Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Napier Sabre engine mounted on a truck for display purposes.2400 hp for Typhoon and Tempest

 

[flyincowboy]

exploded view of an actual B-29,

 

[flyincowboy]

369 TH BG COMBAT ROOM

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[Blackboxr1200S]

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The quality of the pictures never ceases to amaze me. Amazing detail for a 1942 photo.

 

[Saint-ex]

@Blackboxr1200S not vintage leather nor army related but have a look on Lora Webb Nichols's photos, hard to imagine was end of 1800’s

 

[Micawber]

De Havilland Mosquito Mk. XIII flown by the RCAF 409 Squadron, piloted probably by LCol Robert Fullerton (or W/O Bob Boorman (RCAF), makes a low pass under the Eiffel Tower, September 14, 1944.

 

[Flightengineer]

De Havilland Mosquito Mk. XIII flown by the RCAF 409 Squadron, piloted probably by LCol Robert Fullerton (or W/O Bob Boorman (RCAF), makes a low pass under the Eiffel Tower, September 14, 1944.

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Thanks a lot Steve, at one time I collected similar “hooligan” stories from all over the world, and read about this incident, how the RAF crew argued with an American photographer in a bar and how they flew under the tower, but I never saw this photo. Thanks, I'll save it.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Interesting how fighter pilots all have the same quiet self-confident look. IJN air service Lt. Hiroyashi Nishizawa was credited with 87 kills. On 17 May 1942, Nishizawa, Saburo Sakai and Toshio Ota performed a formation aerobatic routine over Port Moresby aerodrome without receiving any ground fire which was acknowledged in a note dropped that night on Nishizawa's base (they were given a bollocking by their superiors). He was killed as a passenger in a transport aircraft on 26 October 1944.

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After the war, Sakai shown his great respect to him, in his memoirs.

 

[dinomartino1]

Fleet air arm pilot Korean war and in his Seafire during ww2

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[Micawber]

From a painting by G.A.Campbell, an unknown ambulance driver early in 1941.

The above caught my eye when appeared in one of the FB Home Front groups recently. FB appears to be a popular source for images appearing here.

 

[Micawber]

De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI, MM401 'SB-J', of No. 464 Squadron RAAF based at Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, parked at Friston Emergency Landing Ground, Sussex.

The aircraft, flown by Squadron Leader A G Oxlade (pilot) and Flight Lieutenant D M Shanks (navigator), was hit by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a flying-bomb site in the Pas de Calais on 21 February 1944. The left engine was shattered, and the left undercarriage and most of the outer right wing was blown off.

Despite the damage, the crew flew MM401 back and crash-landed safely at Friston ELG. The port engine nacelle is seen here supported by a caterpillar tractor to enable the aircraft to be moved off the runway.
The aircraft was initially categorised as repairable (Category b), but this was changed to a write-off (Category E) after the full extent of the damage became clear.

Info C/O DH aircraft FB group.

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[JonnyCrow]

 

[FlakMagnet]

Spot the WW2 surplus

 

[dinomartino1]