1930's Era Army Air Corps Aircraft (ID--Curtiss A-12 Shrike)

Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:25 pm

Location is listed as near Ellington Field, Houston, TX. US Army Air Corps Photograph. The "do not publish without authorization" stamp on the back is for Barksdale Field, LA.

So, what is this?

Regards,

Andy

Last edited by coastdef on Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:27 pm

Curtis Shrike! I have this photo in my collection...

The photo itself actually looks worse. This was a demo of cleaning up an older photo that was damaged with bends, etc...

Ryan

Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:36 pm

That's a nice looking airplane

- David

Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:41 pm

The '70s called..they want their bell-bottoms back!

Too bad more of those '30s birds weren't preserved.

SN

Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:48 pm

I can play too!

Note the DT

Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:11 am

Lets spell Curtiss with 2 S's

Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:33 am

One of the most important airplane in history!!! This plane was used to develop technique of low level flying and that was normal to fly under the telephone wires line. One of the pilot of this plane led low level attack of B-24 on Ploesti.

More image, please, more.... !!!

Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:24 am

And believe it or not, there were still a couple of these in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack...

Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:43 am

Aviation lexicon, small covers over the wheels only are known as 'Pants' but full strut and wheel covers (like the A-12) are know as 'Spats' whereas white covers on dress shoes worn by rich guys were 'spats'

But, on the other hand, we fillet (filla) a fish but apply fillet seal or fillet fairings to an airplane :roll: