Photo of the week
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Fridays pics.
P-47 Thunderbolt 42-75185 UN-X Princess Pat 56th Fighter Group 63rd Fighter Squadron possibly flown by Lt. Charles W. Reed.
And /Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-26641 Col. Dave Schilling CO 56th FG.
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Wednesdays pics.
From the "LIFE" archives taken 43 over the Aleutians, of P-38G-10-LO Lightning's of the 344th Fighter Squadron 343rd Fighter Group.
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Fridays photo, and a wonderful shot probably taken at Grumman Bethpage of a French G-36A.
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Wednesdays photo's.
B-26B-At Naval Air Station Anacostia D.C. circa 1942. Note painted-over nose and torpedo cradle beneath the belly.
B-26 Marauder Medium Bomber USAAF Serial 40-1447 On the airfield at Cold Bay Alaska with a Mark XIII aerial torpedo hung below its bomb bay 11 May 1942.
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This weekends shots, & some amazing ones, taken at Naval Air Station Patuxent River Maryland.
PBJ-1D Mitchell patrol bomber Bureau 35094 Undergoing flight tests at Naval Air Station Patuxent River Maryland circa Summer 1943. A Mark XIII torpedo is hung below this PBJs bomb bay.
American PBJ-1D Bu 35094 In flight near NAS Patuxent River Maryland 28 February 1944.
American PBJ-1D Bu 35094 In flight near NAS Patuxent River Maryland 3 June 1944 with landing gear down.
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Staying with B-25's used for tests.
In 1946 the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory became the NACA?s official icing research center. In addition to the Icing Research Tunnel, the lab possessed several aircraft modified for icing work, including a Consolidated B-24M Liberator and a North American XB-25E Mitchell, seen here. The XB-25E?s frequent engine fires allegedly resulted in its ?Flamin? Maimie? nickname. The aircraft?s nose art, visible in this photograph, includes a leather-jacketed mechanic with an extinguisher fleeing a fiery woman. North American developed the B-25 in the mid-1930s as a transport aircraft, but it was hurriedly reconfigured as a medium bomber for World War II. This XB-25E was a single prototype designed in 1942 specifically to test an exhaust gas ice prevention system developed by NACA researcher Lewis Rodert. The system circulated the engines? hot bleed air to the wings, windshield, and tail. The XB-25E was utilized at the NACA?s Ames Aeronautical Laboratory for two years before being transferred to Cleveland in July 1944. NACA Lewis mechanics modified the aircraft further by installing electrical heating in the front fuselage, propellers, inboard sing, cowls, and antennae. Lewis pilots flew the B-24M and XB-25E into perilous weather conditions all across the country to study both deicing technologies and the physics of ice-producing clouds. These dangerous flights led to advances in weather sensing instruments and flight planning.
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