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[Ultra mag]

i see ur a fan of the black widow , me too. my dad was on the ground crew in ww2 these in burma …

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[Basket case]

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Spent 40 years on the bottom of Lake Michigan

 

[Dave6T4]

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Grumman Avenger. Likely one of the largest airplanes powered by a single engine. You don't get a sense of how big these things are from a photo; you have to stand beside one. A local company had 3 or 4 of these they used as forestry water bombers. In the off-season they were stored at St. Thomas airport, across the highway from where I used to live. One of these is now at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton, Ontario. They also have a Vampire jet, as shown in a previous post.

 

[mrhemi]

That is a Grumman Wildcat fighter. An Avenger is much larger.

 

[Dave6T4]

Oops. You're right, Mike. I guess I didn't look at it close enough. Thanks.

 

[dart4forte]

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Tiger killer

 

[Basket case]

Oops. You're right, Mike. I guess I didn't look at it close enough. Thanks.

This is an Avenger...

 

[Floyd]

My dad flew Hellcats in WW2 and did his carrier quals on Lake Michigan. He had some limited time in Wildcats and told me a story about the manual landing gear retraction system they had. He said you could see the plane waggle on climb out as the pilot was cranking the landing gear up by hand.

Pic of his squadron operating off the USS RANDOLPH in early 1945.

 

[Basket case]

My dad flew Hellcats in WW2 and did his carrier quals on Lake Michigan. He had some limited time in Wildcats and told me a story about the manual landing gear retraction system they had. He said you could see the plane waggle on climb out as the pilot was cranking the landing gear up by hand.

Something like 39 1/2 cranks. Kermit Weeks has a great two part video of him flying his Wildcat and mentions the landing gear.

 

[AR67GTX]

As I understand it 5223 enemy aircraft were shot down by the Hellcat in WWII, the most of any Allied fighter including the P51. Some seem to dispute that the Mustang wasn’t #1 and I don’t know for a fact. But most say the Hellcat. It reportedly didn’t take many rounds to flame one of those Japanese planes that lacked armor and self-sealing tanks.

 

[hemi71x]

These F-5's were on the way to Iran, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, back in 1975 when we had decent relations with that country.
They were brand new with only 16 hours on them.
Took the picture before the big Ramstein air show, when i was temporary duty there as the crew chief, for the RF-4C Phantom, from Zweibruken AB, that was on display.

 

[mmissile]

These F-5's were on the way to Iran, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, back in 1975 when we had decent relations with that country.
They were brand new with only 16 hours on them.
Took the picture before the big Ramstein air show, when i was temporary duty there as the crew chief, for the RF-4C Phantom, from Zweibruken AB, that was on display.

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F-5 looks like it's gone supersonic on the tarmac.

 

[hemi71x]

F-5 looks like it's gone supersonic on the tarmac.

Pretty sure a clean tanked F-5 can go Mach 1.6 at high altitude.

 

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