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[Frog]

 

[special ed]

8th Pursuit Group pilots scramble to P-39Ds, Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York, November 1941.

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Note the overpainted war games insignia.

 

[Viking1066]

Crews posing with their Lioré and Olivier LéO 451 Istres-Le Tubé AB Groupe de Bombardement I/12 1940 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Crew portrait of a USAAF Catalina crew assigned to the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron operating from Halesworth in Suffolk, England the net

 

[Viking1066]

Consolidated Model 32 RY-3 Privateer C. Mk. IX (1), (Serial No. JT973) the net

 

[Viking1066]

Bomb Detail on Espirito Santo 1942 photo 2 the net

 

[Viking1066]

B-29s at North Field Guam of 29th BG and 19 BG of 314 BW photo 12 the net

 

[CATCH 22]

Consolidated Model 32 RY-3 Privateer C. Mk. IX (1), (Serial No. JT973) the net
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"Rockcliffe Ice Wagon" is an RCAF bird on loan from the RAF, former USN RY-3 BuNo 90021. Used in icing research and de-icing trials, hence the name.
Rockcliffe is the old military and civil airport/base in Ottawa. Nowadays the great Canada Aviation and Space Museum is situated there.

 

[Zippythehog]

Bomb Detail on Espirito Santo 1942 photo 2 the net
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Are those EGT probes on the exhaust?

 

[fannum]

Fighting Squadron (VF) 2 - flying F6C-2 Hawks the net
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I feel that we tend to overlook the presence and importance of the Curtiss aircraft company between the wars and the prominence, variety and importance of their versatile Hawk series of same basic design aircraft, serving military as attack fighters, dive bombers, observation/liaison and racers. The biplanes also flew as parasol monoplanes; with all types of landing gear: with pants, retractable, floats and skis; all types of engines: inline, Vee, radial, super and turbocharged; for all three US services, civil and dozens of export buyers.
Designations included: A-3, P-1, P-3, P-6, P-17, P-23, F6C, F-11C, BF2C, O-1, O-39, civil Gulfhawk 1a as well as many experimental/trial IDs.

Udet's fascination with Hawk II is considered reason Germans focused on dive bombing, especially development of Junkers Stuka.

Iconic Army

Exceptional Navy

First of series of three Al Williams promotional Gulfhawks; He also won 1923 Pulitzer race as Navy Lieutenant flying Curtiss R6C-1 racer.

 

[cammerjeff]

Are those EGT probes on the exhaust?

Zippy it looks like a fire detection loop to my eyes, probably for detecting an exhaust overheat, but if it is a FD loop it would be attached to a warning light and horn, not a guage, as it is really on on/off type of switch, but I have never seen on mounted on a surface exposed to the external air flow. Usually they are in engine compartments, or accessory sections of nacelle's or wheel wells.

Here is a picture of a modern version on an A320 engine

 

[MiTasol]

Are those EGT probes on the exhaust?

No, piston engines of the day did not have EGT systems.

They did have exhaust gas analysers but those do not look like the normal probes to me and there was normally only one probe so I am not sure what they are.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of VS-42 and VS-41 aboard USS Ranger (CV-4), November 1941.

 

[syscom3]

Test pilot Ralph Burwell Virden. On 4 November 1941, he perishes while testing the first Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, US Army Air Force serial 39-689. The plane breaks apart during a power dive as it approaches supersonic speeds and crashes in Glendale, California.