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Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: your favorite aviation photos?
« Reply #60 on: December 27, 2011, 06:31:25 AM »
Looks good to me...
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Offline Scherf

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Re: your favorite aviation photos?
« Reply #61 on: December 27, 2011, 04:14:51 PM »
One of 8 Group Photographic Officer Squadron Leader Howard Lee's classics. It appears in Ian Thirsk's book:

... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: your favorite aviation photos?
« Reply #62 on: December 27, 2011, 04:29:03 PM »
Most of these were taken with my trusty, yet ancient, cellphone camera. 

This was on the way to an airshow.  We're flying formation with a Travel Air Biplane, which in this case is mostly red.  Anything red with multiple wings is the Red Baron, in my mind.  The winding creeks and farmland as far as the eye can see might as well be part of Europe.  There's some metal wires in front of my open cockpit which masquerade as being necessary to hold the plane together; they form an X shape though so obviously they must a gunsight.  That's all the ingredients I needed for for short jump back in time.





P-51 Lady Jo, with duel controls.  Ohh baby..







B-17 Sentimental Journey.



Aero Union P-3s.  Aero Union is no more as of not too long ago.  Not sure where the planes are now, probably Sacramento I'd guess.  27 used to be my Grandfather's plane.



Taxiing in after a flight in an N3N.

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