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syscom3
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P-40E-1 Hold'n My Own of the 51st Fighter Group with her pilot Dallas Clinger
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Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Interesting camo.
I think he served with the 23rd Fighter Group.
MIflyer
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And they seem to have B-25's going down the line next to them. I don't think that is Tucson.
Those are B-24, not B-25, brother!
Have you seen this monster before? I haven't.... 
Here's the text to the photo (from my Instagram feed): The DeKellis-Olsen Air Truck of 1957 was a TRIPLANE crop duster that apparently made but a single flight (and that was allegedly just a single circuit of the field). After that no further work was carried out on it and the aircraft was abandoned to the elements.
Here's the text to the photo (from my Instagram feed): The DeKellis-Olsen Air Truck of 1957 was a TRIPLANE crop duster that apparently made but a single flight (and that was allegedly just a single circuit of the field). After that no further work was carried out on it and the aircraft was abandoned to the elements.
MiTasol
Major
I would hate to be the pilot if that windscreen broke adrift.
In Lower Austria (a province in Austria) there is a Museum of Nonsense, I believe it was called Nonseum. This aeroplane belongs there.What people won't come up with ....
cammerjeff
Tech Sergeant
Northwest Airlines 1st DC-3 NC 21711 predelivery stored with the DC-4E prototype
source Aircraft – Douglas DC-3 - Northwest Airlines History Center
source Aircraft – Douglas DC-3 - Northwest Airlines History Center
MIflyer
Captain
With circular engine cowlings? Those would either be LB-30, and being next to P-51B, that is far too late in the war. Or else they would be PB4Y-2 and they don't look nearly long enough for that. Here is B-24 cowl.
cammerjeff
Tech Sergeant
Picture of mail and baggage being loaded into a NWA Lockheed 14, you can see how the airliner was easily modified into the Hudson Bomber. The underwing baggage compartment into a Bomb bay, and the nose compartment into the bomb aimers position. The Model 14 even has a clear nose cone covering the ADF antenna.
source Aircraft – Lockheed 14H Sky Zephyr - Northwest Airlines History Center
source Aircraft – Lockheed 14H Sky Zephyr - Northwest Airlines History Center
MiTasol
Major
The site you link to has lots of photos so that modellers could convert a Cyclone powered Hudson kit to the Model 14.
As you say they already had the glass nose to streamline the DF loop. I never knew that, or about the under cockpit and under wing cargo compartments.
Like the early Hudson's they had counterweight props.
Another photo on the site shows the cargo compartments and that they had a ground power connection. Note the support for the cable. It must have been prone to falling out at first is my guess.
As you say they already had the glass nose to streamline the DF loop. I never knew that, or about the under cockpit and under wing cargo compartments.
Like the early Hudson's they had counterweight props.
Another photo on the site shows the cargo compartments and that they had a ground power connection. Note the support for the cable. It must have been prone to falling out at first is my guess.
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The plant in Tucson was a modification centre. Mustangs were not manufactured there, only modified. I believe it's the same with the B-24 in this photo. AFAIK this is Davis-Monthan Air Force Base today.
If you check the second plane in the row you'll see that the cowling (partially behind a wing) is exactly the same as you show it (and we all know it).
The cowling of the nearest plane is the same - there is something on top of it (some tarp or matt for the worker there) which makes it look higher. The intake on the side of the cowl is clearly visible.
It's up to you to believe it or not, of course!
Cheers!
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MiTasol
Major
I think he was suffering from what an old boss of mine would call an optical dissolutionment.
I must admit I had to look very hard at the original post to see that it was B-24s and I decided it was because the engine on the second one was way too far outboard for a B-25. The angle of the photo initially made me think B-25 as I thought they were too low to be B-24's.
I must admit I had to look very hard at the original post to see that it was B-24s and I decided it was because the engine on the second one was way too far outboard for a B-25. The angle of the photo initially made me think B-25 as I thought they were too low to be B-24's.
Here's a better copy of the same photo.
BTW the NAA factory in Inglewood, the only place where B-25 and P-51 were ever manufactured together looks different.
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Viking1066
Brigadier General
Interesting photograph of the underside of an Avenger with its bomb bay doors open INHG
