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Flying a b-17 last spring.
Absolutely incredible
Here's the front end of the turbocharger @BScore posted. That "2800" wasn't just a name, it was HP too.
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Very frightening.
Poached from: https://hushkit.net/2023/02/20/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-p-47-thunderbolt/
Very frightening.
Found myself with some extra time in Dulles last week, decided id check out the national air and space museum. This is by far one of the coolest places in the country.
As close as it gets.... As always, my own photos.
Fresh/free plane wash.
Before Sunrise - long exposure panning:
Two for One:
Time exposure - four takeoffs doing the noise avoidance turn at KTPA
Fresh/free plane wash.
Before Sunrise - long exposure panning:
Two for One:
Time exposure - four takeoffs doing the noise avoidance turn at KTPA
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Got the same opportunity a few years ago. Incredible experience. You turn the yoke/step on the pedal, and wait…
Watched this guy paint for 10 minutes, told him he was doing the lord’s work. I always loved nose art….. and a set of titties on an aircraft. 
Notice similarities between the Wildcat and the P-51A I pictured. (sorta chubby and unclean) Then look at the Bearcat and the P-51H. The designs truly smoothed up as the war progressed. I was fairly shocked at how much two totally different aircraft (the Bearcat and the H model Mustang) could appear so similar in profile. (Yes, I know one has a radial the other has an inline and one has an underbelly radiator, but its the overall profile)
I have a few I can contribute when I get to my desktop
I have to laugh at the Transformers movie filmed there. They 'wake up' the SR71 who breaks down that hangar door and presto! they're in the desert at Davis Monthan.
Ummm sure
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The Ink Squirts was a cartoon strip famous during the war
This B-25 took nose art a good step further than the norm
This B-25 took nose art a good step further than the norm
love it....
Nose Art – The Most Unique Art by Pilots During WWII
Nose Art created a powerful bond between men and machines. Pilots wanted to see airplanes as almost human entities they could identify with.
www.dailyartmagazine.com 
@RUTGERS95 - outstanding. When I was in elementary school (and getting pretty old) a kid in our class father was on the famous “deliver the Fat Boy” mission in this aircraft. If I remember correctly, he was the navigator.
“P-51…Cadillacof the sky!” Loved that movie.
Other one a Sky Raider? Yeah, my a/c ID fu is weak these days. lol
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@Baron23 that’s a T-28 Trojan. Not a great photo, but this one’s based at my airport. It served in VT-5 on the USS Lexington, apparently. When he bought it, it had the markings of VT-3, and since he served in VT-3 he decided to leave it. Other than that and some semi-updated avionics, it’s pretty much original. It even has the old-school mechanical rotating beacons that he restored!
USN Heritage Flight - sweet! I just hope the new kid can meet expectations... If formation flight is any indication, it is already behind.
Dad worked on these two prototypes in the 40's. XF-91 Thunderceptor. One is at Dayton AFB, I was able to take him to see it before he passed. Republic Aviation, he retired from there and went to Grumman Aerospace down the road. There he worked on this X-29 and I was able to work with him on it. We are both retired from Grumman, Home of the Cats.
From the Fantasy of Flight Collection in Polk County FL.
Nice! We have one in about as good a shape as that just a few miles up the road at American Huey 369. A guy I trained is the one who flies it most and he stopped in for some gas back in February. After I filled them up, he let me take it for a lap in the pattern. Seeing as the first helicopter I ever flew in was an old ‘47, it was a life-long dream realized to be able to throw a few tenths for one into my logbook. They’re such sweet little ships!
Reminds me of the Titan sub but built within engineering tolerances by real aeronautical engineers.
Hey the Titan sub worked fine for 26 dives, 27th was past its useable life. Now we know. LOL.
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