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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2018, 01:37:41 PM »
Quote from: colmbo on August 23, 2018, 12:40:08 PM
That prop nick I would bet money on being caused by a rock during runup or takeoff.  Typical type damage, have filed a few of those out myself.

Leading edges of the props have lots of abrasion issues.

An aviation expert who used to post on this board would tell you, you couldn't file down the nick.
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2018, 01:54:30 PM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on August 23, 2018, 01:37:41 PM
Leading edges of the props have lots of abrasion issues.

An aviation expert who used to post on this board would tell you, you couldn't file down the nick.

Well at least in the US you can but there are limits as to depth, etc.  I used to see so many inexperienced guys do damage to props from simply increasing power too quickly during takeoff, or the most common problem stopping the airplane to do a power check/runup.  If you're on gravel you keep the airplane rolling as you do a quick power check, it doesn't take a lot of forward speed to prevent the debris from hitting the prop.  Some bush guys I knew would do there runup/mag check on downwind before landing.
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2018, 08:24:59 PM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on August 23, 2018, 01:37:41 PM
An aviation expert who used to post on this board would tell you, you couldn't file down the nick.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2013/july/08/propeller-care-preventive-maintenance

He probably qualifies as an aviation expert, too.

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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2018, 04:55:06 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on April 27, 2018, 09:00:18 AM
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Capt. George D. Green with his P-51D, mid 1944. Aircraft serial 44-14137 - P-51D - 335FS, 4th FG - designation was strangely 'WD-KK'. Capt. George D Green's plane, called 'Suzanne' and had a RARE extra 'K' designation. Due to allocation error.

Green is known for doing something brilliant and at the same time, completely reckless. Anyone remember what it was?

George Green picked up his squadron CO behind enemy lines in March 1945. Jack Ilfrey rescued his wingman in November 1944 and Royce Priest (354FS/355FG) picked up his CO Bert Marshall (my father) August 18, 1944 for the first piggy back rescue in ETO. otherwise I would not be posting here today.
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #34 on: October 03, 2018, 01:43:51 PM »

World War Two. 18th January, 1945. Asia. British Carrier-Borne aircraft Strike at Japanese Occupied Sumatra, Indonesia in the Pacific. A pilot of the Hellcat fighter plane.

Ed note: anyone know who this guy is?
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« Reply #35 on: October 03, 2018, 01:46:57 PM »

B-17F Flying Fortress 'Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile' of the 91st Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, on a mission to attack the U-boat pens at Lorient, May 1943
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #36 on: October 03, 2018, 01:47:48 PM »

A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, cleaning the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #37 on: October 03, 2018, 01:54:51 PM »


We all know this airplane. It's one of the skins available for the 51D. Lieutenant Vernon R Richards of the 361st Fighter Group fliying his P-51D Mustang nicknamed 'Tika IV', during a bomber escort mission in 1944
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #38 on: October 03, 2018, 01:58:05 PM »
Some rare IJA photos. Early Tony I think. Wish I knew who the pilots were.





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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #39 on: October 03, 2018, 01:59:04 PM »
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #40 on: October 03, 2018, 02:01:06 PM »
 :bhead

Anyone remember what this was called? :x

(it never saw combat)
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #41 on: October 03, 2018, 06:05:37 PM »
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #42 on: October 03, 2018, 08:08:53 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on October 03, 2018, 01:47:48 PM
A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, cleaning the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943


A myth, perpetrated by the British.  They're actually loading the cannon.  They didn't put breech-loaders on their tanks until near the end of the war.

- oldman (those are all nice photos, Fork, thanks)
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #43 on: October 04, 2018, 07:24:21 AM »
We used to repair our ultralight wood props with a mixture of superglue and baking soda.


Quote from: colmbo on August 23, 2018, 01:54:30 PM
Well at least in the US you can but there are limits as to depth, etc.  I used to see so many inexperienced guys do damage to props from simply increasing power too quickly during takeoff, or the most common problem stopping the airplane to do a power check/runup.  If you're on gravel you keep the airplane rolling as you do a quick power check, it doesn't take a lot of forward speed to prevent the debris from hitting the prop.  Some bush guys I knew would do there runup/mag check on downwind before landing.
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Re: WWII Aircraft and Vehicles in color
« Reply #44 on: October 04, 2018, 09:26:09 AM »
Quote from: Oldman731 on October 03, 2018, 08:08:53 PM

A myth, perpetrated by the British.  They're actually loading the cannon.  They didn't put breech-loaders on their tanks until near the end of the war.

- oldman (those are all nice photos, Fork, thanks)
:rofl

Yeah, it often left their gun crews exposed while they ran outside to load the power first, then the wadding, then the shell. And then they ran inside to light the fuse. Kinda like a clown car at a circus during battle  :D

I'm not sure which job was worse during WWII for Allied forces, infantry soldier or tank crew? Panzer divisions were notoriously battle hardened in their superior tanks designed to actually protect their crews, ease of operation, and allow easy egress to escape... not much could be said for American and British tanks, especially the Sherman....however... 

Am I the only one who thinks Soviet tanks were designed around the function of the machine and not the operators? (Soviet accent) "To heel wit da crewz, we feiht for Stalinnn'
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