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Jackie Cochran posed in front of the Beechcraft D17W "Staggerwing" the net. This is why this is a great site. You learn something everyday from the guys on here.
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Isn't this what the school bully did to get the other kids lunch money?
While that is a great Picture of Jackie, she is not sitting in the cockpit of any Bomber, and I doubt it was taken in Canada. She is sitting in one of the 2 Seversky P-35 based Racers she flew, both numbered #13. I think it is the second one the AP-7 as the number 13 is farther forward, and by the fuselage construction is more like a P-43, than a P-35. And she flew the A/C earlier 1938-1940 time frame.Miss Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix is waving from the cockpit at an east Canadian airport on June 17, 1941
ready to fly the Atlantic as first officer in a bombing plane which is being delivered to Britain.
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She was quite the woman.While that is a great Picture of Jackie, she is not sitting in the cockpit of any Bomber, and I doubt it was taken in Canada. She is sitting in one of the 2 Seversky P-35 based Racers she flew, both numbered #13. I think it is the second one the AP-7 as the number 13 is farther forward, and by the fuselage construction is more like a P-43, than a P-35. And she flew the A/C earlier 1938-1940 time frame.
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Source Jackie Cochran's Seversky AP-7 NX1384, Bendix Trophy Race Winner 1938 | This Day in Aviation
They need to hurry with getting that hangar built- their Bolo is exposed.B-18 Bolo bomber of the 25th Bomb Group at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1941. Note the hangar under construction in the background the net
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Those Wacos were produced locally by the Villaume Company of St. Paul. One is currently on display at Fagan Fighters WW2 Museum, Granite Falls, MN.So, a Messerschmitt, a Focke-Wulf and a Stearman walk into the Minneapolis Auditorium….
Northwest Aviation Exposition 1944
Foreground Waco CG-4, right Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper, middle Boeing-Stearman PT-17, background damaged hulls of t
wo BF-109s and a FW-190.
Photos via Hennepin Public Library
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