Help me name this!

[Sorrow[S=A]]

I found it in my picures from my trip last year and cannot remember what it is. Any help?

[chunder']

A-1 Skyraider, not sure which variant

[Weave]

Hmm, Bearcat I think.

[Sorrow[S=A]]

Definitly NOT a bearcat. It was some kind of bomber IIRC, anyone?

[eddiek]

Hhhhhhmmmmmmm.......can't tell for sure, but it kinda looks like the Ryan Firebee (Fireball)?  Hybrid jet/prop attack plane, IIRC.  But hard to tell from that angle in the photo.

[brady]

Martin Mauler, I have stood right next to that plane put my paw on it   they have since refurbished it new paint job and everthing, still neads some work though, Tillamook air museum prety cool place bigest frestanding wood bld, old blimp base fromm WW2.

 I went to Nanimo once my G/F and I spent the night their Beatuifull place.
 http://www.martinstateairport.com/museum/aircraft/ch_19.htm

[ 10-07-2001: Message edited by: brady ]

[GRUNHERZ]

It carries 10,600lbs of killing stuff!!!!  I want!!

[Sorrow[S=A]]

TYVM!
I snapped the shot last year, this year I was looking at them to scan but couldn't remember what this one was!  


Glad to hear you enjoyed the city- all of BC is pretty but Nanaimo just sorta dwells in the best spots  

[brady]

It was an awsome trip we headed N up Vancouver Is. and hopped the fery to Prince Rupert, 15 hrs later we docked . Then we drove across BC to Jasper and Banif, and then down to the international peace park ( Glacer )and thean home

 I visteted 2 air museumes on Vancover Is. one in Sidney ( they had a bearcat , and a Blenihm) I forget the name of the city whear the second one was at but it was further North up the coast.
 We lucked out that day I was walking down the streat with my G/F in sidney and herd, then Looked up and saw a Spitfire! it made a lazy turn and headed back toward the airfield, I grabed hear hand a pulled her toward the car...whear are we going she asked?! to the airfield! i said   do you know whear it is?, ya this way! whear the spit is going we got their in a middle of an air show snuck out onto the field and sat in the grass about 100yards of the end of the runway the olanes were making low passes over the strip and our heads! Their were a bunch of great planes, a Helcat, a Spit and a P 51 and a couple others it was great having those planes pass so close over head, I cant beleave we dident get in trouble, was a great day to be in Canada

[Sorrow[S=A]]

Sidney has a great collection of airplanes and airshows, the other place you saw them would have been cortney/comox where the Airforce base is.

About the spit- a funny memory- in my wife's days of dating we took a long slow drive around the West side of the Island. Around Sooke area we saw a sign where an old fellow was doing wood carvings. We went up and talked to him for hours. He had a great little wooden cabin on top of a hill overlooking the harbour.

This fellow was a mechanic in WWII in North Africa. He served alongside the planes from the Kittyhawks right up to the Spits and Hurricanes. He claimed to us that he could identify a spit mk without fail just from the sound of the engine.

A few years later we drove the same route after seeing the airshow. I talked to him and he was excited as hell. Apparently two spits did a little show in his harbour on their way to the show. He was so excited, I asked him what they were and he said MkV and MkXIV without pause. Later at the airshow I saw these planes. One was a MkXIV sure enough....  but other a MkIX. Puzzled I waited until the pit passes let us in and talked briefly with the owner. Damned if that old man wasn't RIGHT on the money..  the IX airframe had a refurbished Merlin from a MkV. The old guy couldn't see far enough to ID those planes by sight...  but his ear could still ID them!

Sorrow

[brady]

WOW great story., I got to meat a spit mechanic when I was a kid he grew wine grapes and my folks bought theam from him, we talked a long time that october my folks said I talked his ear off, he was asigned to a US spit squaderon in the med, said none of their piolets wanted to give up thier Spits when they had to swithch to US planes later in the war...