Photo of the week
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This midweeks photo.
Mustang NZ2411, taxies out to the runway to prepare for flight tests. RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
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This weekends photo.
February 25,1943, the first Goodyear FG-1 (BuNo 12992) was test flown and delivered the same month to the US Navy,however the aircraft was retained by Goodyear for testing and development.
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This weekends extra.
Warrant Officer FD Colin Brown climbing into the cockpit of his No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit detachment Hurricane at Beirut.
No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit detachment Hurricane, DG622, taking off from Beirut
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This midweeks photo.
The third Hunter prototype WB202 , and first flew on 30 November 1952 and the first to be powered by an Armstrong-Whitworth Sapphire engine.
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This weekends photos.
Some wonderful shots of Fleet Air Arm No. 887 Squadron Seafires, from HMS Indefatigable, at RNZAF Station Ardmore
On 22 November 1945 HMS Indefatigable sailed to New Zealand to show the flag. She arrived in Wellington on 27 November and was opened for public tours, during which time the Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, also visited. -
This weekends extra.
P-51 Mustang Mark 1, AG346, the first production aircraft to be supplied to the Royal Air Force, on the ground in the USA, July 1941.
And below P-51 Mustang Mark 1, AG346, the first production aircraft to be supplied to the Royal Air Force, on the ground at Speke, November 1941.
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This midweeks photo.
B-17C Flying Fortress118MD fitted with a powered turret at Rockcliff, Canada, 22 November 1941.
B-17C 40-2042. Used by GE to test turbo-superchargers dec 40-aug-41. Used to test high altitude flight with the aero medical laboratory at Dayton. Modified with sperry upper turret as development for B-17E. Seconded to stateside training. Crashed northwest of New Albany OH jan 25 1943. -
This weekends photo.
And a nice study of a C-46 belonging to Líneas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A. / Costa Rica,which received six of this type beginning in 1948.
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This weekends extra.
A detailed shot of a Mig 3 fighter which was shot down by the Finnish 135th Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Team in the Kähöjärvensuo swamp of the village of Haapala, Sippola municipality.
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This midweeks photos.
And a couple of shots of a Finnish Hurricane Mk I.Finland purchased 12 Hawker Hurricane Mk. I fighters from the United Kingdom in early 1940.
