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[michaelmaltby]

"... The DC-5 entered service with the U.S. Navy and seven were built as R3Ds. Three R3D-1s became 16-seat personnel carriers, and the four R3D-2s with the U.S. Marine Corps became 22-seat paratrooper versions of the plane."
[Boeing Website -Historical ]

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

B-26s lined up at Kingman AFB awaiting disposal, February 1947

 

[Capt. Vick]

I'll take 3 please. One to play with, one to pack away and one to tale apart and see how it works.

 

[SaparotRob]

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I'm thinking of the X-mas song "Walking in a Winter Wonderland".

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Heating up the engine. This is a lend lease A20 havoc in Alaska on the way to Russia. Note the bomb bay fuel tank.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[nuuumannn]

The Fiat CR.42 was an older Italian fighter used by the Corpo Aereo Italiano.

They weren't that old, actually, younger in fact than the Hurricanes that attacked them over Britain. The CR-42's first flight was in 1938 and it entered service a year later with the Italian Air Force.

 

[nuuumannn]

looks rather sad beached there waiting to be wrecked but thats progress i suppose

There might still be hope for it, although unlikely. A private consortium has entered negotiations with the scrappers in the vain hope of preserving it as a hotel in Goa, which the city officials in Goa are keen on, but it's a long shot, to be frank. It's the second attempt at preservation as the first one, done before it was sold to the scrappie evaluated its condition and deemed structurally unsound for preservation.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

They weren't that old, actually, younger in fact than the Hurricanes that attacked them over Britain. The CR-42's first flight was in 1938 and it entered service a year later with the Italian Air Force.

In my defense Nuuumannn, I just posted the info that was with the photo. I do know that is a bit lazy on my part. LOL And I do appreciate the extra info on your part.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Glider]

Interesting combination of half tracks. I wonder what the Germans thought about them side by side

 

[syscom3]

B-17 Flying Fortress of the 379th BG and a mobile "tower" trailer. Note that an upper turret was reused and attached to the trailer.

 

[Capt. Vick]

From the website IMGUR

 

[Wurger]

 

[nuuumannn]

I just posted the info that was with the photo.

Hi Aaron, yes, I know this and if I comment it's certainly not intended as an attack on you at all, so I hope you don't intend it that way. I like to post info for info's sake, rather than as a deliberate correction, what with all the fake news and false information out there. It is great to see these pics you post though.