Warbird Information Exchange

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this site are the responsibility of the poster and do not reflect the views of the management.
It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:24 am

All times are UTC - 5 hours


Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 30 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:49 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Originally posted by Mark Allen. Images restored 11-03-2018. Scott WRG Editor

... Not pranged, broken, busted or bent, no fire damage and not water logged, not even torn fabric ... just FILTHY!!!! and as it's that some of you's dudes like the weathered and dirty look. Here's a few. Sources NMNA archives, SDASM archives, my stuff.

Part 1

Image
Image P01: SBD

Image
Image P02: F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of VF-10 on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6).

Image
Image P03: F4U-1 Corsair VMF-222 Munda Airfield New Georgia Solomon Islands

Image
Image P04: Grumman FM-2 Wildcat

Image
Image P05: TBF-1 of Night Torpedo Squadron Ninety-One [VT(N)-91], pictured at Carle Place on Long Island, NY

Image
Image P06: 25th PRS F5D Nadzab New Guinea

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:54 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Part 2

More embarrassingly disgusting filth ...
Image
F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft from VF-9 is flying in WestPac. The pilot was Gene Valencia 1944

Image
Lockheed P-38 Lightning flying along the coast of Queensland Aust. c 1943

Image
Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIC

Image
TBM, with Torpedo Squadron Eighty-Seven (VT-87), pictured in flight at NAS Oceana, VA 1945

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:06 am 
Offline

Joined: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm
Posts: 140
Now those are warbirds looking the way they should (IMHO).

Cheers,

Jeff


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 11:02 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Part 3

Image
XTBF-3 right front view with drop tanks. Exhaust system modified.

Image
F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft of VF-88 is on the ground at NAB Marpi, Saipan.

Image
Lt. General James H. Doolittle, Gets The Feel Of This Lockheed P-38 Lightning Fighter Plane Just Before He Takes Off On A Short Flight. 23 March 1944

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 11:27 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Part 4
(this is an easy thread because unlike most of today's warbirds being spit-polished mirror machines, most all the vintage photos are what your seeing here.

Some multi-engine Filth ...


Image
Burma Bridge Buster B-25

Image
397th Bomb Group B-26

Image
B-24 of the 701st Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force.

Image
Formation Of Douglas A-20's Attached To The 410Th Bomb Group, Enroute To A Mission Over Enemy Territory In Europe

Image
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:58 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu May 16, 2013 5:29 am
Posts: 115
Location: NAS Pax River
Those are so over weathered...not realistic at all!


Thanks for sharing, some really good modeling reference right there.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 1:58 pm 
Offline
1000+ Posts!
1000+ Posts!
User avatar

Joined: Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:51 pm
Posts: 1185
Location: Chandler, AZ
AFWhite wrote:
Those are so over weathered...not realistic at all!


Thanks for sharing, some really good modeling reference right there.


Didn't Fine Scale Modeler do an article for April Fools a few years back? Included all of the tech orders to let air out of the tires for proper bulging, outline the most used or distinctive panels and ban any and all cleaning operations for the duration.

_________________
Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 4:03 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
More fouled up filthy flying machines ...

Image
P-40K 14th AF

Image
P-51B/C "Hun Flusher" with a nice view of a Malcolm hood. I guess more worn than dirty.

Image
British Mark V Spitfire Used By The U.S. Air Force At Membury Airdrome, England. 15 March 1943

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 4:16 pm 
Offline
Long Time Member
Long Time Member
User avatar

Joined: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:43 pm
Posts: 7501
Location: northern ohio
the dirt & weathering just adds to the warbirds character & flavor as "war horses"!!

_________________
tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 4:54 pm 
Offline
2000+ Post Club
2000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:23 pm
Posts: 2319
Location: Atlanta, GA
I was going to add an A-1 picture and then I thought, "What if the dirt & oil is just normal?" :wink:

Image

_________________
"Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves."


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 4:59 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Interesting there's not one photo that shows someone came along and wrote "Wash me" or "I wish my wife was this dirty" ... :wink: :hide:

Image
Two Marine SB2-C Helldivers flying in formation over the Pacific.

Image
Fw190

Image
F4U of the Royal Navy 1842 Squadron of HMS Formidable taken aboard CV-38 at an unknown location.

Image
Hawker Typhoon 2 RNAS Henstridge April 1944

Image
SB2C-3

Image
P-47

Image
Six USAAF Bell P-39 Airacobras in flight

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 5:02 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm
Posts: 198
Ken wrote:
"What if the dirt & oil is just normal?"

I'd say far from normal here Ken


Image
12Th Af Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Flown By 1St Lt. Edwin L. King Of New Lebanon, Ohio

Image
12Th Af Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Flown By 1St Lt. Edwin L. King Of New Lebanon, Ohio

Image
SBD-5 of Bombing Squadron Ten (VB-10) off USS Enterprise (CV-6) pictured in flight during operations against Palau, Woeai, and Yap Islands.

_________________
WIX_Archive posts sponsored by:
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 6:44 pm 
Offline
3000+ Post Club
3000+ Post Club
User avatar

Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:02 am
Posts: 4606
Location: Yucca Valley, CA
Thanks again Mark!
Was that last photo followed by shots of them ditching? :shock: At least the sea looks pretty calm.
By the way, if you want dirt, how about some stateside trainers?
Come to think of it, how about a B-17 trainer thread? I've been on a trainer markings kick lately.

_________________
Image
All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:29 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:59 pm
Posts: 817
Location: Redmond,Oregon
I finally got around to scanning the pictures in my albums from the 1981 Alaska Fish Haul.I'll start a thread on that soon.In the meantime,while not technically warbirds,these three are definitely dirty.I'll use the captions from my albums for these pictures. You'll have to excuse the lopsided framing of the pictures. I can't remove them from the albums without destroying them and they aren't perfectly square in the albums.

Image

Ex-USMC C-117D/R4D-8's Buno 17166 and 12437 (City of Yuma and Raquel) Fresh from the Davis-Monthan AFB boneyard.Both were last stationed at MCAS Yuma,AZ. At Sequioa Field,CA. in late 1980.

I flew 12437 for about 150 hours during the Alaska Fish Haul between June and August 1981.

Image

Daryl Nobbley parking Boxcar N3003 on the wash rack at Homer,AK. Boxcar N8093 is parked on the Fish Ramp. Looking north in August 1981.

Image

Daryl Nobbley and Dave Eck prepare for a southeast departure from the High Strip on Egegik Beach. The Boxcar is H&P's C-119G N8093. July 1981


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:45 pm 
Offline
1000+ Posts!
1000+ Posts!
User avatar

Joined: Wed May 05, 2004 8:03 pm
Posts: 1081
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Hey neat, Boxcar N8093 again!

One of my favourite Warbirds--because it was so perfectly, authentically ratty-looking--was the Mustang that used to appear once in a blue moon at air shows while in the care of the Tallichet collection. Wearing not-quite-correct 55FG livery and the name "Dixie", she looked like a full-scale 3D presentation of a 1945 Kodachrome slide.

Hm, there's a photo-thread idea: shots of so-bad-they're-perfect weatherbeaten Warbirds...

S.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 30 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC - 5 hours


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 83 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group