1948 Burbank CA Airshow (color pics) ...

thunderbolt47d · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:54 am

Fabulous pictures! Thanks for sharing. One does not often see photos of the step-nosed C-46.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:58 am

mike furline wrote:

Anyone notice the F-38 #5266 early chin intakes and odd canopy, X9 under left wing?
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p38regis ... 12048.html
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... =3&t=66054

Yeah, that was an odd one!

L-188 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:20 am **Posts:** 164

Outstanding pics!! So many questions, what's the story on the P-47 named Dallas? The odd canopy on the F (?) 38, I'll have more after I look through them again :drink3:

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1576

Those are beautiful shots - that F-38 canopy is similar to the two-seater which was used for laminar flow research.

And a big thankyou too for the gorgeous shots of the F-86A-1.

:drink3:

JimH · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 11:33 am

The P-47 on display is now in the collection of the Yanks Air Museum. It was flown by Bill Odom as the Reynolds Bombshell...ended up with Earl Rienert before Yanks. I've flown over Whiteman Airport hundreds of times over the years. It looked too small to fit all these airframes. I would guess the 'airshow' photos were taken at Burbank. that's just a guess, some of the mountains match up with images from google maps. I also had a look at Whiteman through the lens of historicaerials.com...there is only one small hangar on the field circa 1952. These are absolutely magnificent photos...a real time portal.

Jim

steve dickey · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:26 pm

Very cool pics Mark! Great find! Looks like BT-13 engines on the trimotor? I wonder how much that upped the performance!? And A cuffless F-51D, I wonder why they would take them off?

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 1:17 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

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USAF North American F-86 Sabre 1940's
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Is a F-84, not F-86.

Craig59 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 2:08 pm

That’s an amazing color collection, thanks Mark.

old iron · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2022 2:20 pm

The XH-11 threw me for a loop - never heard of it.

Here are a couple of links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotorcraft_XR-11

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rotorcraft-xr-11-xh-11.1147/

(a one-off - how did this come to be in the US?)

C VEICH · **Joined:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:40 pm **Posts:** 1470

quemerford wrote:

Those are beautiful shots - that F-38 canopy is similar to the two-seater which was used for laminar flow research.

I would hazard to say that it is not only similar but, in fact, the very same aircraft.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2628

C VEICH wrote:

quemerford wrote:

Those are beautiful shots - that F-38 canopy is similar to the two-seater which was used for laminar flow research.

I would hazard to say that it is not only similar but, in fact, the very same aircraft.

Yes it is. I posted all of that information in the 4th post.

jdvoss · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2022 11:05 am

Correctly if I am wrong BUT according to the 1947 Sectional chart Whiteman Airport had a 3300 foot runway. I cannot imagine that all of those heavy aircraft (e.g. B-45 Tornado, C-69 constellation, C-54 Skymaster et.al) would risk attempt a landing on such a short airfield. Looking at the mountain range in the background I am under the impression that these aircraft were located at nearby Burbank. The last few photos of privately owned light aircraft may well have indeed been photographed at Whiteman in Pacoima. BTW, todays Whiteman airport runway has been lengthened to 4100 ft.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2628

jdvoss wrote:

Correctly if I am wrong BUT according to the 1947 Sectional chart Whiteman Airport had a 3300 foot runway. I cannot imagine that all of those heavy aircraft (e.g. B-45 Tornado, C-69 constellation, C-54 Skymaster et.al) would risk attempt a landing on such a short airfield. Looking at the mountain range in the background I am under the impression that these aircraft were located at nearby Burbank. The last few photos of privately owned light aircraft may well have indeed been photographed at Whiteman in Pacoima. BTW, todays Whiteman airport runway has been lengthened to 4100 ft.

Yes, Burbank was mentioned in previous posts as well.

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2022 11:00 am

mike furline wrote:

Anyone notice the F-38 #5266 early chin intakes and odd canopy, X9 under left wing?
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p38regis ... 12048.html
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... =3&t=66054

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N91300, with a survey nose

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ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2304

JimH wrote:

The P-47 on display is now in the collection of the Yanks Air Museum. It was flown by Bill Odom as the Reynolds Bombshell...ended up with Earl Rienert before Yanks. I've flown over Whiteman Airport hundreds of times over the years. It looked too small to fit all these airframes. I would guess the 'airshow' photos were taken at Burbank. that's just a guess, some of the mountains match up with images from google maps. I also had a look at Whiteman through the lens of historicaerials.com...there is only one small hangar on the field circa 1952. These are absolutely magnificent photos...a real time portal.

Jim

The large hangar with the peeling paint sure looks like one of the Pacific Airmotive hangars that used to be either side of the terminal at BUR & predated it.

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