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For those who like "Screensavers" ...

Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:02 pm

... and "Desktop backgrounds" ... I'll periodically post the best photos I have or find with no crap and no poor quality. I have several that are outstanding (All Vintage)

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:56 pm

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Four (4) F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of VF-12

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Four ( 4) F4U-1D Corsair aircraft are in flight formation near Moana Loa, HI.

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Three (3) F4U-4 aircraft of VF-783

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:04 pm

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TBF-1C Avenger, with Torpedo Squadron Thirty-Two (VT-32) on CVL-27 (USS Langley), in flight at Oahu.

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TBM-352's and F6F-5's of Attack Training Unit Four Hundred (ATU 400) and ATU-401 flying over NAS Kingsville.

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Sixteen (16) TBM-3E's of Scouting Squadron Twenty-Three (VS-23) in flight formation out of San Diego.

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:11 pm

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B-24 at Fort Worth TX plant

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:15 pm

CBI P-47's and P-38's? 60th FS, 33rd FG? 8)

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:16 pm

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North American BC-1. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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North American BC-1. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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North American BC-1. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:21 pm

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Four (4) F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft of VF-6 are flying over Moana Loa, HI

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Five (5) F6F-5 Hellcat USNR aircraft of NARTU Dallas, TX, assigned to CVG-55 and CVG-83, are in flight near NAS Pensacola, FL.1948

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:29 pm

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XBT2D-1P on the ground.

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:32 pm

The first B-29 photo looks like an 8x10 glossy that Boeing sent to me when as a young boy in response to a letter asking if they would send me pictures of WWII airplanes.

This was somewhere around 1965. If I remember correctly I sent letters to various companies using addresses I found in my c.1963 copy of United States Military Aircraft Since 1909. Boeing, NAA, Convair and Grumman all sent me some really nice glossy B&W prints.

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:33 pm

Great stuff as always Mark. I like the aerial shot of the B-24 sitting on the tarmac. It kind of looks like a model.

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:34 pm

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver in flight

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

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Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:45 pm

Nothings off limits in this thread ... anything that looks good will be posted. (retirement thread)

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Ford C-9

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Ford C-9

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Ford C-9

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:51 pm

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Repainted in USAF markings and insignia, the MiG-15bis under guard and awaiting flight-testing at Okinawa. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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TB-25J BD-439 44-30439 LaCrosse, WI 1955

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Boeing B-50A (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Re: For those who like "Screensavers" ...

Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:11 pm

Dave Lindauer wrote:The first B-29 photo looks like an 8x10 glossy that Boeing sent to me when as a young boy in response to a letter asking if they would send me pictures of WWII airplanes.

This was somewhere around 1965. If I remember correctly I sent letters to various companies using addresses I found in my c.1963 copy of United States Military Aircraft Since 1909. Boeing, NAA, Convair and Grumman all sent me some really nice glossy B&W prints.

4224612 wasn't anything special, just a mid block B-29-40-BW, l/n 4273, in fact it's in another one of Baughers famous holes.

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Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:11 pm

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Martin XB-26H, modified from B-26G-25-MA (SN 44-68221), the next to last production B-26G. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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