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CH-53E Super Stallion

 

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UC-35D

 

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Marine One

 

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RQ-2 Pioneer

 

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Esa cosa logro despegar?

 

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Miguel y Foristas de este "indedito y dificil" hilo...
Las de esta tarde....

Corsair (o... medio Corsair)

P-51

B-24s v Salzburg, Austria

B-24 ventral gunner

B-17

B-25s, Kansas 1942

B-25, Kansas

B-17

B-24

B-17

B-17

Dauntless lands on Hornet during Battle of Midway

B-17, Langley Fld, Virginia

B-17

...the original photo was uncaptioned but I vaguely recall hearing somewhere that the guy sitting in it is a mechanic, not the pilot.
By coincidence this pic of a Hellcat (below) has the same number of kill markings on it, the pilot is Alex Vraciu, so it's probably the same plane-

Vraciu holds up 6 fingers after shooting down 6 Japs in one day, he definitely doesn't look like the guy in the cockpit in the top photo-

Vraciu at an earlier stage in his career-

.and this is a Hellcat, the biggest telltale difference is the way the top of its canopy is curved, whereas the Wildcats is straight-

Wildcat

Grafton Underwood crews

Hellcats on Lexington

Dauntless on USS Essex damaged over Tarawa 1943

Hellcat on USS Suwanee, 1945

Wildcat

Hellcats on Enterprise

Dauntless being tractored from jetty, Espiritu Santo

Avenger in parade

Dauntless

Hellcat on USS Randolph

Avenger

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Brewster Buffalo, Miami 1943

Brewster Buffalo

B-17's

B-17 nose

Hellcat, USS Leyte post-war

Flight training school, Ontario

A-20 shot down v Kokas, Indonesia, crew killed

Continuarà................
EJD

 

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Location: Edwards Air Force Base, California Date: February/March 1958
The first zero-length launch of an USAF/North American F-100D Super Sabre took place at Edwards Air Force Base, California. North American Test Pilot Albert R. Blackburn was at the controls of the experimental rocket-propelled test aircraft.

Zero-Length Launch (ZLL) was a concept pioneered by the United States Air Force for quickly getting aircraft into the air without the need for a conventional runway take-off. The idea was to launch the aircraft via rocket power from a standing start. Shortly after launch, the aircraft was at flight speed and the dead rocket booster was jettisoned.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/americanaerospace/2013/03/18/first-super-sabre-zll-flight/

 

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Gracias Don Bigua por la hermosa foto de esta B 17 C...!!!
Y como siempe, excelentes las fotos subidas...Abrazo...!!!

 

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General Motors P-75 Eagle

 

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Overhead view of an unidentified gunner as he sorts left-over ammunition after first mission to Tokyo, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, January 15, 1945.

 

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Apparently these pictures were found in an attic recently from a retired serviceman, pics of Pearl Harbour as it happened, simply horrifying!!!