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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:25 pm 
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Location is listed as near Ellington Field, Houston, TX. US Army Air Corps Photograph. The "do not publish without authorization" stamp on the back is for Barksdale Field, LA.

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So, what is this?

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Curtis Shrike! I have this photo in my collection...

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The photo itself actually looks worse. This was a demo of cleaning up an older photo that was damaged with bends, etc...

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That's a nice looking airplane :)

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The '70s called..they want their bell-bottoms back! 8)

Too bad more of those '30s birds weren't preserved.


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I can play too! :)

Note the DT

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Lets spell Curtiss with 2 S's

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One of the most important airplane in history!!! This plane was used to develop technique of low level flying and that was normal to fly under the telephone wires line. One of the pilot of this plane led low level attack of B-24 on Ploesti.

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And believe it or not, there were still a couple of these in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack...

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Aviation lexicon, small covers over the wheels only are known as 'Pants' but full strut and wheel covers (like the A-12) are know as 'Spats' whereas white covers on dress shoes worn by rich guys were 'spats' :? :?
But, on the other hand, we fillet (filla) a fish but apply fillet seal or fillet fairings to an airplane :roll: :roll:

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