The most beatiful photograph?

[Andrew]

I have a few I can't decide which I like most;

From the IWM, a Canadian Spit on ground attack practice. Shame it's so small.

Howard Hugh's plane

Marauders

 

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Too big: The Boeing XB-15 was the big sister and concept plane for the B-17, but didn't take to the air until a few years later — just another '30s superplane that fell victim to the limits of engine technology.
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The B-15 spreads her 149' wings.
Chase plane is a Boeing P-29, a failed, closed cockpit update of the P-26 Peashooter.


Public relations at an air show, or possibly her home base of Langley Field, Va., circa 1939.
Note C-33s (DC-2s) and the C-45 (Twin Beech) in the background.

 

[dadgad]

I like this a lot

 

[dadgad]

 

[Anonymous]

http://www.prbsystems.com/pics/hinton.jpg This is sweet. T-BOLT JUST TRYING TO REDEEM MYSELF ON THIS POST.

 

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Curtiss O2C Helldivers in formation over Brooklyn in 1932.
This plane was also known as F8C when in fighter use. The planes sent out after King Kong in the original and recent movies were O2Cs.

USS Los Angeles ZR-3 over lower Manhattan, about 1928.
Acquired from Germany in war reparations, she was the longest lived of the Navy rigid dirigibles, thanks to being permanently grounded in 1932. She was used for training and experiments until scrapped in 1939.

USS Akron ZRS-4 in the same position, about 1932.
A much larger ship than Los Angeles, but looking about the same size at higher altitude. Several very tall buildings have popped up in the Wall Street neighborhood since 1928.

 

[tamoko]

:lol:

 

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I've heard of inflight engine maintenance...but when you're the pilot?!!...

 

[Anonymous]

Great pics of lower Manhattan!

 

[yankee air pirate]

A moment frozen in time...
B-10s from Hamilton Field coming over San Francisco, January 28, 1936.
Visible in the distance is the not yet completed Golden Gate Bridge.

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A visual poem in form and scale...
The stern of the Graf Zeppelin, at mooring somewhere in Germany, late 1920s-early '30s.

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When giants lived in the sky...
The Graf coming down to land at Cairo, Egypt, April 11, 1931.

Thats a great shot of the b-10's over San Francisco. You can see the neighborhood where I grew up though my house is just cut of from the picture. The b-17 shot is one of the best I ever seen.

 

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Thanks yankee and chgo. I should confess though - the reason I post all this 1930s stuff (here and in other threads) is not just my passion for the period. I also have a subtly subversive antimilitarist (tho not antimilitary) agenda.

Despite the USA having the most buzz-cut fast-talking machine-disciplined armed forces in world history, we have managed to f up a long dragged-out war with a mob of fuzzy-bearded car-bombing cockroaches. I'd like us to go back in our mentality to a time before we were the supreme world power and see if we can learn anything from those relatively civilian-ized professional warriors. Not about strategy or tactics of course, but about what the hell it is we're fighting for and about in the first place.

 

[Anonymous]

...what the hell it is we're fighting for and about in the first place.

YOU don't know?

 

[Anonymous]

...what the hell it is we're fighting for and about in the first place.

YOU don't know?

Wow! You are a bad man!

 

[dujardin]

hello Peter,

i took endlessly time to answer your post. good photo you propose.

good too see also photos of other members

those are 2 photos i enjoy

byeeeeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks yankee and chgo. I should confess though - the reason I post all this 1930s stuff (here and in other threads) is not just my passion for the period. I also have a subtly subversive antimilitarist (tho not antimilitary) agenda.

Despite the USA having the most buzz-cut fast-talking machine-disciplined armed forces in world history, we have managed to f up a long dragged-out war with a mob of fuzzy-bearded car-bombing cockroaches. I'd like us to go back in our mentality to a time before we were the supreme world power and see if we can learn anything from those relatively civilian-ized professional warriors. Not about strategy or tactics of course, but about what the hell it is we're fighting for and about in the first place.

You mean a time when we felt we had God and country on our side? (sorry I used the term god, I did not mean to offend Muslims and all the other religions that are allowed to do and say whatever they want without retribution).

 

[Anonymous]

hello Peter,

i took endlessly time to answer your post. good photo you propose.

good too see also photos of other members

those are 2 photos i enjoy

byeeeeeeeeeeee marcel

M the P-40 pic is awesome.

 

[tamoko]

..
i took endlessly time to answer your post. good photo you propose.
good too see also photos of other members
those are 2 photos i enjoy........
byeeeeeeeeeeee marcel

WOW Marcel, thank you . This is my new desktop image. Really cool grill ! :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

..
i took endlessly time to answer your post. good photo you propose.
good too see also photos of other members
those are 2 photos i enjoy........
byeeeeeeeeeeee marcel

WOW Marcel, thank you . This is my new desktop image. Really cool grill ! :lol:

Yep, great images.

Not so beautiful...

 

[Anonymous]

Marky:

...felt we had God and country on our side? (sorry I used the term god, I did not mean to offend Muslims and all the other religions that are allowed to do and say whatever they want without retribution).

Wow! Little Annie C.'s got a labia pinched in her panties!

 

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I dunno, I'm just kinda nostalgic for the days when we only went to war against people who had attacked us, and not in the name of geopolitical globaloney or notions of manhood or loyalty to leaders.

Back to pictures. Here's a P-51 at sunset. Isn't it lovely?