Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
And an interesting shot of an inspector of North American Aviation in Inglewood, California, looking over a Mustang Mk I fighter destined for the British Royal Air Force in the autumn of 1942
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This weekends photo.
The third Ta 152A prototype, the Fw 190V21, W.Nr. 0043, TI+IH, first flew on 13 March 1944 with Focke¬Wulf experimental test pilot Bernhard Marschel at the controls.
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This weekends extra.
Operation Moolah was an effort by the US government to pay $100K to any defecting MiG-15 pilot. Its pilot, Lt. No Kum-Sok defected to Kimpo Airbase, South Korea, in 1953.This photo depicts '616' during 11 days of testing at Kadena Air Base, Japan, immediately following the defection.'616' now resides permanently in the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The aircraft is on display in its original North Korean Air Force markings.
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This midweeks photo.
Robert L. Brown of Denver, Colorado, poses in the cockpit of an F6F Hellcat aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) with Scrappy, the ship’s mascot, November-December 1943._with_Scrappy_the_ship_s_mascot_November-December_1943..jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
