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[Viking1066]

Bombs positioned on metal stands prior to being loaded on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific. INHG

 

[mjfur]

I wonder if this is Mike Bougue's old B-23. His languished in N. California after he passed away. His had the red and white rudder
stripes, was used in the movie Tucker. Got a ride in that baby. Hap Arnold's staff A/C WWII, if it is. Don't remember the glass nose tho.

It is not. The pictured aircraft is 36-036. https://www.warbirdregistry.org/b23registry/b23-390036.html

Mike's plane N747M, s/n 39-033, c/n 2618 is still out in the civilian world.

https://www.warbirdregistry.org/b23registry/b23-390033.html

Aircraft Inquiry (747M)

 

[MIflyer]

...they're coming off a 3-day weekend, I'm thinking...

A word of advice. NEVER buy an He-162 built on a Friday or a Monday, and ESPECIALLY not after a Monday holiday.

 

[Bretoal2]

A word of advice. NEVER buy an He-162 built on a Friday or a Monday, and ESPECIALLY not after a Monday holiday.

Especially if you think you're buying a Me-262.

 

[Viking1066]

Betty Gillies, first WASP INHG

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Victorious serving with TF 36.3 being refuled by the USN tanker Cimarron July 1943 SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

ATA Pilots with Tiger Moth INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Boeing B-17 Fortress "Little Audrey" with the 306th Bomb Group from Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England 1943 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Douglas B-18B Bolo "37-0505" 17BG FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Fairey Battles CAF Trenton 1940s AIRH

 

[GTX]

 

[MIflyer]

Jimmy Stuart with members of the B-24 squadron he commanded. He instructed on B-17's and went to war in B-24's.

Note the Bulged Out cockpit side windows. These probably were added to help ASW aircraft but usually were hated by bomber crews, since it badly distorted their views of other aircraft in the formation.

 

[SaparotRob]

HMS Victorious serving with TF 36.3 being refuled by the USN tanker Cimarron July 1943 SAFO
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I think that's U.S.S. Robin.

 

[BEAR VMF257]

Planes on deck all have USN markings

 

[SaparotRob]

That's so they get shot down only by the right sort of people.

 

[syscom3]

Lt Roy Rossel Jr of the 434th Fighter Squadron poses on the wing of his P-51D, 1945

 

[MIflyer]

IDF B-17's, escorted by BF-109's, intercepted by Egyptian Spitfires.

 

[MIflyer]

Jimmy Stuart's personal P-51C he owned after WW2. The 2nd picture shows all that was removed from it to support racing.

 

[Viking1066]

Aircraft loaded in the UK being ferried to Australia leaving Glasgow for the 12,000 mile journey SAFO

 

[Viking1066]

Flight Deck Operations on USS Enterprise CV-6 during the Doolittle Raid, April 1942 REDD