Photo of the week
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This weekends extra.
A nice shot of a very smart looking 3595th Pilot Training Wing, North American P-51D, Serial # 45-11608 (part of the Fighter School 3525 Aircraft Gunnery Squadron). The P-51, later F-51, was flown at Nellis Air Force Base for gunnery training from 1949-1952.
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This midweeks photo.
Lancaster BIII RE172, newly built at Yeadon. On a test flight from Woodford over Fallowfield, Manchester, flown by A.F.Cook.Later delivered to 37 Squadron at Fayid.27/04/1945
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This weekends photos.
Some super shots of Northrop A-17A 's assigned to the 17th Attack Squadron taken at Boulder City (Boulder Dam) Airport, circa 1938.
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This weekends extra.
And a new one to me.
In 1925 a brand new two-seater sport triplane - based or inspired on the Fokker Dr.I triplane - was built in Germany. It was a design of Eng. Gunther and the machine was built by the Vagel-Grip Flugzeugbau at Berlin - Adlershof. Only one example was built, which was allotted the civil registration D-664.
The Vagel-Grip firm identified this triplane as the SP-5 named Greif (Griffon/Gryphon in English). To complicate things further the machine was financed by the Sarotti firm, see the name behind the cowling.
The SP-5 was powered by a Thulin, A rotary from Sweden rated at 90 hp.
This two-seat triplane was flown by flight pioneer Max Schüler in the Berliner Zeitung Flug of 1925, but due to the malfunctioning of the Thulin rotary it was not successful. In 1926 the SP-5 was entered for the Süddeutschlandflug, with the same result, a malfunctioning engine.
After 1926 it flew advertisement flights for chocolat firms, but the machine crashed in November 1931.
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This midweeks photo.
Taken in the Philippines, a sad end to so many fighters, but interesting for skinners and model makers.
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This weekends photo.
And a nice closeup of a Martin Baltimore Mk IIIA FA353 “X” of No. 69 Squadron RAF at Luqa, Malta.
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This weekends extra.
Lt. Leroy Price poses standing with his hand on the propeller of a North American P-51 Mustang of the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (118TRS, "Black Lightning Squadron"), 23rd Fighter Group (23FG), Fourteenth Air Force, at Suichwan, China, mid November 1944.
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This midweeks photo.
And a nice shot taken in France of a RCAF Spitfire Mk IX, of 441 Squadron.
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This weekends photo.
Ju 290 A-4 no. 0165, which had been equipped with attachments for Fritz X, Hs 293, and Hs 294 PGM ordnance, and fitted with FuG 203e Kehl radio guidance gear for controlling such PGM ordnance, was surrendered to the U.S. Renamed Alles Kaputt, and numbered FE 3400, it was flown to the US by Colonel Harold E. Watson from Orly, Paris to Wright Field on 28 July 1945, via the Azores. The captured aircraft, with its Nazi insignia repainted, was a frequent performer at air shows at Freeman Field and Wright Field. When the aircraft was scrapped at Wright Field in 1946, a plastic explosive device of German manufacture was discovered in the wing near to a fuel tank.
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This weekends extra.
And a detailed night shot of a RAAF Beaufort getting ready for a training flight in Australia.
