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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Part 1

18th FS P-36's at Ladd Field, April 1942.

Russian P-39's.

AE-1 Malaria Control Guadalcanal Mar 1945

B-17G as test-bed for Allison T-56 turboprop engine, ca. 1956.

B-18 Bolo and P-40's at Iceland March 1943. Note the band, camera, VIP's and the formations marching along.

Bell Aircraft Exhibit at Smith Memorial Library Chautauqua NY 1944.

Bell P-39 Airacobra At Yarmouth Airfield Nova Scotia

Captured Bf 109F-4, Wright Field.

Captured Bf 109, not sure it's the same as the 109 above.

DC-3 transport getting ready to jump near Tontouta Airport, New Caledonia Jan. 15, 1943

Fairey Firefly fighter planes from the 860 Aircraft Squadron. To the left in front of the hangar are some Auster reconnaissance aircraft. Mandiun. Dutch East Indies (1946)

GE Flight Test Hangar - Summer 1946

P-39 AIRACOBRA FIGHTER Airfield 1943 PANAMA CANAL ZONE.

P-63 at the Rae farnborough

Another P-63 at the Rae farnborough

RNZAF fighter, bomber, and transport planes at RNZAF Station Whenuapai for a Victory Loan Appeal open day 23-9-44.
Corsair NZ5553, Kittyhawk NZ3082, Hudson 2022

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2023 5:37 pm

Nice ones Mr Mark!

Thank you for sharing.

JohnB · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:05 am

About the Russian P-39s...Note the "commandeered" car.
Looks like a Mercedes 540K..or a similar Horch.
Today, survivors are worth millions.
One 540K appropriated by a U.S. Army general immediately after the war. Complete with bullet holes. It survives in original condition...Complete with the holes.

On the internet is a similar shot of Luftwaffe personnel with an American Cord 810/812.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2531

The 109's are two different aircraft. The first one is an F model, the second is a G model.

The F model has two horizontal re-enforcement straps on each side of the fuselage just above the tail wheel that the G lacks.
The G has a bulge mid upper wing for larger wheels/tires when retracted.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:59 am

Thanks for those, Mark.

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1387

Awesome selection Mark: I love the randomness and surprise at each turn. :drink3:

Craig59 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:17 am

Very eclectic, Mark!

What’s the story on the GE B-17 with all the bumps, bulges, and “tip tanks?”

junkman9096 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:44 pm **Posts:** 238

I'd like to offer the opinion that the photos ostensibly at the GE airfield were taken, at the earliest, in 1948 and likely several years afterwards. Red stripe in the national insignia, the 'U.S. AIR FORCE' on the fuselage and tail being the telling points. The USAF didn't exist until 1947 and marking regulations were released some time after that. The presence of the F-86A bolsters that.

Boy, those are some nice photos.

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1387

junkman9096 wrote:

I'd like to offer the opinion that the photos ostensibly at the GE airfield were taken, at the earliest, in 1948 and likely several years afterwards. Red stripe in the national insignia, the 'U.S. AIR FORCE' on the fuselage and tail being the telling points. The USAF didn't exist until 1947 and marking regulations were released some time after that. The presence of the F-86A bolsters that.

It's an F-86E: date is circa 1951.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

Whoops!! my bad on the dates, locations etc.
Most of these photos have very little, if anything, for descriptions. That's why I refer over to the REAL experts on WIX.

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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7557

B-29 with long horizontal bar running between the aircraft's landing gear that is the antenna for the AN/APQ-7 Eagle radar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APQ-7

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2023 3:09 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

P-63 at the Rae farnborough

Very curious. The American "bubble top" P-63D didn't have the doors.

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1387

Mark Allen M wrote:

Part 1

Further to my last, it's even later: F-86E 50-583 was bailed to General Electric from 19 January 1953 until 24 January 1954. So early 1953 maybe?

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2023 11:01 pm

I am 99% sure the GE field is at the Schenectady County Airport (New York) and the current site of the Empire State Aerosciences Museum.

https://www.esam.org/

Tim

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:48 am

Mark Allen M wrote:

Hey! We have a survivor - and Scott needs a shot of it for the Registry:
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b29regis ... 84084.html

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