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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[MiTasol]

Another from the induction ppt.

 

[Greg Boeser]

That one's in heat.

 

[GTX]

Ouch!!

 

[cammerjeff]

Ah the Old 757 tail Strike Trick! I remember having to do interim repairs to a few NWA 757's to Ferry them back to MSP for permanent repairs to the stringer's and former's under the quickly removed outer skin panels! Heck we even managed to do the same to at least one A320 during a poorly executed aborted Take off! Supposedly much harder to do on the airbus.
We never had to do those repairs on the older aircraft types that were equipped with tail skids. usually just had to replace the skid plates after doing an inspection of the structure. But I guess the weight and fuel consumption was to great to carry the tail skids around just for that situation.

 

[syscom3]

Spitfire pilots of No. 610 Squadron between sorties at "A" Flight dispersal at Hawkinge, 29 July 1940.

 

[syscom3]

Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3522 of No. 32 Squadron, flown by Pilot Officer Rupert Smythe, taxying at Hawkinge, 29 July 1940.

 

[syscom3]

Assistant section officer Joan Daphne Mary Pearson,
right, talking to a sister officer of the Women's Auxiliary
Air Force, July 29, 1940, has been decorated by Great
Britain for gallantry in dragging an injured pilot from
a plane just before a bomb in the craft exploded. She
was the first service woman to be decorated.

 

[GTX]

Blackburn Dart

 

[Viking1066]

The Brewsters had arrived in the early summer. This picture was taken around Juli '41 on Java when ML-KNIL was working STUR

 

[Viking1066]

A Nimrod lands on Furious 1930's HERF

 

[Viking1066]

A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk VI (AE626) of the Middle East Communications Flight flying over the Egyptian pyramids, 1942 REDD

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

USS SARATOGA at the fleet concentration, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, 16 February 1932 HISN

 

[syscom3]

Swooping almost to the ground at 100 miles an hour, a Stinson Reliant plane is shown demonstrating on July 30, 1940 at Nashville, Tennessee, an improved method devised by All-American Aviation, Inc., for picking up airmail on the fly from the ground. A metal pole attached to the tail of the plane simply reaches down and snatches up the 100-pound mail bag attached to light rope strung. The device is expected to bring regular airmail service to 60 towns in New York State, Pennsylvania and West Virginia which do not have air transport service.

 

[Viking1066]

Vought O2U-2 Scouting Squadron 3-B, takes off from USS LEXINGTON (CV-2), 28 February 1929 HISN

 

[Elvis]

L-4 Grasshopper patrols along the beach on Aitape, Dutch New Guinea, 29 July 1944. (National Archives)
81 years ago, yesterday.

 

[Viking1066]

Kyushu Q1W1 Lorna Saeki Ku 1945

 

[GTX]

 

[syscom3]

A Short Sunderland Mk flying boat of No 210 Squadron RAF based at Oban in Scotland.
It is patrolling over a Canadian troop convoy on its way to Greenock. 31 July 1940.