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[Viking1066]

P-39K during the Summer of 1942 showing the centerline drop tank installation to good advantage INHG

 

[Viking1066]

HMS Unicron with replacement Corsairs and Avengers on deck SAFO

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

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

 

[Warspite63]

Jimmy Stuart's personal P-51C he owned after WW2. The 2nd picture shows all that was removed from it to support racing.
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Great pic! Although when I zoom in, I DON'T see any M2 .50 Cals in the pile of components removed. Now these would certainly incur a heavy weight penalty ..... but would make passing him extremely risky .....

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

WASPs with USA

AF A-25 INHG

 

[Viking1066]

USS Long Island (AVG-1) Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter on the catapult, ready for take-off, 17 June 1942 LASS

 

[Viking1066]

Bristol Beaufighter IF V8318 'F-Freddie' of No.252 Squadron, RAF at Magrun March 1943 REDD

 

[MIflyer]

Did he raced in it?

I do not believe so but he sold it to Jackie Cochran and she raced it. Then he brought it back, They put a V-1650-9 engine in it, the same one used in the P-51H and that picture with the removed items show four propeller blades on one side while the blades mounted on the airplane look like the broad bladed ones used on the P-51H and P-82.

 

[CATCH 22]

I do not believe so but he sold it to Jackie Cochran and she raced it. Then he brought it back, They put a V-1650-9 engine in it, the same one used in the P-51H and that picture with the removed items show four propeller blades on one side while the blades mounted on the airplane look like the broad bladed ones used on the P-51H and P-82.

I have seen this a/c with the paddle-blades only, before or after it was remodeled. Here's J. Cochran in front of the plane in her time 1949-1951:

 

[Zippythehog]

Air Venture 2023

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[Viking1066]

Seagulls from the USS Louisville in formation over Sydney "5-SC-13" and "5-SC-14" 1938 AIRH

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

JRM-1 "Philippine Mars" December 1945 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Kittyhawks of the American Volunteer Group flying near the Salween River Gorge on the Chinese-Burmese border, May 28, 1942 WWAI

 

[Greg Boeser]

Kittyhawks of the American Volunteer Group flying near the Salween River Gorge on the Chinese-Burmese border, May 28, 1942 WWAI
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Tomahawks. Curtiss H-81-2. P-40B equivalent.
The AVG called them Sharks.
Kittyhawk was the British designation for P-40D and later models.

 

[Michael Hope]

I do not believe so but he sold it to Jackie Cochran and she raced it. Then he brought it back, They put a V-1650-9 engine in it, the same one used in the P-51H and that picture with the removed items show four propeller blades on one side while the blades mounted on the airplane look like the broad bladed ones used on the P-51H and P-82.

The P51H used a Curtis propeller, not a Hamilton Standard. The blades could be Albatross blades cut down for the correct diameter.

 

[syscom3]

The first Martin Marauder, B-26-MA 40-1361, takes off for the first time at Middle River, Maryland, 25 November 1940.