“TWA mechanics at La Guardia Field resemble men from space after donning metal propeller hubs. 1941”
November 09, 2009, 11:22pm
x planes
experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days. action shots. propaganda posters. etc
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Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
“President of United Helicopters Stanley Hiller Jr. leading a helicopter with a scarf in a demonstration for the company’s stockholders. San Francisco, March 1947”
November 05, 2009, 6:03pm
“Hiller XH-44 - working independently on the problem of helicopter flight since 1939 in California, Stanley Hiller, Jr., designed and built America’s first successful coaxial helicopter, which he flew in a Berkeley stadium in 1943”
November 05, 2009, 3:28pm
“A Bell Helicopter lands on a Vermont Transit Flxible Clipper on the campus of the University of Vermont in the early 40s”
November 04, 2009, 8:13pm
“El Diablo, with nine missions to its credit, survived to fly back to the US in May 1944..”
October 30, 2009, 11:21pm
B-17 assembly ship of 384th Bombardment Group, Eight Air Force - referred to as the ‘Spotted Cow’, or the ‘Speckled Hen’.
October 30, 2009, 12:49am
“”First Sergeant” was a war-weary Consolidated B-24D used to assemble large formations. Once the formation was formed up, this aircraft returned to base”
(more here)
October 29, 2009, 11:39pm
“As part of a publicity project, the US Forces daily newspaper Stars and Stripes organized a competition to find ‘the most beautiful WAC’ serving in England. The resultant vote awarded the distinction to Pfc Ruby Newell from Long Beach, California.
To mark the event, a bomber was named in her honour and an aircraft of the 549th Bomb Squadron was selected. Cpl William Ploss was commissioned to paint a likeness of Miss Newell on the B-17 and a christening ceremony was arranged.
The fortress was lost on 24th March 1945.”
October 29, 2009, 10:12pm
“Frank, mascot to a bomb group of the Fifteenth Air Force, gazes at the nose of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator Howling Wolf, Italy, 1944”
October 29, 2009, 6:09pm
“Leutnant Franz von Werra. Adjutant of II./JG 3. Later captured by the British and became famous as the only German airman to make a ‘home run’. The epic story of his escape across Canada and the USA was the subject of a film starring Hardy Kruger. Shown here with Simba, the Gruppe’s mascot.”
I haven’t seen the film, but this is one seriously epic story.
October 27, 2009, 8:21pm
