Life Magazine photo link- Boston Logan around 1950

[bdk]

CF-100 prototype and US buzz bomb are notable. I wonder who all the people are?

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/86dae3cc738516d0.html

[The Inspector]

I believe some of the 'guys' present are Gens. Kenny and and Vandenberg, Larry Bell and that CY guy.
Interesting seeing 6062 in white over orange, and what's with all tehe blister cabin windows on that C-54?

[Jerry O'Neill]

I never knew the X-1 took a trip to Boston. Very cool photos. Nothing like letting the kids play in the X-1! The trailerdisplay labels it the XS-1. Also, in the back of the helicopter hovering photos is a P-82 Twin Mustang. Wish I was there!
Jerry

[Jerry O'Neill]

Duplicate post.

[k5083]

Couple cool shots of a 4-ship Vampire display too, RCAF presumably.

August

[JDK]

Couple cool shots of a 4-ship Vampire display too, RCAF presumably.

Could be RCAF, could also be RAF. That tickled a memory cell that the RAF had taken several to N America about then;

On 14 July 1948, six Vampire F.3s of No. 54 Squadron RAF became the first jet aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. They went via Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Keflavik in Iceland, and Goose Bay at Labrador, before going on to Montreal (c. 3,000 mi/4,828 km) to start the RAF’s annual goodwill tour of Canada and the U.S. where they gave formation aerobatic displays.

At the same time, USAF Colonel David C. Schilling led a group of F-80 Shooting Stars flying to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Germany to relieve a unit based there. There were conflicting reports later regarding competition between the RAF and USAF to be the first to fly the Atlantic. One report said the USAF squadron delayed completion of its movement to allow the Vampires to be "the first jets across the Atlantic".[14] Another said that the Vampire pilots celebrated “winning the race against the rival F-80s.”[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilla ... hievements

Better on timing, it could be 410 Squadron RCAF's 'Blue Devils':

No. 410 Squadron was reactivated on 1 December 1946 as an Air Defence squadron flying de Havilland Vampire F.3 aircraft, and was re-formed from a defence role into that of a fighter role at St Hubert (Montreal), Quebec on 1 December 1948.[3][10] From May 1949 to August 1951, the Blue Devils aerobatics team formed, to demonstrate the abilities of the new Vampire aircraft at formation flying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/410_Tactic ... .80.931964

More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Devil ... ic_team%29

I've also checked David Watkins' de Havilland Vampire, The Complete History, but can't place either team at Boston Logan in any of the listings to hand.

Regards,

[Firebird]

These photos from the set could be confirmation that it was the Canadian display team....

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/1e3eccd5f5b98115.html

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/8edf20eb3f6176eb.html

[Russ Blow]

I believe some of the 'guys' present are Gens. Kenny and and Vandenberg, Larry Bell and that CY guy.
Interesting seeing 6062 in white over orange, and what's with all the blister cabin windows on that C-54?

The C 54 was a converted TC 54 D Navigator trainer. That one is 42-72695 went to AMARC in Nov 69 and then was listed as follows by AMARC Disposition:02-DEC-69 / To GACVT, Victoria.

[JDK]

These photos from the set could be confirmation that it was the Canadian display team....

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/1e3eccd5f5b98115.html

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/8edf20eb3f6176eb.html

Good find. I think the RCAF option looks like it would fit better, for a number of reasons, but I was personally pleased to have correctly remembered the RAF visit to N America as well!

The second image is interesting for the subsidiary wings on the standing RCAF pilot with his hand on the rocket. They looks like wings with an 'O'; but the 1930s Commonwealth air forces Observer badge was normally a single wing like all the non-pilot aircrew trades of the era. Also the Observer was replaced by other (Bomb Aimer, Navigator etc.) more specialised badges and wasn't issued late in W.W.II. So any other offers?

Regards,

[JohnB]

What about the HRP? How cool is that?

It's the father of the H-21, grandfather of the Chinook.