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[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[MIflyer]

B-29 of the 899th Bomb Sqdrn Colorized Photo

 

[syscom3]

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[Vic Balshaw]

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M'mmm! Great pic.

 

[GTX]

 

[MIflyer]

Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[bf109xxl]

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Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.

P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.
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P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

Cool pics are always welcome. No matter how many times they get reposted.

 

[bf109xxl]

Cool pics are always welcome. No matter how many times they get reposted.

This is actually a fake from the pre-photoshop era (photo collage), but the story is true. On June 4, 1965, Soviet pilot Valentin Privalov flew his MiG-17 under a bridge over the Ob River in Novosibirsk. Here's a real photo of this "stuntman":

 

[MIflyer]

I recall going into a hobby shop back in the mid-60's that was also a slot car track and being astonished by an ITC model of that Curtiss condor biplane airliner.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

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Hard to imagine an airplane with more classic 1930's styling features than the Ryan SCW. Used by the CAP for ASW patrols in WW2, they are very rare today.

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1 impressed into USAAC service as the L-10 at the start of WWII

 

[hawkeye2an]

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Always seemed to me to be such an odd duck with that lovely streamlined fuselage only to give it all away with the rigging

 

[Elvis]

Continuing the topic of passing under the bridge.
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P.S. I apologize if this has been posted here over a thousand times already.

Looks like it should be the cover of Tom Swift and his Turbine Powered Washing Machine