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More from the photo album

I don't recognise the plane in the foreground...who wants to have a go :D

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Curtis something? Ive seen it before had gunners or aircrew? in the nacelle positions if im recalling right.

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Looking over the shoulder of the Bell Airacuda..a Martin B-10 on the taxiway..and a few other ??'s on the
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Bell Airacuda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YFM-1_Airacuda

The one on the right I'm not sure. B-23 Dragon?

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Pretty sure those are B-18's in the background and on the taxiway.

And a C-40 on the right.
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OOOh you guys are too good..I should have looked at the back of that photo!!! Its one of the ones that is actually captioned..it says Bell Airacuda Langley Field....wherever that is!! :twisted:
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Pretty sure those are B-18's in the background and on the taxiway.

And a C-40 on the right.

I'd agree on the B-18s, but it's definitely not a C-40. Undercarriage, nacelle, cockpit glazing and windows are all wrong. (Sorry, I'm researching the 10 & 12 family at the moment...)

Pretty sure it's the Lockheed XC-35, so there's a family connection.

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Well James, you might be interested in this one I quickly scanned in for you..once again from this album :twisted:

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Oops. Beech 18. Like a Lockheed 10, but ~uh~ common. (Oops, there go the Beech bombers...) :D

Interesting colours though, obviously in Aus with the RAAF Ansons behind, and early with the meatball in the roundels. Wonder where?

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Well this photo is in The RAAF Amberley section of the album , these are captioned as to place but not date . I have photos of crated aircraft like Douglas Divebombers,P-40's getting uncrated etc as well as RAAF Fairey Battles, a Hudson some 22bg B-26's that i'm yet to scan in that were all taken at Amberley.
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Well, stop talking about them, post them up! :D

Any idea who the photographer was?

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JDK wrote:
Saabmeister wrote:
Pretty sure those are B-18's in the background and on the taxiway.

And a C-40 on the right.

I'd agree on the B-18s, but it's definitely not a C-40. Undercarriage, nacelle, cockpit glazing and windows are all wrong. (Sorry, I'm researching the 10 & 12 family at the moment...)

Pretty sure it's the Lockheed XC-35, so there's a family connection.

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Ohhh, sonuva...I was looking at pictures of the 35 and 40 at the same time and got them confused.

Since you're researching them, did the XC-35 have a completely new fuselage mounted to the wings and tail of a regular Lockheed 10?
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Well, I missed it first go, and have no excuse. ;)
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Since you're researching them, did the XC-35 have a completely new fuselage mounted to the wings and tail of a regular Lockheed 10?

That's a good summary. There's a fair amount of good data on the web on the type, including some corking high-res photos on the NMUSAF website, including the toilet (outside the pressurised compartment, since you ask). The engine nacelles are different, and the gear was different as well.
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ausflyboy wrote:
Well this photo is in The RAAF Amberley section of the album , these are captioned as to place but not date . I have photos of crated aircraft like Douglas Divebombers,P-40's getting uncrated etc as well as RAAF Fairey Battles, a Hudson some 22bg B-26's that i'm yet to scan in that were all taken at Amberley.


A friend of mine was at Amberley uncrating the A-24's for the 3rd Attack Group...Commented that they had a very skinny Aussie who would crawl back ino the fuselage to hook up the control cables.
Here's a pic from my "mate"Gordy Birkett..

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The Airacuda sounded like a real gobbler.
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