Warbird Information Exchange

... for those who do Xmas of course ... (your all off the hook now, last post of the year)

Happy Holidays vets!!!!! ... any everyone else.


P-47


P-82


F-84E


F-84F


P-38


Royal Navy Hellcat


Royal Navy Martlet


Hellcat


Corsair


Avenger


Skyraider


P-51


P-51


F-84


F-84F


Hellcat loaded up with Kids and Cops waiting for some dude in red to show up ...


For those of you in the snow. Pack up the family and go sledding ...



BTW for those interested: I just purchased over 900 rarely seen Corsair photos. If you like "all-things" Corsair, keep an eye out next year.





Have some great time off, remember the past, present and current service members and be good humans.

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

I wonder what the "retractable posts" are referred to in the F-82 photo? If those are rockets on the centerline positions, they seem awfully close to the prop arcs!

I'm a Corsair fanatic and I look forward to these 900 shots!

A Merry Christmas to you and all my fellow WIXers!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

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Well it looked to be a successful mission with some pretty impressive "kills" ...

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

Curious lower wing leading edge "adapters" for the 5-inch HVAR's on the British Hellcat and Wildcat (Martlet?) Don't know that I have ever seen that kind of installation before....

Thanks as always Mark! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!

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“To invent the airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything!” - Otto Lilienthal

Natasha: "You got plan, darling?"
Boris: "I always got plan. They don't ever work, but I always got one!"

Remember, any dummy can be a dumb-ass...
In order to be a smart-ass, you first have to be "smart"
and to be a wise-ass, you actually have to be "wise"

Those may be RP-3 (60lb) rockets, or FFAR's - small diameter body with large head

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

Your always welcome gents ...

Here's some more rockets on T-bolts.


P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-26357) of the 353rd Fighter Group fitted with rocket launchers at Raydon


P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-26357) of the 353rd Fighter Group fitted with rocket launchers at Raydon


British rocket equipment fitted to the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-8053).





Personnel of the 389th Bomb Group fit a rocket launcher to the tail of a B-24 Liberator.

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“Knowing what’s right, doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

Always great stuff Mark, I look forward to those Corsair photo's.