added to 5BW, this marking was abandoned.

 

[Viking1066]

Formation of Dauntlesses from the USS Yorktown (CV-5) seen in the pre-war overall light gray scheme INHG

 

[Viking1066]

F4B-4, one of the classic fighters of the interwar era, in flight near Fleet Air Base Pearl Harbor, Oahu 1934 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 10AF 80FG89FS Burma Banshee Lineup at Nagaghuli Assam ASBIZ

 

[syscom3]

A new American-built single-seat Mustang fighter plane for the British Royal Air Force is put through a test flight before delivery to the British Allies, on January 13, 1941, at Inglewood, California.

At this point in time, the North American P-51 Mustang is flying with the Allison engine. Eventually the airframe will be tested with the Rolls-Royce/Packard Merlin — and a legend will be born.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Zippythehog]

Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 10AF 80FG89FS Burma Banshee Lineup at Nagaghuli Assam ASBIZ
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Miss Frances III's driver is going to have a hot butt.

 

[CATCH 22]

Found this amazing photo (hope this is the real one and not a colorized modern copy). The SNJ-2 is well known but what is GB-2? It's in fact the US Navy version of the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing. Some of them have been transferred to the USAAF under the designation UC-43.

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And another GB-1 in a 2-tone camouflage and nat. insignia in 6 positions:

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver VS-6 USS Enterprise 1940 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Northrop P-61 Black Widow "Lovely Lady" REDD

 

[Viking1066]

On a Bouge-class carrier are Dauntlesses, Hellcats, and Avengers summer of 1943 INHG

 

[syscom3]

Pilot Officer Mirosław Orzechowski, one of the Polish pilots serving with No. 607 Squadron RAF,
standing on a wing of a Hurricane at RAF Usworth, 14 January 1941. He was known as "Shrimp"
on account of his diminutive stature and treated as the Squadron's mascot.

 

[syscom3]

Polish pilots serving with No. 607 Squadron RAF studying maps on the back wing of a Hurricane
as part of their training at RAF Usworth, 14 January 1941. One of the identified airmen is Pilot
Officer Mirosław Orzechowski (fourth from the left).