Random Cool Photo Thread

[flyincowboy]

Lancaster cleaning

 

[ausreenactor]

One of the 2 pillars of our victory in WW2. We had way more stuff- inconceivably more stuff. And Russian blood- inconceivable amounts of it...

Russian blood tapped the German war machine exponentially more than industrialisation...

 

[ausreenactor]

Lancaster cleaning


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Getting it ready for later that night...

 

[Griffon_301]

Looks like a FR MK XIV from here.

late to the show, but that's a PR XIX. that's why there is no cannons in the wings, the space being taken up by additional fuel tanks...

the FR XIVs were Fighter Recon types, being fully armes and having cameras in addition behind the cockpit... one of the early "razorback" FR XIV has been restored to flying condition last year for an owner in France... would love to see her fly at an UK Airshow this year

 

[Grant]

Somewhere over North Africa in a C-47, US flight Nurse 2nd Lt Julia Corinne Riley chats with injured British soldiers. Could she be wearing a Monarch?

 

[Smithy]

Somewhere over North Africa in a C-47, US flight Nurse 2nd Lt Julia Corinne Riley chats with injured British soldiers. Could she be wearing a Monarch?

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And original 1930s/40s boat shoes (Sperry?) to boot. I've been known to team an A-2 with a pair of Sperrys on a summer evening and I have a sneaking suspicion that Vic does the same.

 

[YoungMedic]

Wouldn't they be plane shoes?

 

[Grant]

Nah, Vic is a Vans man!

And original 1930s/40s boat shoes (Sperry?) to boot. I've been known to team an A-2 with a pair of Sperrys on a summer evening and I have a sneaking suspicion that Vic does the same.

 

[sunflo9968]

I believe those shoes are LL Bean camp Mocs.

 

[Kermit3D]

Dornier Do 335 Pfeil

 

[Kermit3D]

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter in Alaska, 1943.

 

[Micawber]

Leonard 'Ace' Haines

 

[Kermit3D]

BMW vs Mercedes

 

[Kermit3D]

"Divin’ right in". Pilots manual for the Republic P-47 “Jug”

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[ES335]

Dornier Do 335 Pfeil

An Arado jet bomber in the background?

No wonder we snatched these guys up after the war.

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[Smithy]

I'm certain I've posted this before but bugger it I'm posting it again as it's one of my absolute favourites of a USAAF heavy bomber crew and an original period colour photograph...

 

[Smithy]

Incredible photo this one as it's a proper combat photo. Kiwis under fire whilst assaulting a building occupied by German Fallschirmjäger at Cassino...

 

[Kermit3D]

An Arado jet bomber in the background?

No wonder we snatched these guys up after the war.

Yes ! well seen...
Hard to imagine that only 40 years before this photo was taken, aviation had just been invented.