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Curtiss SBC-3 of Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) from USS Enterprise (CV-6) Flies low past USS Mustin (DD-413), during exercises on 26 May 1940.

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Some shots of Consolidated Liberator B.VI aircraft KG923 AM of No. 5 Operational Training Unit R.C.A.F. 23 AUG 1944.

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And staying with the RCAF, some wonderful shots taken in British Columbia of a flight of Hurricane Mk I's and a Northrop Delta I.(circa 1939)

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And adding some wonderful colour shots taken at Meacham Field, Fort Worth Texas 1942 of student pilots.

This weekends photo taken July 1944.
A Hawker Hurricane Mark IV of No. 6 Squadron RAF being serviced at Foggia, Italy, prior to a sortie over the Adriatic. Note the asymmetric wing loading on the aircraft, consisting of a 44-gallon long-range fuel tank under the port wing, and four 3-inch rocket projectiles under the starboard: also the Type G45 gun camera being serviced by the airman standing second from the right. Propped up by the starboard undercarriage is the port lower engine access panel, on which is painted the pilot's personal emblem.

This weekends extra,and a wonderful one at that.
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Its not every day you get your own personal B-29.Taken on Guam early 1945. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific-Pacific Ocean Area (CINCPAC-POA), receives his new toy.

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Bristol began building an initial prototype by taking a partly-built Beaufort out of the production line. This conversion served to speed progress; Bristol had promised series production in early 1940 on the basis of an order being placed in February 1939. Designers expected that maximum re-use of Beaufort components would speed the process but the fuselage required more work than expected and had to be redesigned. Perhaps in anticipation of this, the Air Ministry had requested that Bristol investigate the prospects of a 'slim fuselage' configuration. Since the "Beaufort cannon fighter" was a conversion of an existing design, development and production was expected to proceed more quickly than with a new one. Within six months the first F.11/37 prototype, R2052, had been completed. A total of 2,100 drawings were produced during the transition from Beaufort to the prototype Beaufighter, more than twice as many were created during later development, between the prototype Beaufighter and the fully operational production models. Two weeks prior to the prototype's first flight, an initial production contract for 300 aircraft under Specification F.11/37 was issued by the Air Ministry, ordering the type "off the drawing board".

On 17 July 1939, R2052, the first, unarmed, prototype, conducted its maiden flight, a little more than eight months after development had formally started. The rapid pace of development is partly due to the re-use of many elements of the Beaufort design along with frequently identical components. R2052 was initially operated by Bristol for testing purposes while it was based at Filton Aerodrome. Early modifications to R2052 included stiffening of the elevator control circuit, increased fin area and lengthening of the main oleo strut of the undercarriage to better accommodate weight increases and hard landings.

During the pre-delivery trials, the first prototype R2052, powered by a pair of two-speed supercharged Hercules I-IS engines, had achieved 335 mph (539 km/h) at 16,800 ft (5,120 m) in a clean configuration.

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Both taken at Barakoma Airfield, which is located at the southeast corner of Vella Lavella Island,also known as "Fighter Strip".
Both taken late 43.
Below two hellcats collide.(probably of VF-40)

And a Hellcat #6 ends up in a drainage ditch on landing.

This midweeks photo, and a 70th FS P-39 at Torokina Strip Bougainville Island,Solomon Islands.