Author Topic: Vintage airplanes: let's see your pictures (Read 53249 times)

demon78 · « **Reply #250 on:** August 20, 2018, 03:21:20 AM »

Yeah Bear, more than you and if I'd been half bright I could have brought the old Telefunken out and made tapes of those 48 merlins it would have been magnificent, but that's the way it goes.
Bill the demon

ewanhughes · « **Reply #251 on:** August 20, 2018, 04:06:04 AM »

Photo taken at Dumfries Aviation Museum.
You'll already know about the machine in the foreground but can anyone help in identifying the aircraft?
Could it be a Lightning?

jlh3rd · « **Reply #252 on:** August 20, 2018, 04:23:16 AM »

Quote from: ewanhughes on August 20, 2018, 04:06:04 AM

Photo taken at Dumfries Aviation Museum.
You'll already know about the machine in the foreground but can anyone help in identifying the aircraft?
Could it be a Lightning?

yep, english electric lightning

Don R · « **Reply #253 on:** August 21, 2018, 08:29:31 AM »

My brother in front of one of the W50's he used to work on. He's on the phone with one of his Air force buddies asking about the N number. They flew out of Japan, he owned a few bikes while he was there and rode the Honda test track.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AQdZ8zbcWj9eJoot7

strynboen · « **Reply #254 on:** August 21, 2018, 11:31:14 AM »

svensk POWER..

OldSchool_IsCool · « **Reply #255 on:** August 21, 2018, 04:59:32 PM »

A B-17 Flying Fortress has been flying around Kalamazoo the past few days. I found it at the Air Zoo! Oh and bonus, a Grumman F6F Hellcat too! They are giving static tours for 10 bux tomorrow. Guess who’s skipping work!

. Taking a ride is prolly too rich for my wallet, but I WILL ask!

Oh, and Kevin D, they come’n to Yipsi Thursday or Friday!

jlh3rd · « **Reply #256 on:** August 22, 2018, 02:57:23 AM »

Quote from: OldSchool_IsCool on August 21, 2018, 04:59:32 PM

A B-17 Flying Fortress has been flying around Kalamazoo the past few days. I found it at the Air Zoo! Oh and bonus, a Grumman F6F Hellcat too! They are giving static tours for 10 bux tomorrow. Guess who’s skipping work! . Taking a ride is prolly too rich for my wallet, but I WILL ask!

Oh, and Kevin D, they come’n to Yipsi Thursday or Friday!

that's not a hellcat, that's a curtis helldiver....dont see many of those at all.

OldSchool_IsCool · « **Reply #257 on:** August 22, 2018, 04:14:05 PM »

Quote from: jlh3rd on August 22, 2018, 02:57:23 AM

Quote from: OldSchool_IsCool on August 21, 2018, 04:59:32 PM
A B-17 Flying Fortress has been flying around Kalamazoo the past few days. I found it at the Air Zoo! Oh and bonus, a Grumman F6F Hellcat too! They are giving static tours for 10 bux tomorrow. Guess who’s skipping work! . Taking a ride is prolly too rich for my wallet, but I WILL ask!

Oh, and Kevin D, they come’n to Yipsi Thursday or Friday!

that's not a hellcat, that's a curtis helldiver....dont see many of those at all.

You are correct Sir! It is a Helldiver. Last Helldiver capable of flight too!

OldSchool_IsCool · « **Reply #258 on:** August 22, 2018, 04:39:28 PM »

Up close and personal with the B-17...

72 yellow · « **Reply #259 on:** August 22, 2018, 05:08:08 PM »

2 pics of my dad on Okinawa in 1945. The B-24 "Breadline in 49" picture was taken after a crash landing in a typhoon. It was later repaired and flown back to Arizona to be scrapped. The B-24 "Embarrassed" was assigned to the 380th Bomb Group.

bear · « **Reply #260 on:** August 28, 2018, 02:01:44 AM »

A Fokker Albatros with an interesting storey.

dave500 · « **Reply #261 on:** August 28, 2018, 04:33:11 AM »

Quote from: 72 yellow on August 22, 2018, 05:08:08 PM

2 pics of my dad on Okinawa in 1945. The B-24 "Breadline in 49" picture was taken after a crash landing in a typhoon. It was later repaired and flown back to Arizona to be scrapped. The B-24 "Embarrassed" was assigned to the 380th Bomb Group.

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great photos yellow!your dad wouldve never imagined that they would ever be more than worn out paper photos by now but here they are all over the world,good on him and his mates!

72 yellow · « **Reply #262 on:** August 29, 2018, 06:08:17 AM »

Quote from: dave500 on August 28, 2018, 04:33:11 AM

Quote from: 72 yellow on August 22, 2018, 05:08:08 PM
2 pics of my dad on Okinawa in 1945. The B-24 "Breadline in 49" picture was taken after a crash landing in a typhoon. It was later repaired and flown back to Arizona to be scrapped. The B-24 "Embarrassed" was assigned to the 380th Bomb Group.

