The old kodak kodachrome warplane gatherings ...

[Michel Lemieux]

Those (as always) are just awesome!!!!

Thank you Mark!!

[Craig59]

That’s Igor Sikorsky in his signature fedora. According to Baugher - Sikorsky XR-5, serial 43-28239 - Lend-Lease to Royal Navy as FT848. Requisitioned by USAAF despite UK protests. To Sikorsky Corp Oct 25, 1949.

Thank you, Mark, for another excellent photo essay, mish-mash or otherwise!

[Pat Carry]

Kodachrome can't be beat! Thanks Mark

[airnutz]

Another mish-mash series.

First time I've seen this photo. One of the Belgian Buffalo's, looks like NX56B, when the negative is flipped correctly. I wonder if this is one of them that spent the war languishing on a hillside on Martinique with a bunch of SBC-4 Helldivers? Great shots, thanks Mark!

EDIT
NX56B was the first Belgian Buffalo off the line and was discovered destroyed at Darmstadt, Germany after the war per...
http://www.belgian-wings.be

[Mark Allen M]

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[Snake45]

Pretty sure I've seen several of those on the cover of Wings/Airpower, too.

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[Chris Brame]

Thanks from me, too, Mark! Some O-47s and B-18s I hadn't seen before. Re the B-17 formation shots, I managed to get one definite serial and one probable:

42-31733, and...

I think it's 42-37996. Based on their record card info from David Osborne, they were both based at Orlando, FL between January 16th and January 30th, 1945, so that should help date the photo.

[Chris Brame]

And Scott, I don't know if you can use these photos for the Registry; but just in case, you're missing one for B-23 39-28:

I tweaked the color a bit to get the red out.

[Mark Allen M]

[Aeronut]

What's with the Baltimore's bomb bay?
Doors open with the two ends faired in with wood and canvas.
Were they flown out carrying spares in the bomb bay?

[menards]

This Liberator is flying over Hoboken NJ with lower Manhattan visible in the background. Its looks funny because the image is flipped.

[Chris Brame]

What's with the Baltimore's bomb bay?
Doors open with the two ends faired in with wood and canvas.
Were they flown out carrying spares in the bomb bay?

I asked about that a while back on a similar photo - turned out it was a fairing for an oversized fuel tank for the ferry flight across the Atlantic.

[Mark Allen M]

Fixed