Photo of the week
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This weekends photo.
P-47D 44-19718 HV-M "Pengie IV" of Capt. Boleslaw Gladych 56FG, 61FS in a staged photo showing it being serviced.
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This weekend extra.
Spitfire Mk. VII EN474 flying over the plains of Ohio in the summer of 1943.
This aircraft, the 13th production high-altitude Mk. VII was supplied to USA for evaluation. In the USAAF service, the aircraft retained its British camouflage and serial, although it was later assigned the evaluation number FE-400.
An air intake for the Marshall compressor for the pressurised cockpit placed below the starboard exhausts was the characteristic feature of the type, as was the Lobelle type sliding canopy. This aricraft, however, was one of the earliest Mk. VII and featured a non-sliding pressurized hood inhereted from the earlier Spitfire Mk. VI.
This aircraft survived the war. Retired to the Smithsonian National Air and; Space Museum in 1947, EN474 is today the world’s only surviving example of the pressurised high-altitude Spitfire. -
This midweeks photo.
A nice close up of an Italian Junkers Ju.87R-2,before a combat sortie at an airfield in Albania, April 1941.
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This weekends extra.
Fw-190A-2,W.Nr.0120 282, K.Nowak,9./JG 2,Theville,France,May 1942
Yellow 2 was assigned to Ofw. Karl Nowak and shows some ten rudder victory markings. His Warte would add just two more - his 11th and 12th returned on 3 June 1942- before he was shot down and killed by Spitfires over the Channel on 10 June 1942.
