Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 A6M5 Zero at Planes of Fame, Chino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 Albatros HU-16/UF-1 Boeing B-47 Stratojet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 B-17G 'Piccadilly Lilly II' at PLanes of Fame, Chino, CA B-17G 'Short Bier', I think from Hill AFB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 B-17G 'I'll Be Around' at Pima, AZ B-17G 'Virgin's Delight' at Castle AFB, CA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 B-17G 'Yankee Doodle' Can't remember where! After 6000 miles around the USA in 9 States, I lost track a little! B-17G 'Sally B' at North Weald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 and some B-24 Liberators B-24 'Bungay Buckaroo', at Pima an Un-named B-24 at Castle AFB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 B-24 'Louisiana Belle II' B-24 'Fightin' Sam' front fuselage section at the American Air Museum, Duxford before they got a complete B-24M, 'Dugan' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Blackburn Beverley at RAF Hendon in the mid 1970's. It arrived in 1968 and was left to rot outside, finally being scrapped and replaced with a plastic Spitfire and Hurricane. Being a significant RAF Transport, I don't know why it wasn't dismantled long before corrosion took hold, and stored indoors indefinitely until it could be restored and displayed properly. Only one now remains at Fort Paull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 For about 6 years, starting in September 1991 ( when these pictures were taken ), the RAF operated a genuine Messerschmitt Bf109G. It was captured in November 1942 having been abandoned in the desert as the Germans retreated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Two further Bf109's are seen here. Behind the first, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, are the large white elevators from the Howard Hughes HK1 Hercules, better known as the 'Spruce Goose' This one is from Planes of Fame at Chino, CA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 The Beechcraft twin, Model D-18/C-45 Expeditor was used in both civilian and military use. In addition to transport and passenger versions, some were modified for Navigation, Gurrery and Bombing training. The first picture below at Castle AFB shows a standard cargo/passenger C-45 Expeditor, while the second picture shows at AT-11 Bombing trainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Another WW2 transport aircraft was the Curtis C-46 Commando. C-46 served a similar role as its counterpart, the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, but was not as extensively produced. These examples are seen at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis Monthan AFB and Castle AFB Museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Very large photocollection. Must have been a great trip to the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Not all of them are from the USA, but the Honeymoon trip was three weeks long, taking in 6000 miles driving around 9 States! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevpol Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Honeymoon? if I tried to do that with my 1st wife, it would have been a short marriage!!! I like the shots of "Black 6", never saw her flying, but I did see the remains after the crash Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 The Honeymoon was planned around National Parks and Aircraft Museums. Seemed a fair mix to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 How about some WW1 aircraft? Mostly replicas, but still nice to see flying. SE5a's and Fokker DrI at North Weald 1988 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Fokker DRI and DVII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Fokker EIII Eindecker at RAF Finningley in 1992 Shuttleworth Collection Pup in 1985 and Albatros I think at the Fleet Air Arm Museum around the mid 1990's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Yet more B-17's. Favourite aircraft etc, it was bound to happen! Two of B-17F 'C Cup' during the 'Belle' filming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 B-17 G-FORT at Blackbush around 1982. Formerly with the French IGN company like the other current European B-17's, this aircraft went to the USA to become B-17 'Thunderbird'. B-17G 'Mary Alice' at Duxford in the late 1980's, before going into the American Air Museum building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 (edited) and now for something which not only looked futuristic when it came out in the 1960's, but still looks futuristic today, 47 years after the first flight of the A-12 'Oxcart'. The aircraft was developed into the SR-71, seen below at Castle AFB Museum. After the downing of Gary Powers' U-2 in 1960, concepts for drones were proposed. The Lockheed D-21 was a Mach 3+ reconnaissance drone. The drone was originally designed to be launched off the back of its A-12-based M-21 aircraft. Development began in October 1962. Originally known by the Lockheed designation Q-12, it was intended for reconnaissance missions deep into enemy airspace. The D-21 was designed to carry a single high-resolution photographic camera over a pre-programmed path, then release the camera module into the air for retrieval, followed by the drone's self-destruct. M-21 #60-6940 mated with D-21 #60-6940 at the Museum of Flight, Seattle,WA Edited December 7, 2009 by Jessie The Jeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 In 1942 the construction of the Messerschmitt Bf 108 was transferred to SNCAN (usually known as Nord) at Les Mureaux in occupied France. Before the liberation 170 Bf 108s were built and Nord continued to build the aircraft using scavenged Bf 108 airframe parts as the Nord 1000, until stocks of German Argus engines were exhausted. The type was then re-engined with a 233hp Renault 6Q 11 six-cylinder inline engine and was designated the Nord 1001 Pingouin I. A further update followed with a Renault 6Q 10-powered variant which was designated the Nord 1002 Pingouin II. Total production was 286 with the majority used as communications and liaison aircraft with the French armed forces. ( Info from Wiki ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Displaying at the same time as the Nord was another copy, this is a Morane-Saulnier Criquet, a French production post WWII copy of the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch using a radial engine rather than the original's inline Argus engine. Storch at Duxford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 (edited) Grumman TBM Avenger seen at RAF Finningley in the first picture and a rather damp Duxford Flying Legends show. Edited December 7, 2009 by Jessie The Jeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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