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An early B-25A
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...Mexico1944.jpg
B-25G
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...009/PBJ-1H.jpg
PBJ-1H
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...ussian-1-1.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...-Russian-2.jpg
Taken 44/45 on a delivery flight to the USSR
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...y009/TB-25.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...09/TB-25-1.jpg
Two TB-25's taken post war.
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...hell-180Sq.jpg
A 180Sq Mitchell being displayed to the press

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This could be my BEST NEW thread... Thanks
DH [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

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How about some Corsairs @ NAS Akron Ohio.

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Wow, these are some great photos. Thanks for sharing.

Phil Woj

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Goodyear built F2G with the massive P&amp;W R4360 4 row 28 cylinder engine. Only 10 were built as WWII come to a close.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: smallblockhero</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...y009/TB-25.jpg</div></div>

I always liked the postwar schemes on wartime planes. This TB-25 was used by MATS (Military Air Transport Service), possibly as a proficiency airplane in squadrons that operated large 4-engined transports. They were also used in Air Training Command in pilot training squadrons for student pilots on their way to bomber and transport assignments. (Fighter-bound students went on the T-33.) When the USAF re-introduced the old style of dual-track flight training in 1994 they bought the Beechcraft T-1A &quot;Jayhawk&quot; (based on the original Mitsubishi MU-300, bought by Beechcraft and renamed the BE-400) to use as the transport lead-in trainer. I instructed in the T-1A 1994-97 and the cover page of the T-1A 'Dash One' aircraft manual had a drawing of a 1950s ATC TB-25N alongside a T-1A. Made me glad that someone in the USAF knew the history of the dual-track training program!

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C'mon lets keep this thread on the front page... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

Navy converted Boeing B 17 converted to Airborne Early Warning duty. My old squadron VW-1 originally based @ Barbers Point HI.
Photos are from early 50's, note lower radomes.

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Sorry not old! But thought you might like...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...92007-9003.jpg

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Picture from AZ...Chandler, maybe? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

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Don't think so, I do not recognize that airplane from the Chandler Air Museum and the AZ CAF doesn't have one. The only one I recall being there was the P51D &quot;Ho Hun&quot; which I flew over 20 years ago when we visited there.

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O.K..........Dumb question.......How was the oil controlled and retrieved from those Radial engines when they were running??

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PFM... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]


Here is the oil scavange system for a R3350, note the front and rear oil sump.

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Mike.....Thanks for Posting the pic......but.....Do the bottom cylinders get loaded up with Oil??.......I guess I just don't see it.....

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My vintage aircraft.

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Ken
When radials are running there using oil, they do not load up, they just blow it out. On the Supper Connie's I was a flight crew member on each engine, R3350 Turbo compounded, Had a 42 Gal oil tank mounted behind the engine in the wing, plus two 67 gal auxiliary tanks, one in each wing root. The FE could transfer oil around as needed. On a typical 15 or 17 hr recon flight we would use around 50 or 60 gallons of oil.
Radials do have a tendency to collect oil in the bottom cylinders while static, that's why, in old WW II footage you will see crew members hand proping, this allows the oil to exit the exhaust valves. There is a danger of a hydraulic lock if enough oil collects.
I bet your sorry you asked... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]
Charley, I would not trust you in a plane.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/CharleySucks.gif[/img]

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I didn't know that Thankz Mike

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I had a few hrs in this bird. VW-1 Squadron based out of NAS Agana, Guam. WC121J bu# 145933 landing at the Marine Corp Air station in Chu Lia 1968

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Convair F-102 Delta Daggers at their home base of Paine AFB, WA, now home to Boeing's large aircraft assembly line. Photo c1960.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...aineAFBc60.jpg

Two Blue Angels F-4J Phantoms join up with two civilian-owned Grumman F8F-2 Bearcats in 1969. The &quot;Blues&quot; flew the F8F-1 in the latter '40s and the two Bearcats here were owned by Bill and Corky Fornoff and they flew an exciting aerobatic demo with both planes. Sadly, the elder Fornoff's Bearcat shed a wing during a performance and crashed fatally. The other Fornoff Bearcat, I believe, is with the collection at Palm Springs today.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...Bearcats-1.jpg

MATS C-121 Constellation cruises over the Golden Gate in about 1959.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...C-121GGB-1.jpg

One-armed crop duster pilot (whose name eludes me at the moment) performs for the airshow crowd at Concord, CA in 1947.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nConcord47.jpg

Prototype YF-100 over Muroc dry lake near Edwards AFB in 1953. Famed Pearl Harbor hero George Welch, who got airborne in his P-40 during the raid, was killed in an F-100 prototype at Edwards on October 12, 1954 when the airplane broke apart during a high-G dive recovery at Mach 1.5. Welch was the first pilot to exceed Mach 1 in level flight and he did so in a prototype F-100.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ix/YF-100A.jpg

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Charley, do you still have that beast?

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Charley, that THE coolest car I've ever seen! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Tons of great nose art on B-17's, B-26's, B-24's, P-51's, and P-38's, but the P-47 is my favorite. The giant P-47 cowl provided tons of room for artwork. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TimG</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Charley, do you still have that beast? </div></div>

Yes I still have that beast and you can buy it at Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale Jan 21.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/applicati...d=443&amp;pop=0

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Drive in, fly it home?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TimG</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Drive in, fly it home? </div></div>


LOL [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

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I don't know if anybody has seen one of these. I'm sure some may have, but I never knew they existed. It's on display at Lackland Airforce Base on their parade field. A very cool plane.

http://i40.tinypic.com/dmfxo8.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/641awy.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/o0m1k.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/6pb8jn.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/vevqbs.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/5nj7tg.jpg

http://i41.tinypic.com/2vcfhwy.jpg

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Confederate/Commemorative Air Force had a flyable P-82 back in the early '80s but it suffered a crash-landing and is only recently getting close to becoming airworthy again. A second P-82 was in an Ohio farmyard for decades until the owner recently died and the airplane went to someone for restoration.

Note that the Lackland P-82 has two left-side props that are probably fiberglass. The CAF needed props for their wrecked P-82 and may have gotten the USAF to let loose the ones on the Lackland airplane. I think I read that the CAF was trying to get the USAF to let them have the good props on the display airplane and replace them with fiberglass facsimiles.

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C&amp;P Aviation located at the Anoka County Airport in Minnesota has an F82E that is in the final stages of restoration. I went over the airplane about 10 or so years ago as my brother was hoping to do the wiring. Theirs will be a flying version and not just static.

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I can't believe the plane is kept outside! A rare one like this needs to be kept out of the elements.

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I think that's great they're getting it flight worthy. I would love to see it fly.