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Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:42 am

... as in this thread title. I've come up with some real 'winners' for titles, but this one is easily the worst. :wink:

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This first photo looks like it would be in sequence with the two below, but not so much. Not sure where this was taken but it looks to be somewhere in the UK?

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North Africa-Lockheed F-5 buzzing the field before landing after a photo reconnaissance mission in North Africa c 1944

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North Africa-Lockheed F-5 buzzing the field before landing after a photo reconnaissance mission in North Africa c 1944

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Lockheed P-38 Making A Strafing Pass At A Stationary Target At An Air Base In Panama.

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four 9th Air force Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, returning from a mission against German targets, make the approach to their base at a low altitude.

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:45 am

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A Lockheed P-38 Lightning Buzzes The Field At Valence, France. 8 October 1944.

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Always like this shot. Major Bishop of the 91st Bomb Group buzzes the control tower at Bassingbourn in his B-17 Flying Fortress, c 1943?

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A captured RAF Focke Wulf 190 buzzes a B-17 Flying Fortress and airfield vehicles of the 379th Bomb Group, 8 January 1944.

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:47 am

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Four 39th FS P-38's buzzing 14 Mile strip

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Formation Of Republic P-47 'Thunderbolts' Of The 353Rd Fighter Group Buzz Their Home Base In England.

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P-51's of the Tuskegee Airmen

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Iwo Jima - After The Battle P-51S Buzz Field After Return From Raid On Kyushu. 16 April 1945

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:55 am

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Looks to be P-40's and P-47's over an airfield in the Hawaiian Islands

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Curtiss P-40's 49th FG Buzzing the strip Durand

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Curtiss P-40 Warhawks of The 79th Fighter Group, Based At Capodichino, Italy, Buzz The Field And Peel Off For Landing After A Mission

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Curtiss P-40 Warhawks of The 79th Fighter Group, Based At Capodichino, Italy, Buzz The Field And Peel Off For Landing After A Mission

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:05 pm

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Another favorite shot. An F-5 Lightning of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group take off from the snowy runway at Mount Farm

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Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:08 pm

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Douglas C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command, Is Shown Flying Low Over A Glider It Will Snatch From The Ground

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C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Flies Low Over A Field During A 'Snatch Pickup' Of A Cg-4A Glider, 'Old Canvas Sides' Somewhere In France. 3 February 1945

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C-47 Of The 9Th Troop Carrier Command Flies Low Over A Field During A 'Snatch Pickup' Of A Cg-4A Glider, 'Old Canvas Sides' Somewhere In France. 3 February 1945

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:23 pm

Guess who this is ...

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Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:26 pm

B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-85784), currently known as 'Sally B'

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Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:32 pm

Never a shortage of new 'lows' for me ... lots more

Below P-47 Thunderbolts attack a group of tanks during Operation Rainbow West Germany c 1950

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Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:30 pm

More dirty low down business

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Great looking Spit.

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Three low flying RAF Avro Lancasters

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A low flying RAF Avro Lancaster with three feathered. wow!

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:24 pm

The second to last photo, showing three Lancasters flying together, are the aircraft that were used for the making of the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters".

That last photo is an Avro Lincoln...but here is a Lancaster with the same number of props feathered (it was covered on the Key forum a while back http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?132177).

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Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:55 pm

Just remember you can only tie the record for lowest fly by.....

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:11 pm

OK.....for the aircraft ID sleuths. Looking at that wing or fuselage piece at the bottom of the pic, what plane did it go to?


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Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:26 am

The B-17 Sallie B (485784) is shown both with and without the ball and chin turrets. Anyone know which is the latest configuration and if this plane is still around?

Bill

Re: Has to be one of my all time lows ...

Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:48 am

8th Sq, 3rd Attack Group. Hollandia

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89th Sq, 3rd Attack Group. A/C and crew went MIA shortly after pic was taken


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