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Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:44 pm

.... as in what types, makes, models, manufacturers are they?

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Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:59 pm

Photo 1: Curtiss XP-46
Photo 2: Savoia-Marchetti SM-92
Photo 3: P-38 with side view mirror - make that an F-5, I just spotted the antenna on the nose.
Photo 4: A plane wreck. :twisted: Baugher lists 45-2972 as contract cancelled.

Richard

Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:08 pm

Nicely done :supz: too easy for ya I see, but what type is the 4th photo?

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Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:17 pm

The more I look, the more I think C-54. Could be 45-0872 (also listed as contract cancelled).

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Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:42 pm

How about this for #4: Douglas R5D-3
USAAF C-54D transferred to Navy.
50879/50888 cancelled.
Most survivors redesignated C-54Q in 1962.
A few became RC-54V. Staff transport variant designated R5D-3Z and then VC-54Q.

50872 (MSN 10558) ex USAAF 42-72453 (MSN 10558, VRE-1) overshot landing at Yontan Field, Okinawa
and caught fire Apr 9, 1945

Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:08 pm

You fellas are just too good :wink:

Nicely done once again. :drink3:

Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:47 pm

raconnel wrote:Photo 4: A plane wreck. :twisted: Baugher lists 45-2972 as contract cancelled.

Id's cancel too if it turned up like that :drink3:

Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:34 pm

While #4 doesn't look much like a DC-4, the round Windows are the giveaway.

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Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:27 am

XP-46
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_XP-46

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Savoia-Marchetti SM-92
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoia-Marchetti_SM.92

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An R5D Skymaster assigned to the Naval Air Transport Service pictured in flight during World War II.

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Re: Anyone know what these 4 are? ...

Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:11 am

R-5D Skymaster over NAS. Moffett Field, hanger 2 and 3 in the backround.
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