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great photos yellow!your dad wouldve never imagined that they would ever be more than worn out paper photos by now but here they are all over the world,good on him and his mates!
Thanks, Dave. You are correct about the pictures, I found them in an album sitting on a shelf in his closet.

scottly · « **Reply #263 on:** August 31, 2018, 10:11:18 PM »

Quote from: 72 yellow on August 22, 2018, 05:08:08 PM

2 pics of my dad on Okinawa in 1945. The B-24 "Breadline in 49" picture was taken after a crash landing in a typhoon. It was later repaired and flown back to Arizona to be scrapped. The B-24 "Embarrassed" was assigned to the 380th Bomb Group.

There's a good chance your dad's plane was melted down in my backyard. The smelter was originally used for mining operations, but was also used after the war to reclaim aluminum from scrapped aircraft. I found a gun turret laying on the ground, which confused me until I found out about the post-war operations.

72 yellow · « **Reply #264 on:** September 01, 2018, 07:06:56 AM »

Quote from: scottly on August 31, 2018, 10:11:18 PM

Quote from: 72 yellow on August 22, 2018, 05:08:08 PM
2 pics of my dad on Okinawa in 1945. The B-24 "Breadline in 49" picture was taken after a crash landing in a typhoon. It was later repaired and flown back to Arizona to be scrapped. The B-24 "Embarrassed" was assigned to the 380th Bomb Group.

There's a good chance your dad's plane was melted down in my backyard. The smelter was originally used for mining operations, but was also used after the war to reclaim aluminum from scrapped aircraft. I found a gun turret laying on the ground, which confused me until I found out about the post-war operations.

Several years ago the wife and I vacationed in Arizona. We saw the mothballed aircraft at Davis-Monthan AFB. We also saw the place where aircraft were being scrapped. Dad served with the 49th Service Squadron, 5th Army Air Force.

MarkVMod0 · « **Reply #265 on:** December 21, 2018, 10:59:34 PM »

Stumbled on this thread and it consumed a fair bit of time because I am just awed by the old war birds. My wife's dad had a tad over 5,000 hours in the B17, flew with Jimmy Stewart once upon a time . His best friend was Bob Morgan of the Memphis Belle, Oneal was chosen to fly the new B-29 picking her up from Amarillo. His B-29 was the Little Gem and I believe he was the second B29 over Tokyo right behind Bob Morgan's Dauntless Dotty.

I love the sound of those warbirds, but the only warbirds I got much exposure to were the F4 Phantoms, man what a rush when they flew low overhead firing their guns, an unmistakeable sound. There was an airshow here in Albuquerque and the most fearsome aircraft I saw was a B2 bomber, it was just evil looking as it passed low overhead.

Only thing I miss about flight nursing is all the cool old war birds that would show up at the FBO for fuel or overnight stowage. Most pilots would take the time to show the aircraft.

CBJoe · « **Reply #266 on:** December 28, 2018, 05:54:00 AM »

Currently on a road trip through the northeast....we stopped by the Wright Patterson AFB Museum on the way out of Indy.

P-47
P-40

CBJoe · « **Reply #267 on:** December 28, 2018, 05:58:57 AM »

B-25
P-38
Spitfire

CBJoe · « **Reply #268 on:** December 28, 2018, 06:05:35 AM »

P-61 Black Widow
P-39 Air Cobra

Don R · « **Reply #269 on:** September 11, 2021, 06:02:17 PM »

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tWpYa2KYnoXY61fTA

https://photos.app.goo.gl/d1ycXFCkh1nsaHiB9

The white one with the stripes gave me a ride I'll never forget, I think he startled fish in the lake. I remember looking up at a 2 story building near the water.

I heard over a hundred Stearman were registered. Today there were a few doing formation flying. Years ago they did Dawn patrol over town and tried to get all of them in the air at the same time. Yesterday I watched the short takeoff contest. A pair of them were pretty serious, high rpm's and it seemed like they were in the air in just a few plane lengths. A B25 was giving rides too. Would be worth the price tag.

Don R · « **Reply #270 on:** September 11, 2021, 06:32:58 PM »

The B25 Berlin Express taxiing, Was in the movie Catch 22, an executive transport, trainer and came new with a solid nose and a 75mm cannon riding inside.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/95UzM7XeUmYbwjxw7

jlh3rd · « **Reply #271 on:** September 12, 2021, 04:23:34 AM »

wichita, ks....where Doc and a few others are kept....

Kevin D · « **Reply #272 on:** September 12, 2021, 05:33:28 AM »

Richmond Field near Gregory, MI. A colorful Boeing/Stearman N2S-3 trainer was practicing takeoffs and landings. 7 cyl radial, 220 hp, 668ci.

Don R · « **Reply #273 on:** September 18, 2021, 04:23:43 PM »

A friend is working on a motorcycle engine based on two cylinders off of a Stearman. He already built one with a B29 generator engine and another one with two cylinders sliced off of a Dodge 241 hemi.
When his buddies had VW dune buggies, his had a 392 hemi in it. I doubt it ever saw sand.

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