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Offline oakranger

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Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« on: February 14, 2016, 08:02:46 PM »
Howdy Folks!  I thought about to start a mega thread in the Aircraft and Vehicles strictly on real life photos of aircraft of WWII.

Rules are very simple:

Post any real life photos of any aircraft , from any country, at any time pre-WWII to post-WWII.  It does not matter if they are experimental, crashed, scrapped, destroyed, taxi or in flight.  Make sure while you post include information, if any, or asked the readers for help on identification or history.  Oh, please keep it clean.

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Captain Paul Hall's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter 'Dixie Gal' of 57th Fighter Group, US 64th Fighter Squadron at rest at Grosseto, Italy, Oct 1944-May 1945.  Story was that Capt. Hall was going on an attack run on a German Tank.  Mis-judge his alt and pulled up, but hit ground while attempting to pull up.  He flew 150 miles to the nears air field to land.

 

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 08:57:27 PM »
Why have one when you can have two?   :banana:



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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 09:34:04 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on February 14, 2016, 08:02:46 PM
Story was that Capt. Hall was going on an attack run on a German Tank.  Mis-judge his alt and pulled up, but hit ground while attempting to pull up.  He flew 150 miles to the nears air field to land.


Hard to argue with that photo.  Amazing.

- oldman
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 10:47:10 PM »
Quote from: Oldman731 on February 14, 2016, 09:34:04 PM

Hard to argue with that photo.  Amazing.

- oldman

Here is what the belly looks like.   :eek:

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 10:55:40 PM »

Ki, not sure what model.  Who can tell me what particularity interesting is going on in this photo?

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2016, 11:04:21 PM »


1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron/P-47D-25 "A6" (Red Flight).  Flown by Asp. Canario upon returning from a Ground Attack Mission.

On 01-27/1945 the Red flight (aircraft code: "A") took off for a sortie.  1º Ten. Av. Dornelles was leader of the formation, including 20 year old pilot Raymundo da Costa Canario, flying the P-47D #44-19663 (the "A6" aircraft).  Canario was originally in Yellow flight.   

While commencing an attack at low altitude, Canario collided with a factory chimney (which fell down).  In the collision the P-47 lost 1.28m (50.394") of the right wing, but that loss of a part of the wing did not hinder it coming back to the base.  Dornelles opted to fly over the Adriatic Sea, since there was excessive flak and dense clouds inland.  Over Veneza some Spitfires had almost knocked them down therefore they had not recognized them immediately as allied pilots.   After this "small" incident , Dornelles flew with Canario until 5000 ft, keeping silence on the radio.

The low and dense clouds made it difficult for a visual approach.  That is when Dornelles found a hole in the clouds and told Canario: "Wait here.  I will to go down to have a look and and I will come back to to tell you if this airstrip is okay for you to land."   Canario ignored the request and flew back with Dornelles.   A few moments before Canario to land he heard on the radio: "Abort! Abort!"  As a stricken P-61 Blackwidow needed to make an emergency landing!".  After which Canario made his final approach and landed safely.   Dornelles flew 89 missions after telling his fellow aviators "I'll never make it to 90 missions" and he died in 04/26/1945, while flying his P-47.   Canario flew 51 missions in total and survived the war.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2016, 07:47:21 AM »
Oakranger is that a corsair with double probs? I've never seen that.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2016, 08:26:27 AM »
Quote from: hgtonyvi on February 15, 2016, 07:47:21 AM
Oakranger is that a corsair with double probs? I've never seen that.

Yes it is.  Sure like to know how it preformed but I bet it lose a few RPMs too.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2016, 09:14:08 AM »


RUN MFER RUN!!!!!
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2016, 03:37:58 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on February 14, 2016, 10:55:40 PM
Ki, not sure what model.  Who can tell me what particularity interesting is going on in this photo?

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Ki-43's and would the interesting thing have to do with the starter truck? :headscratch:
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2016, 07:10:52 PM »
Quote from: tmetal on February 15, 2016, 03:37:58 PM
Ki-43's and would the interesting thing have to do with the starter truck? :headscratch:

Yes.  Here is a close up.  Wonder if the other Kis' start up similar or just the Ki-43.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2016, 08:12:50 PM »
Glass nose P-38! 





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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2016, 01:43:16 PM »
We could used these on AH.  Anybody guess what they are and for what?

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2016, 01:45:51 PM »
Quote from: oakranger on February 16, 2016, 01:43:16 PM
We could used these on AH.  Anybody guess what they are and for what?

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rocket rails?
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« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2016, 02:02:29 PM »
Quote from: bangsbox on February 16, 2016, 01:45:51 PM
rocket rails?

used for what?  Certainly not for taking on fighter interceptors..... :headscratch:
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