Who Likes Aircraft ?

[MOPOWER871]

some of my shots

 

[Bladecutter]

Nice MO! Have always dug Your Photoging....Rainbow is Sweet!

 

[Bladecutter]

some of my shots

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Bag a Martin B-26 someday.....Weeks's Bird is probly the only whole one, so if You get down to Fla. AirGrabberRR nailed some nice celluloid @ Fantasy of Flight......Weeks bought that bird out of Chino, here in LA basin...was built from 3 recovered,,,,,, back packed parts out of Yukon....squad that got lost in weather & ran out of fuel. Smithsonian is doing 200 plus mission flak bait....thatll be a minute....doubt theyll make it airworthy....which Kermit's Bird is airworthy.....Aero Trader did a partial & humped up those R-2800's....spinners on that Plane are Art...a clean bitch....Cutiss Electric 4 blades are over 14 ft diameter.....tuff act to follow.....short wings turn near as tight as 109's & 190's in capable hands....that airplane requires the most capable hands, but delivered on the objective as stats prove...100 mph an hour faster than B-25...screw the books, my Dad was a test pilot with Douglas & Martin during war, A-20's wete his favorite @ Douglas.....but the B-26 He referred to as in own class......one must keep a taught lead, ready to lose an engine, dangerous airplane @ blue line, or no altitude to recover....its going on its back, period....especially right out. But they were notoriously fast & agile (short wings, wing loading 54 sq lbs per ft.) landing speed was 135 mph.....power to ground, only cut @ flare......Ted Smith hot rod. (Aerostar, Aero Commander). Thats about same landing speed as a 737, in a considerably smaller A/C.

 

[Basket case]

it's a shame that more Marauder's didn't survive. beautiful aircraft, and they look fast sitting on the ground. Jimmy Doolittle showed the Army what they could do.
WP's B-26

 

[Bruzilla]

or this one...LOL

When I was at NAS Bermuda, we had a real ******** Radioman 1st Class (RM1) named Bill who worked in Communications and he was a total Black Shoe (Surface Navy) guy. He hated aviation and was always running his yap about how great being aboard ship was and what losers the Brown Shoes (Aviation guys) were.

When Top Gun came out on video, we were watching on watch one night, and Bill comes in. He asked what was on, and I told him Top Gun, and he started in on his anti-aviation rants. I told him to just watch the first five minutes of the movie because there's lots of cool shots of his black shoe pals at work. He watched that opening, and as I suspected, he got hooked on the whole Naval Aviation is Cool thing.

He got our storekeeper to hook him up with a flight jacket the next week, and he ended up getting orders to a TACAMO squadron and became an aircrewman on the E-6 birds.

 

[Bruzilla]

At this point in the thread this clip seems appropriate and related.

My family was on a vacation to Key West when they were filming this down there. We were riding around on the Conch Train and I saw the two Zeroes go by, and I told my Dad "There's two Japanese Zeroes!" and he said no way, then saw them and we were both in shock. They also had a brown-painted DC-3 that did a fly by with one engine shut down and blowing smoke, but I guess they cut that scene.

 

[Bruzilla]

Some shots from my P-3C days...

My crew (CAC-10) at NAS Sigonella, Italy in 1982.

I took these on a patrol mission in 1983 or so. We were taking off from NAS Jacksonville, FL, and a frigging sea gull hit the plane just as we climbed past the tower. The guys in the tower didn't see the bird hit, but saw something white fall from the plane and thought it was a panel. They had another of our crews that was flying come over to check us out.

Shot of one of our Fast Attack boats submerging off Charleston, S.C.

Rigging shot of SS Festivale, a cruise ship we rigged in the Caribbean on a counter-narcotics flight.

Shot of my acoustic sensor station. That is what sonar signatures look like when they are displayed on paper.

This is a shot of the line of Brits waiting to get a tour of our plane at the HMS Lands End airshow in England in 1982/1983. We had planned to open the plane from 0900-1100, go to lunch, then re-open from 1300-1500, and we ended up going non-stop from 0730 when we got there until just before 2000 that night.

Shot of a Soviet Kashin Class cruiser in the Med in 1982.

Shot of a Soviet Foxtrot SS we caught on the surface of the Med in 1984, and was blowing his tanks to get submerged.

Me, sick as a dog, sitting at my station on my second patrol mission with VP-5 in 1980. My stomach had yet to adapt to bouncing around at 300 feet for eight hours.

 

[Photon440]

 

[Photon440]

Oddball Russian sea monster:

 

[Photon440]

Oddball Russian sea monster:

 

[polywideblock]

always dug the ekranoplan

 

[MOPOWER871]

GOT A RIDE IN A BLACK HAWK DURING THE RHODE ISLAND AIRSHOW

 

[MOPOWER871]

WELL WE JUST LOST A P-47 IN THE HUDSON RIVER PILOT GOT OUT OK PLANES HOME WAS THE AMERICAN AIRPOWER MUSEUM FARMINGDALE N.Y.

 

[Basket case]

any details? I imagine the T Bolt will be recovered.
glad the pilot is OK.

 

[MOPOWER871]

JUST HAPPEN TWO HOURS AGO.7:30 PM, THEY WHERE DOING A THREE PLANE PHOTO SHOOT PLANE WAS TO FLY THIS WEEKEND IN THE JONES BEACH AIR SHOW PICS ABOVE OF THE PLANE

 

[MOPOWER871]

JUST RECEIVED UPDATE , EARLY REPORTS THAT THE PILOT MADE IT OUT OK WHERE WRONG DIVERS RECOVERED THE BODY OF THE PILOT SAD DAY FOR AVIATION FANS , RIP

 

[Mike67]

I first fell in love with war birds because of my dad, he worked on the old F4 phantoms (VF 142 Ghostriders NK) on a the USS Constellationin CVA-84 in Nam so it holds a special place as one of my faves...The other plane is a
their sister squadron VF143...he said everyone referd to them as "the puking dogs"

 

[Bladecutter]

it's a shame that more Marauder's didn't survive. beautiful aircraft, and they look fast sitting on the ground. Jimmy Doolittle showed the Army what they could do.
WP's B-26

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Basket....repeating myself....my Dad was a test pilot @ Martin.....flew many Widowmakers....war production so frenzied that shakedowns wete often done on delivery flights. They also made gorgeous exec conversions post war, though only a handful were done.....usually replaced the 4 blade Curtiss Electrics with Ham Standard 3 blade oil props. Fast, Dangerous airplane...short wings were roughly 135 mph landing speed....about same as Boeing 737......veteran pilots in short wings(54 lbs per sq ft wing load)scored fw 190's & 109's in dogfights......very slippery birds....a handful.
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[Bladecutter]

 

[Bladecutter]

SWEET...
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