DogOnPorch Posted January 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2021 Stipa-Caproni 'Flying Barrel' (1933) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni The dawn of the jet age came with this and similar machines. The slightly tapered barrel fuselage produced a venturi effect making for a more efficient tractor. But it simply wasn't efficient enough to justify all the ungainly aspects of the machine. Give it a few years... Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted January 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 Great scene now in 4k... From Strategic Air Command Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) A great Canadian aircraft...airshow favorite of the day. The de Havilland DHC-4/C-7 Caribou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-4_Caribou Saw extensive use in Viet-Nam from early-on. Its raw power and unimproved-short field capabilities made it a natural for the job. Just over 300 made. Used by the CIA's "Air America" on occasion. Many other 'foreign' operators over the years...some still in use, I'm sure. Edited January 25, 2021 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 Target For Today (1944) Sequel to Target for Tonight (1941) Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted January 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 Beautifully preserved Lockheed Hudson bomber in late war Aussie markings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Hudson Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted January 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 The Douglas DC-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-8 I spent a lot of time aboard various versions of this aircraft as a yoot. More than the 707 which I didn't really see a lot of at Canadian airports I frequented. Air Canada-TCA and Canadian Pacific both used the DC-8. CP I believed leased a bunch of 707s at some point to take care of the soaring demand for jet travel. I'm sure Air Canada did as well...but these rigs were the luxury machine of the day for many major airlines. First class REALLY was... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Air_Lines Model 43 Model 63 stretch... Trans Canada Airlines...proto-Air Canada Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 The somewhat awesome Cessna 195 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_195 This was Cessna's "Beaver"...fairly fast for an old girl. A real beauty... Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted February 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) Witchcraft...one of the few B-24 Liberators still flying. A B-24J to be precise. A later model. You can tell late from early models...generally...by the nose. If it has a turret...late. No turret...just glass...early. The Liberator was the less famous but more numerous partner to Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress. Preferred in the Pacific Theater to the Fortress due to its better range plus ability to fit "Tokyo Tanks" in part of the bomb bay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator Diamond Lil is the other airworthy example. It's dressed-up as an A model B-24. Very first run. Note the early-war US markings. They were changed as they could be confused with the Japanese Rising Sun "Meatball" markings in a pinch. "A" models were quickly upgraded to "D" models for the main production run. They sported the more powerful P&W R-1830-43 Twin Wasp supercharged engine. You can see the difference on the engine cowlings...later has the twin intakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_B-24_Liberators Edited February 2, 2021 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted February 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) The Flying Tigers: First American Volunteer Group (AVG) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Volunteer_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers Nationalist Chinese Air Force...the good guys. Not the Communists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Chinese_Nationalist_air_force_(1937–1945) Contrary to popular myth, the AVG did not see its first combat until the 20th of December, 1941. While the Nationalist Chinese Air Force had been fighting the Japanese for years already, the AVG did not fight before Pearl Harbor as some seem to think. The aircraft of choice was the P-40B Tomahawk/Warhawk...minus various items not found in the export version including radios and reflector gunsights! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk Pay was high for the time...and was about three times what one would make in the regular USAAC/USAAF. It attracted quite a few who sought both adventure and combat. Greg 'Pappy' Boyington perhaps being the best known of the group... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington On the 4th of July, 1942, the AVG was absorbed back into the USAAF...but the air war over China continued. Edited February 12, 2021 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted February 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2021 Jimmy Stewart in... Cowboy 57 (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0917950/ A USAF Strategic Air Command public info film on the B-52 and its crews... Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted February 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted March 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) Fairey Gannet spooling-up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet The Gannet had a unique double folding wing...needed to fit inside Royal Navy aircraft carrier elevators of the time. Edited March 15, 2021 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted August 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2022 Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted September 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2022 Unloading an Atlas missile from a C-133 Cargomaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-133_Cargomaster Last flight to the museum. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogOnPorch Posted October 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 A clip from a few years back on the MOAB being dropped by the C-130 Hercules. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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