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[Frog]

Picture from Private Carlo Rotti (ASN 39707493), 620th Military Police Escort Guard Company, IX th US Army.

Do you like the scant stock ?

 

[Airframes]

"Ah, but Romeo, neigh ........."
I've got me coat !

 

[Greg Boeser]

Don't do it, Romeo!
I hear she' a real nag.

 

[syscom3]

B-18 bombers of the 5th Bomb Group during exercises near Hawaii.

 

[GTX]

Aeroflot VMV-3 semi-trailer was designed to clear freshly-fallen snow on Soviet airfields. The rig had a pair of Ivchenko AI-20 turboprops mounted coaxially on pylons amidships, fuel supply came from the "Aeroflot" marked rear tank. In operation those propellers created two strong air streams directed to the left and right of the machine.

 

[GTX]

January 16, 1942, Winston Churchill on his return trip to the UK after meeting Roosevelt.

 

[CATCH 22]

January 16, 1942, Winston Churchill on his return trip to the UK after meeting Roosevelt.

And here's the plane he was flying: a B-314A, coded G-AGCA - Berwick, former NC 18607, Boeing c/n 2081:

 

[SaparotRob]

And here's the plane he was flying: a B-314A, coded G-AGCA Berwick:
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As the British say, travel well.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

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January 16, 1942, Winston Churchill on his return trip to the UK after meeting Roosevelt.

He never gained his license but never missed an opportunity.

 

[Snautzer01]

Most feared weopon was Hansl playing a solo on this wunderwaffe

 

[WARSPITER]

I always found he harped on a bit.

 

[Wurger]

Yep .. its ultrasound tears the soviet T-34s to shreds.

 

[syscom3]

Canadian Douglas Digby (B-18 Bolo) RCAF 751 in flight.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

The Aerogypt "safety aeroplane" was designed and built by Saleh Helmy, an egyptian engineer. With the British civil registration G-AFFGfirst flew at Heston aerodrome in west London in 1938. It incorporated an additional aerofoil section on top of the fuselage which could be raised as a landing flap and also had a slow speed automatic slot at the front.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

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The Aerogypt "safety aeroplane" was designed and built by Saleh Helmy, an egyptian engineer. With the British civil registration G-AFFGfirst flew at Heston aerodrome in west London in 1938. It incorporated an additional aerofoil section on top of the fuselage which could be raised as a landing flap and also had a slow speed automatic slot at the front.

The aesthetics can be explained because of the French presence in Egypt.

 

[syscom3]

USS Biloxi. Personnel inspection on the ship's afterdeck, during her shakedown period, circa October 1943. Note
her aircraft catapults, with Curtiss SO3C floatplanes on top, and her hangar hatch cover.

 

[GTX]

Is it just me or does this have a Dragonfly look?

 

[Warspite63]

Ju-88 ground school.

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'Lads, NEVER use this setting for woolens ...... they'll shrink. Now for cottons,.........'

 

[Vic Balshaw]

'Lads, NEVER use this setting for woolens ...... they'll shrink. Now for cottons,.........'

You have obviously been well briefed...................