Since we are talking vintage aviation...

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So not sure if the F-4 or T-34 I posted would be considered vintage but they sure are cool!


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I watched " Spitfire-The plane that saved the world" on Netflix last night. Highly recommended. Who knew a RR Merlin has 11,000 parts !

 

Love all the new posts.Thanks to all who have taken the time and effort to do so.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Harold L. Jones - SBD gunner who wounded Saburo Sakai over Guadalcanal

 

For a 2 row ... The push rod tubes seem to be pretty close to the same line.. Without seeing a side it doesn't seem like there are 2 mani cranks and master rods...but I'm no expert on radials

 

These pictures were found in my Great Uncle's stuff when he died . He was in the SeaBees in WWII

 

Loving this stuff. My Father-In-Law was a flight instructor during WW2 and afterwards flew P51's in the reserves. He continued to own and fly aircraft for the rest of his life and he was the one that got me into aviation. Here's a couple of photos I took while riding in some vintage tin. (B17 and Ford Tri-motor).

 

Dago Red and Skip Holmes @ Reno.

 

Now that's close air support!

 

Nope, Just late to the Bar B Q and in a hurry to get the fire started.

 

Stationed @ Bunker Hill, 60-63. Shootin' pool one night, old Constable tell's me and my buddy we are shootin' on th e same table that John Dillenger played on.

 

I worked for FSI out of Mojave and we had several of your T-33's. (A nd a WHOLE bunch of the Canadair Sabre's.)

 

That's quite the team!

 

I have flown in both the Collings Foundation B17 and B24. This photo is from the B24 on a flight from Tamiami Airport in South Florida to Marathon. This area is just entering the Key Largo area. My B17 flight was from Tamiami to Naples a year earlier.

 

rplate, post: 13423524, member: 143400"]I have flown in both the Collings Foundation B17 and B24. This photo is from the B24 on a flight from Tamiami Airport in South Florida to Marathon. This area is just entering the Key Largo area. My B17 flight was from Tamiami to Naples a year earlier.
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the first time i got to fly in the 909was the greatest day of my life!! my uncle was a co pilot of a b 17 and pow.
75 years ago to day him and 10,000 pow started a death march across frozen germany may there sacrifice never be forgotten !!!!!

 

Is this a Pratt & Whitney tool?
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-snap-on-ohv-adjusting-tool.1163332/
I've had this Snap On valve adjust tool for sale a while. The Part number is
PWA2835-1
Does anyone know if the PWA is for Pratt/Whitney?
Thanks

 

This should make the boss happy. Bob

 

My son and I were fortunate enough to see this FW 190 fly at its first public flight several years ago. It resides at the late Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett WA. If you live in the area and like the Warbirds, go, you won't be disappointed. If are visiting the area, ditto. Late spring in to early fall this museum does free fly days, you can go watch these machines start up belch smoke and fire, and fly! The museum website puts up a schedule. Search YouTube for FW 190 Russian forest and you'll get to see a video of how this plane was discovered in amazingly intact condition in the 1980's .

 

Today a V1 rocket bomb with 935 kilogram of live explosives was dismantled by special forces explosive experts here in The Netherlands. It was found underground next to a freeway. A complete village nearby was evacuated and the freeway closed all day.

 

Wow, that's a 2000 lber!

 

I have done a fair amount of reading on WWII, including the V1 and V2 launch sites. When the permanent sites were bombed out by the allies, the Germans developed a system where they could move the launch platforms and the V1 bombs.
It would be a scary thing to find one, but I am not terribly surprised, because the Germans were using forced labour to dig tunnels and such all over Western Europe.
Here is a link to the listing of some of the launch locations in the Netherlands.
https://www.tracesofwar.com/themes/4437/V1-launch-sites.htm?show=list

PS: There was a recent program on the History Channel, that explored a tunnel system that was over five miles. If I remember correctly, they were using it to build parts for either the V1 bomb or the ME262 Jet fighter
Bob

 

Here it is . In the mud.

 

First pic looks like a G.B, #2 looks like a Ryan PT-22, (would have had a 5 cylinder Kennerer engine) and #5 is something from Lockheed. Started in aviation in 1958 and retired in 2005, both civilian and Air Force. Great collection by the way.

 

Even though this " BUFF " is vintage, it still looks like the future to me.