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Walter L. Flagg Flight leader 63rd FS 56th FG 2 aerial kills, and his P-47M-1-RE Serial No. 44-21140 marked Darling Dottie on the port and Shoot You're Faded on the starboard.
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Taken on Operation Dragoon D-Day, 15 August 1944, an FAA F6F Hellcat fighter lands on board USS Tulagi, after a raid on an island off Southern France.
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Taken 1943 of 112 Squadron Kittyhawks at Medenine in North Africa.
Curtiss P-40K-15-CU, GA-V FR440 (42-10061 to RAF as Kittyhawk III FR440. DBR when belly landed S of Fayid after engine failed during overshoot), GA-L FR472, (Curtiss P-40K-15-CU, 42-10329 to RAF as Kittyhawk III FR472. SOC May 31, 1944) and possibly GA-D, FR412 or GA-C, FR452 warm up for take off
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This weekends extra.
A photo of a Bloch 152 apparently after making an emergency landing in a field.
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This midweeks photo.
Canadian built Fairchild SBF-4E (SB2C-4E) (Bu# 31895) At NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 17 December 1945._(Bu_31895)_At_NATC_Patuxent_River_Maryland_17_December_1945..jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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Halifax HR926 was one of twenty two No. 35 Squadron aircraft detailed to attack Kassel on the night of the 22nd / 23rd October 1943.
It was equipped with Gee and Nav. Aid Y (H2S) and was carrying 15 x 500lb MC. Its designated Path Finder role was Supporter.
Its seven-man crew comprised:
Stanley Arthur Durrant (Pilot)
Arthur Robert Jordan (Navigator)
Christopher Fiveash Packham (Air Bomber)
Wilfred George Hart (Wireless Operator)
Aubrey Ronald Brace (Air Gunner)
Robert Stanley Kift (Air Gunner)
Walter George Kingham (Flight Engineer)
The route was Base, 5215N 0300E, 5140N 0351E, 5030N 0610E, 5033N 0715E, Kassel, 5236N 0829E, 5313N 0452E, 5320N 0350E, Base
HR926 failed to return and the squadron’s Operations Record Book shows “This aircraft is missing, nothing being heard from it after taking off”.The aircraft had attacked Kassel and was then attacked by a nightfighter flown by the fighter ace Prinz Salmwittchenstein. (Sayn-Wittgenstein). Before it crashed in flames, five of the crew had landed by parachute near Welda, one of these men (the pilot he thought) having been seriously wounded during the fighter attack.
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This weekends extra.
And a nice air to air of Lockheed Vega 2B,in the red and white livery of Varney Speed Lines, Inc (also marked "Now Continental Airlines") most likely during the aircraft's national publicity tour in 1964.She survives today at the Edison Institute, Dearborn, MI
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This midweeks photo.
And a nice air to air of Airwork Ltd Handley Page Hermes IV, G-ALDA circa 1954
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This weekends photo.
Taken at Fort Worth Convair XB-58 55-0660 airplane undergoes maintenance in Run Station #2.
The first B-58, at that time officially designated YB/RB-58 and serialed 55-0660, was completed in late August, and was rolled out of the factory on September 4, 1956. It had little in the way of operational equipment fitted, the available space being taken up primarily by test equipment. 55-0660 made its maiden flight on November 11, 1956, taking off from the Convair Fort Worth facilities at Carswell AFB, Texas. The crew of three consisted of B. A. Erickson, pilot, John. D. McEachern systems specialist, and Charles P. Harrison as flight test engineer. The underfuselage pod was not fitted. The maximum speed reached on the first flight was Mach 0.9. Supersonic flight was first attained on December 30, at which time Mach 1.17 was attained. -
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Taken in 1949 RAN Sea Fury fighters over H.M.A.S. Sydney.
