Bombs Away!

[Jack Cook]

1Lt Bill Lawrence of Astoria, OR at his position in his B-17F

[Jerry O'Neill]

Jack;
Great photo, but that's the funniest looking B-17F I've ever seen
Looks like a 24D.
Jerry

[Jack Cook]

To close for me to tell
Freaking captions

[the330thbg]

Agreed.., definately a B-24!

Gorgeous photo regardless!!!

Last edited by the330thbg on Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Steve Nelson]

Actually a B-24H or later..you can see the ammo feeds for the nose turret at the top of the photo. Great photo..always love seeing original color shots!

SN

[fotobass]

Jack, welcome to my world. This is what happens when a photo editor writes captions based on what he thinks, rather than what actually is.

It's amazing how incredibly stupid I've been made to look sometimes, because MY name's the one on the credit.

[Bluedharma]

cool photo... I like how they have the Norden? covered because it was during the war.

[omega7]

Covering bombsights has to rank among the top security contradictions of the war. Little known, and consistently overlooked, was the U.S. Navy’s act of placing a Norden M-series on public display at New York City’s MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY in November 1944. In the same timeframe, flight crews were pointedly required to cover the sight if there was a chance that the general public would see it! -Adrian

[Roger Cain]

Looks like the same picture as in this months Air Classics?

[Steve Nelson]

Last summer I was at the annual airshow here in Battle Creek, and the local ANG unit had one of their A-10s on display. They were allowing people to look into the cockpit, but the airman acting as plane captain told me I wasn't allowed to take pictures. I had to chuckle..I shot a complete set of cockpit photos of one of the unit's Hogs at the airshow two years earlier!

SN

[Jack Cook]

Air Classics

[gary1954]

Air Classics

What Jack said,, eeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[The Inspector]

In the early 70's Lockweed had an open house @ Palmdale featuring the L-1011 a brand spanking new, early production S3, and an SR-71 that they dragged over from the other side of the ramp (where the 71's were kept, it was fun to watch the aircraft be there, disappear, then reappear during the day depending on Soviet satellite passes). NO PICTURES ALLOWED of the 71 from less distance than San Bernardino County line. Two weeks later NASA had their 25th Anniversary @ Eddies airpatch just up the road, and you could walk right up and touch the 71, take pictures up the tailpipes. or go get pictures of the F-111 afterburners with no one having a care.
At Abottsford in 86, the Russians were all over a 71 parked right at the rope line and banging away on their cameras at an A-10 that was parked on the display line at just beyond touching distance and pointing and photo-ing the one doing the flying demo. At the time you couldn't get behind an F-117 to take pictures at a U.S. airshow, but in C-eh N-eh D-eh , you could walk all around the stupid thing taking as many pictures as you had film for.
I remember as a kid when you had a tough time getting a REVELL or RENWALL SSN boomer model because the Russians were cleaning out the hobby shops to send them back to the Rodina.