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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I'm on my phone so the picture is small. At first glance, I thought the plane was part of a tent.
fubar57
General
The tent is also part of a tent
MiTasol
2nd Lieutenant
And the picture changes every few minutes
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Like, wow, man. Far out.
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
Ran across this website the other day. It has free downloadable digitized searchable volumes of the Aero Digest magazine from Mar'26 to Jun'37. I realize this is technically before WWII but so much of the later info involves the lead-up to the war that I think it appropriate for this thread?
"Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine"
Note that there is a large amount of info on civil and general aviation, along with a fair amount on military aviation - plus a lot on the technical and engineering side of things. Most of it is oriented toward the US aviation industry but there is some non-US stuff as well.
The publication ran from 1921 to 1956, so I am going to try and find the earlier and later issues as well. If I do I will post the links here.
Update
Apparently Aero Digest was originally published as the Aeronautical Digest from 1921-1924 or later.
The HathiTrust website has the following earlier issues at "Catalog Record: Aeronautical digest"
No.3 from 1922
All of the 1923 issues
No.1 & No.2 from 1924
You cannot download the entire pdfs as a whole from HathiTrust unless you are a member of one or another institution, but you can read the entire publication and download pages individually.
"Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine"
Note that there is a large amount of info on civil and general aviation, along with a fair amount on military aviation - plus a lot on the technical and engineering side of things. Most of it is oriented toward the US aviation industry but there is some non-US stuff as well.
The publication ran from 1921 to 1956, so I am going to try and find the earlier and later issues as well. If I do I will post the links here.
Update
Apparently Aero Digest was originally published as the Aeronautical Digest from 1921-1924 or later.
The HathiTrust website has the following earlier issues at "Catalog Record: Aeronautical digest"
No.3 from 1922
All of the 1923 issues
No.1 & No.2 from 1924
You cannot download the entire pdfs as a whole from HathiTrust unless you are a member of one or another institution, but you can read the entire publication and download pages individually.
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ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
Updated the above post. 
MiTasol
2nd Lieutenant
There is a program called Hathi Download Helper that allows you to download the whole document if it is open access. Hathi Download Helper
It is slow because there is a limit to how many seconds it can download before it must pause for a minute or so but it works fairly well. A minor downside is it downloads each page separately and then merges them into a single file but leaves all the separate single page files that you need to delete manually.
Apparently it can download multiple files at the same time as well - never knew that until now but never needed it anyway.
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fubar57
General
Canadian Army Training Manuals WW2.... Training Manuals
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Just came across this YouTube channel:
B-17 Flying Fortress
From the channel's 'About' section:
This is the YouTube Channel of my B-17 web site and database B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
I am researching the history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and sharing my results. My focus of research is to identify B-17s and crews lost in combat. Telling their untold stories. Source of the most of the pictures and footages is the US National Archive.
From watching several of its videos, it appears the channel does what it claims to do. Primary source documents (e.g. route maps, after-action reports, etc.) are shown onscreen. Most of the videos are about five minutes long, but some are longer.
B-17 Flying Fortress
From the channel's 'About' section:
This is the YouTube Channel of my B-17 web site and database B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
I am researching the history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and sharing my results. My focus of research is to identify B-17s and crews lost in combat. Telling their untold stories. Source of the most of the pictures and footages is the US National Archive.
From watching several of its videos, it appears the channel does what it claims to do. Primary source documents (e.g. route maps, after-action reports, etc.) are shown onscreen. Most of the videos are about five minutes long, but some are longer.
MiTasol
2nd Lieutenant
MiTasol
2nd Lieutenant
Changing the search item to airplane produces many more photos. I need to go eat or I would try other search terms
MiTasol
2nd Lieutenant
Just lucked on to this one. I have not looked any further at this stage but I thought others may find it of use.
ukaeroarchives.wordpress.com
Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative
http://www.aviationarchives.uk
ukaeroarchives.wordpress.com
