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Offline Mister Fork

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #450 on: November 10, 2017, 01:12:58 PM »
Another one I really like

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #451 on: November 10, 2017, 01:13:26 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 10, 2017, 01:10:59 PM
Found some german ones...
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Hinged hatch in vertical stabilizer was ingenious!
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #452 on: November 10, 2017, 01:14:32 PM »
I think it's important to recognize that a lot of the bombers, fighters, weapons, and tanks were made by primarily a woman workforce.  Everyone sacrificed their lives, families, and careers during WWI and WWII.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #453 on: November 10, 2017, 01:16:18 PM »
Lucky bomber pilots and crews
Wally Boblitt in  Little Sherry, Corsica, 1944


Charles O'Mahony in Miss Manchester, Corsica, 1944 - Charles went on later after WWII to write the famous book - The Widow Maker - and the troubling history of the B-26 Marauder and his experiences during WWII flying it.



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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #454 on: November 10, 2017, 01:20:06 PM »
Quote from: perdue3 on November 10, 2017, 01:13:26 PM
Hinged hatch in vertical stabilizer was ingenious!
I know! And in the 190, auto pitch control and fuel mixture, with a simple engine start process (compared to any Allied aircraft or the Bf-109), the 190 was a tech marvel.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #455 on: November 10, 2017, 01:36:20 PM »


I prefer women that fly!
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #456 on: November 10, 2017, 03:07:32 PM »
Soviet's had a lot of really good combat pilots. This is Marina Raskova -  125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment commander. She flew the Pe-2 - died in a crash landing in 1943.

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« Reply #457 on: November 10, 2017, 03:12:36 PM »
And who can forget Natalya Meklin? Aka from the Night Witches

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #458 on: November 11, 2017, 09:48:48 AM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 10, 2017, 01:10:12 PM
I really like this one...
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OMG, is this a humonous P40 or are these pigmy pilots?!  :eek:
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #459 on: November 12, 2017, 02:44:59 PM »
Quote from: bozon on November 11, 2017, 09:48:48 AM
OMG, is this a humonous P40 or are these pigmy pilots?!  :eek:
Oompa Loompa's - on loan from the Charlie's chocolate factory.  :D
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #460 on: November 22, 2017, 01:25:04 PM »
Ok, I'm head scratching on this one...AMERICAN markings on a Spit V? (or a Spit IIb?)

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« Reply #461 on: November 22, 2017, 01:25:59 PM »
The RAF’s top-scoring fighter pilot, Wing Commander James ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, with his Spitfire and pet Labrador ‘Sally’ at Bazenville landing ground, Normandy, July 1944. Photo courtesy IWM.
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« Reply #462 on: November 22, 2017, 01:28:33 PM »
Another AMERICAN Spitfire... so weird. Navy IIc?

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« Reply #463 on: November 22, 2017, 01:34:08 PM »
RAF Lockheed Hudson Mk VI (AE626) of the Middle East Communications Flight flying outside of Cairo over the pyramids - 1942

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #464 on: November 22, 2017, 03:39:15 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 22, 2017, 01:25:04 PM
Ok, I'm head scratching on this one...AMERICAN markings on a Spit V? (or a Spit IIb?)

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307th FS, 31st FG in England equipped with Spit 5.  Moved to North Africa and equipped with Spit 5, 8 and 9.  Eventually switched to the P-51, leading group in the Med.

The ditched Spit was on the beach near Anzio IIRC.
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