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Those are fricking awesome!

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The different angle of the Las Vegas show lets me now see that the prototype CONVAIR 880 and DC-8 ship 1 were in attendance, in the earlier picture the 8 looked like it was wearing DELTA livery. Up until a few years ago, ship 1 was parked more or less intact @ Miranna after flying for many years for a variety of carriers.

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In the last two photos, everything there isn't there any more-that used to be Boeings Plant 2 and towards the right center of the photos the darker structures used to be Jorgensen Steel. On the far side of KBFI is Beacon Hill way, way before I-5 and in the distance the Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge from Seattle to Mercer Island (L.V.M. was Edward R. Murrows brother, both from up in my current neck of the woods), L.V.M. was a state highway engineer who suggested a floating bridge across the lake. First photo looking East second photo looking NNE towards downtown Seattle.

Propellers are usually assembled in what would be a 'feathered' configuration as they are easier to maneuver with a webbed lifting sling, pitch is put in when the pitch control dome is installed since then the prop is installed and secured to the crank snout and the retainer nut is installed and torqued down.

Second of three British airshow ramp has some very, very rare types holding the cement down, An H.P. HERMES, H.P. HPR 3/7 HERALD, Vickers-Armstrong VIKING, AVRO Tudor 8 tail dragger airliner, Supermarine SEAGULL, the flying wing is the Armstrong-Whitworth 52, I believe the cute little high wing four engined airliner is the Miles MARATHON. In front of the VISCOUNT are the SHORTS Sturgeon torpedo bomber/target tug and the MALLARD looking amphib is the SHORTS SEALAND

Like to know where all the dead CONNIES (TWA and NATIONAL?) and DC-6's are parked and when-mid 60's??

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Also what appears to be three P-38s.

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I love all those Catalinas and other flying boats. The Cats at Espiritu Santo in the first photo look like they're all straight boats, not amphibs. See how they're sitting back on their six on the beaching gear.
Man that RAF seaplane base has a crowd and with quite a few Catalinas stuck in amongst them.
Nice shot of the Sikorsky S-boats and the Consolidated boat at right, probably a Commodore.

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The ramp filed with British Naval air power is,
back row Sea Venoms with a Scimitar in front of the center building ( Scimitars and shorter British carriers were not a happy mix due to it's size and corpulence). Center row SEAHAWKS and Wetland WESSEX choppers, three GANNETS (the left one is missing it's props), More SEAHAWKS in the front and a Jet Provost trainer.
The dismal ramp of C-54's could be the garden spot of Alaska, Adak. Want a super secure spot for a hard a$$ prison? Adaks the spot, you'll last three minutes in the Bearing Sea.

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Here's one from the NARA that I found on Fold3... a buncha P-40s, a couple P-51s, and one C-45 at Karachi AB.

All the Hawks are P-40Ns with the later canopy configuration, except one which may be either a P-40E, P-40M, early P-40N or possibly a late P-40K. (left end, top row, see a larger image HERE) I'm leaning toward a P-40E, as it looks like a short fuselage, but am not totally sure. My eyes ain't what they used to be.

There's a few variations in the national insignia, and some of these Hawks have none at all... ships bound for the CACW, perhaps?




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Hey-hey! Certainly looks that way, eh?

At least the one in the foreground... but I really wasn't paying much attention to them. Good catch.




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The photo showing the three C-54's remains a mystery. Adak?...I don't think so. The many rice paddies and the distant city tells me that it is an Asian base...Japan or China.

Insp, What you are calling sea venoms are actually Sea Vixens. Rad