Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

 

[flyincowboy]

NOT SO COOL FLYING TROUGH FLACK

 

[Kermit3D]

August 1939. "Pilot Jacqueline Cochran and Northrop 'Gamma' racing plane." Medium format negative by Toni Frissell for Vogue.

 

[VeraVoulik]

August 1939. "Pilot Jacqueline Cochran and Northrop 'Gamma' racing plane." Medium format negative by Toni Frissell for Vogue.

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The Jacqueline Auriol's challenger

 

[VeraVoulik]

And so, I must post this one

 

[Kermit3D]

Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1911. "Senorita Lenore Riviero with Antony Jannus in Rex Smith aeroplane." Please fasten your seatbelts (or skirts) while we prepare for departure. Tony Jannus, the pioneering but short-lived Washington aviator, a few years before his final flight landed him somewhere at the bottom of the Black Sea.

 

[Kermit3D]

"Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921." Two giant horns with ear tubes, evidently designed to listen for approaching aircraft.

 

[flyincowboy]

BOMBING MISSION

 

[ausreenactor]

Lowrider...

 

[ausreenactor]

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'Pith take'

 

[flyincowboy]

While waiting for the shooting The War lover

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[Kermit3D]

 

[Kermit3D]

What is this jacket ?

 

[B-Man2]

Ahhhh…. There ya go!
We’re getting it right from the pilot that the P-47 Thunderbolt was the number 1 fighter during the war !!……….. uhhh….?? … no ?? That’s not what he’s saying ?? …… hmm … and I thought I knew WWII fighter pilot hand signals.

 

[Pilot]

 

[Micawber]

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Galland & Bader.

 

[Kermit3D]

Adolf Galland, Stanford Tuck and Douglas Bader

 

[Kermit3D]

New artificial legs were air dropped after a personal request from Galland.

 

[Grant]

For fellow denim heads: February 1943. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline tank trailers for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army." Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.