Photo of the week
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This weekends photo.
And a delightful shot of a Wildcat in a revetment, being readied for its next sortie.( No details of when & where)
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Weekend extra.
1st Lt B.P. Bjorseth sits on his 47th Fs 15th AF P-51 wing on Iwo Jima after just landing.
And W. T. Chamberlain relaxes on the wing of a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat 9-F-12 assigned to VF-9 during operation Torch in November 1942 on board USS RANGER CV-4.
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This midweeks photo.
Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai Allied codename George on the ground at NAS Norfolk Virginia May 15 1947.
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This weekends photo's and two aircraft with identical fates.
The TSR2
And the Avro CF-105 Arrow
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Weekend extra
One of the oddest B-47B conversions was the "CL-52", which was a B-47B loaned in 1956 to the Royal Canadian Air Force to test the big Orenda Iroquois turbojet for the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor. Canadair attached the Iroquois engine to the right side of the rear fuselage near the tail, of all places, simply because there was no other place to put it. Flying the CL-52 was reportedly a nightmare.
After about 35 hours of engine flight tests, the Arrow project was cancelled in early 1959, and the B-47B / CL-52 was returned to the US. Some sources claimed it was bent out of shape by the tests, but in any case it was then scrapped. The CL-52 was the only B-47, or for that matter the only US heavy strategic jet bomber, to ever be used by any foreign service.
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This weekends photo's.
And some cracking shots taken on Guam near the end of WWII.
The above photo
The long horizontal bar running between the aircraft's landing gear is the antenna for the Eagle radar.
LINK - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APQ-7 -
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This weekends photo's.
North American Mitchell II probably taken at Boscombe Down
B-25 Mitchell light bombers crewed by Royal Canadian Air Force members taken on February 14 1945.
B25 Bomber Aircraft with H2K.
And a nice shot of a PBJ taken on Oahu.
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Wednesday's photo.
A Marine Wildcat returning to Guadalcanal after a mission.
