How bout a few Vintage aircraft photos?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: firstgenaddict</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Do you know the id of the pilot of the SIGMA NU girl in the 3 above? What college? </div></div>

P-47D-27, &quot;SigmaNu Girl&quot; 404thFG 506FS

P-47D-27 Flown by Charles Matheny

i have no idea what college he went to. thats not listed in the P-47 database.

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a bunch of good airplane photos too. Here's the one and only Convair XC-99 transport at its home base of Kelley AFB in about 1950. My dad was a young enlisted man when the XC-99 first arrived at Kelley and said that when it landed, with its original single wheel main landing gear, that it broke through the asphalt as it taxied in. It was updated with multi-wheel mains soon after. It remained at Kelley after its 1955 retirement but has been moved to Dayton for restoration and eventual display at the USAF Museum. The XC-99 is a derivative of the B-36 bomber.

Just beyond the XC-99 is a Boeing YC-97 (early short B-29 style tail and R-3350 engines) and two B-29s.
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[427TJ]

Not sure why the photos 'fell out' from the original posts. I will replace them.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">California Air National Guard (Van Nuys) F-86A Sabre cavorting over Los Angeles in 1954.</div></div>

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Colonel George Laven's colorful F-100A at George AFB in 1957. Laven was the commander of the 479th Tac Fighter Wing and a WWII ace and commander's jets were often colorfully marked as seen here. The unit converted to the F-104 in 1959 and Laven's 104 was delivered in similar commander's colors and whitewall-painted tires! Contrails high above the base mean fighter-interceptors or perhaps test planes from nearby Edwards AFB at work. Only military planes were 'up in the cons' in those days since jets were not quite in airline service yet.

A George-based 327th FIS F-102 is at left and a B-47 bomber at right. </div></div>

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not an airplane photo but an airport. This is Orchard Place Army Airfield soon after the end of WWII. Upgraded and renamed O'Hare Airport after famed U.S. Navy WWII ace &quot;Butch&quot; O'Hare, it bears little resemblance to its humble beginnings. If you look carefully at O'Hare on Google Earth you can still make out the triangular runway pattern on the north side of the main terminal. View here looks southwest. </div></div>

[David Billingsley]

More please!

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The highest scoring P-40 Sq of 1943, with 117.5 confirmed victories.

And some better shots.











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The 354th ended the war as the top fighter group in &quot;AIR VICTORIES&quot; at 701, second was the 56th Fighter Group of the 8th airforce at 677 air victories.

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