This MS 406 belonged to 6eme Escadrille, Groupe Chasse III/6 (it was formerly assigned to GC 1/2 Cigognes).
Pilot : Sergeant Miroslav Jiroudek (Czeck) accidented june 12, 1940.
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Pilot : Sergeant Miroslav Jiroudek (Czeck) accidented june 12, 1940.
Nice shots!
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syscom3
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USS Manila Bay (CVE-61) en route from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, 24–31 August 1944, with 14 PBJ-1D Mitchells from VMB 611 and three JM-1 Marauders
Viking1066
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Curtiss F11C-2 (BF2C-2) Goshawk Fighter (BUNO 9282 1933-1934 while serving with Fighter Squadron 1B (VF-1B). Note the squadron's "High Hat" emblem the net
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The McDonnell Moonbat was powered by a pair of experimental turbocharged Continental XI-1430 engines the net
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The operator eases the new engine into position, technicians have erected a forest of work stands under this Fort Espirito Santo 1942 the net
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That would make an interesting diorama.
Looking at a high-res scan of that same negative, it's interesting to see all the Helldivers piling up outside the Curtiss-Wright building in the background. Fascinating to think that just across the field there, just a few months earlier CW rolled out its own advanced fighter prototype, XP-55. The programs had been going on in parallel, with wooden mockups in mid-1942 and rollouts of prototypes in mid- to late-1943. In fact there are photos of XP-55 taken on the CW ramp the same day that XP-67 was across the river at Scott Field (where XP-55 would also be, very soon) making its first flight on 6 January 1944. How cool would it be to find a photo of both prototypes in the same image?
Zippythehog
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I don't think I've ever seen this. What a handsome airplane. I see lines of the B-1 bomber in it.
MIflyer
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Any theories out there as to why it does not have a radar pod?
Oh yes it does ...
But that's what happens when AI helps colorize a photo. Even the emblem on the engine cowling was replaced with the number "10". It had to be insanely difficult for the soft to find the correct colours. 
Viking1066
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Grumman FF-1 Fighter BUNO 9359) of circa 1933-1934 while serving with Fighter Squadron 5B (VF-5B) the net
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The Fort is in the Hawaiian Air Depot Scheme, one of only about two dozen B-17Es which wore it Espirito Santo 1942 the net
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A worker poses with a brand-new Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone engine, giving an excellent view of details of the engine the net
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A U.S. Navy PBM Mariner of Fleet Air Wing 6 is hoisted aboard the USS Curtiss (AV-4) following a mine hunting patrol off North Korea in 1950s the net
Elvis
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My dad always used to say "hot to go" (usually posed as a question). I always thoguht it was broken english he picked up during his time in Japan, but maybe it was just a popular saying of that time?
special ed
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Anyone contemplating a diorama, don't forget the guy eating lunch
Michael Hope
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To it looks like he is guarding the propeller dome shell with lifting handle, and the internal cams with the piston on the bottom. I assume they are cleaning out contamination during an engine change.
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Members of the ground crew paint victory bar number 44 on the rudder of Erich Schmidt`s "Yellow 11,"
Surash, Bf 109F, 27 August 1941.
Surash, Bf 109F, 27 August 1941.
