Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

[Mattndew76]

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[MikeRL411]

Thanks, I never knew there was any aircraft plants here, although my aunt worked at a plant during WWII making aircraft windows, but never knew where it was located.

 

This plant made mostly data encryption gear boxes!

[Jesse C.]

[Mattndew76]

Are they skipping the marble? 

[Burabuda]

[MikeRL411]

 

"Dam Busters" reenactment?  Like it !!!!!!!!!!

[Jesse C.]

Yes, it was the 70th Anniversary of the Dambuster Raid back in 2013

 

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[KiloTango1200]

 

Now THAT'S really losing an engine.

[MikeRL411]

Now THAT'S really losing an engine.

"Farting Martin" B26?  You could tell who was the pilot or copilot depending on which ear he was deaf in.  The supersonic crack from the prop tips was too close to the cockpit!

[Burabuda]

[Jesse C.]

 

Love those NASA lifting bodies

 

[Jesse C.]

"Farting Martin" B26?  You could tell who was the pilot or copilot depending on which ear he was deaf in.  The supersonic crack from the prop tips was too close to the cockpit!

 

I have never heard of that ever happening or that nickname. 

 

Nicknames I know are these. Taken from Wiki

 

B-26 crews gave the aircraft the nickname "Widowmaker".^[8] Other colorful nicknames included "Martin Murderer", "Flying Coffin", "B-Dash-Crash", "Flying Prostitute" (so-named because it was so fast and had "no visible means of support," referring to its small wings) and "Baltimore Whore" (a reference to the city where Martin was based)

 

[Burabuda]

sad story of crash of the "carolyn" one of the last airworthy b-26's in 1995

 

[MikeRL411]

I have never heard of that ever happening or that nickname. 

 

Nicknames I know are these. Taken from Wiki

 

B-26 crews gave the aircraft the nickname "Widowmaker".^[8] Other colorful nicknames included "Martin Murderer", "Flying Coffin", "B-Dash-Crash", "Flying Prostitute" (so-named because it was so fast and had "no visible means of support," referring to its small wings) and "Baltimore Whore" (a reference to the city where Martin was based)

 

 

The prop tips were very close to the pilot and copilot windows.  The supersonic crack or the prop tips caused very severe hearing loss in the aircrew ears!  The A36, later comingled with the B36 did not have this prop distance problem!  The ex Cuban invasion units defered to Viet Nam had the upgraded A36 engines, Ci35 brakes and bomb points all the way from the fuselage to almost the wing tips!  Flew very well in South Viet Nam with USAF markings, not Cuban ones!  Saw them on the all steel VSP runways of Thon Son Nuit on ther way North bound.  Also saw ARVN  commandos loading on Banana copters with full automatic GI full gauge all brass cased High Standand/ JC Higgins M500 12 gauge shotguns!  Brush?  No longer a problem!  By the way, this was in 1962, before the Full Bird Coloners decided that they knew how to "win the war".  My avorite LTC. who later made full Colonel. stated the truth "First we defeat the VC, then we worry about the VD!"  He was unpopular, but he was right!  He conducted nightly surveys of "One head, four feet in his subordinate's bed time sacks." Those were the days when we fought to win the wars, not to get battle time on their records and future promotions!

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[Burabuda]

Those were the days when we fought to win the wars, not to engage in preemptive strikes and perpetual occupations.

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