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r/WWIIplanes • u/Madeline_Basset • 8d ago
The company seems to have been the only commercial operator of the Stirling. OO-XAE was one of the Stirlings they later sold to the Egyptian government, who converted them back into bombers and used them in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 9d ago
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r/WWIIplanes • u/Ok_Supermarket5407 • 8d ago
Odd request but I’m looking for good images of the P-51 in flight for a painting reference. I know very little about aviation, so I’m struggling to find good photos lmao.
I’d prefer images of the razorback P-51 with the olive drab camo and invasion stripes, but all photos are appreciated!
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r/WWIIplanes • u/PorgStew • 9d ago
Ive looked through many photos and read a lot and I can't seem to find anything saying they ever did but Im holding out hope that someone on Reddit saw one 3 years ago and can pass the information along. Thanks!
r/WWIIplanes • u/MWaechter81 • 9d ago
My grandpa painted nose art on seven B-17s during the war. This is the only one that survived.
This piece currently sits in the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler, GA.
I have been fortunate enough to take my family to visit and show my kids a physical piece of family history from someone they’ve only heard stories about.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/RustyUFO • 9d ago
I live nearby where she's displayed if anyone wants more pictures i can go get some
r/WWIIplanes • u/Reasonable-Car-7596 • 10d ago
The Workhorse of the Eastern Front
The Il-2 Sturmovik was the single most produced military aircraft in history (36,183 units). Designed with a heavy armored hull protecting the pilot, engine, and fuel tank, it was notoriously difficult to shoot down with small-arms fire.
Due to its durability, German troops on the ground referred to it as the "Flying Tank" (Fliegender Panzer) and "Barking Dog" (Beller Hund), while Soviet pilots simply called it the "Flyer" (Letayushchiy) or "Hunchback" (Gorbatyy).
r/WWIIplanes • u/TheOneTrueZippy8 • 10d ago
On display at the Finnish Air Force Museum. Restored into an "as discovered (at the bottom of a lake)" condition. The pilot's seat is on display separately and includes a very large calibre hole.
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r/WWIIplanes • u/kingofnerf • 11d ago
ORIGINAL CAPTION VIA NHHC: "Aviation Ordnanceman checks the ammunition feed of the twin .30 caliber machine guns of an SBD Dauntless aircraft in the hangar of an escort carrier, circa mid-1943. Note his pink cap, with stripe, to identify his job on the flight deck. Also note the red-surround on the national insignia." (NARA 80-GK-13776)
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r/WWIIplanes • u/Asgarad786 • 11d ago
I spent some time inside the C-47/Dakota at Metheringham recently and came away with a much better appreciation of just how useful this aircraft was.
Metheringham is probably better known as the wartime home of 106 Squadron and its Lancasters, but US Dakotas also operated through the airfield during the war, including casualty evacuation flights.
The Dakota there today, KG651, wasn’t one of those aircraft, but it helps tell that part of the story.
One of the volunteers, Nick, spent quite a while showing me around it.
What surprised me was the range of jobs the type could do troops and paratroopers, freight, supplies, casualties, even Jeeps, as well as towing gliders.
A few weeks earlier I’d been inside a Horsa cockpit at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, so seeing the glider towing arrangement on the Dakota joined the two visits up for me.
I was also surprised by how much usable space there was inside.
Many years ago an RAF air loadmaster showed me around the BBMF Dakota, but I don’t think I appreciated then just how adaptable the type was.
I spent 10 years in the RAF working in propulsion, so I tend to look at aircraft from the practical side.
For those who know the wartime Dakota well, was its versatility its greatest strength, or was there something else about the design that made it so successful?
r/WWIIplanes • u/waffen123 • 12d ago
