Vickers-Supermarine, not Triumph.

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Airshows&action=display&thread=9495

To my eye, R.J. Mitchell didn't draw a wrong line on this aircraft.

And the photographer knows how to capture it.

Great pictures, John - thanks!

The Spitfire and the Mustang - lovely machines!

Beautiful aircraft....... to fly in one.... part of the "to do" items before you give up the ghost..
Flown in a biplane, but this is right up there on the list.

Man-o-man!

John - that is a *great* set of photos of one of the *great* aircraft of all time. Thanks for posting the link.

Say - what is the large biplane in one of the last pictures? Maybe a French pre-war something?

Tom

deHavilland Dragon Rapide

Really cool lookin' too. In a different way.

Stunning. Thanks, John!

John:

Lovely pictures of a beautiful plane.

The Candian WW II Spitfire ace, Charley Fox was my secetary's step-father. I know they did a PBS-TV show on him.

He died not long ago.

He was the Spitfire pilot credited with taking Rommel out of WW II.

~More Info on Charley Fox~

Quite a target of opportunity, Nial. May have affected the outcome of the war.

Yeah, no doubt.

After all his adventures in fighter aircraft, he was killed in an auto accident returning from a speaking engagement speaking about WW II. A terrible irony.

That kinda stuff puts a shiver down me neck, Nial. Liken it to things like Patton or Jim Fixx. Random chance.

Heisenberg was a clever guy... and WE assume he was just talkin' particle physics.

Like to have that parked in the garage.


By the way. When was the last time John post twice in one day

I live within a mile of where Charley Fox died.
The Tillsonburg airport is less than two miles away and is home to the Canadian Harvard club.
I'm being very serious here; If any of you get here and wish to see this facility, My son is the Director Of Corporate Affairs for the Town of Tillsonburg. He can make arrangements for private visitation.
Every summer we have a large Wings And Wheels show at the airport.
You are Welcome.

Dave

P.S. I may even be able to provide accommodations.

twosheds, those are the "purdyest" aircraft pictures ive ever seen! and of one of the best looking and flying aircraft ever to lift off!, thanks

On a slightly different note... I ran into a friend last night (vintage photo collector), he told me that he recently acquired a full photo album of WW2-vintage photos of Lancaster bombers, about 150 to 200 photos in total including ones with the nose art

Definitely a neat find... And he is the kind of person who will make sure the photos are well cared for

One of the best things about working at the New England Air Museum, is having the opportunity to see all the "memorabilia" we have in the collection. Including dozens of WW2 (and earlier) personal scrapbooks.

A few months ago, a gentleman comes in and asks if we have any info on B-29's. Well, we have *plenty* - including probably the best restored B-29A east of the Mississippi. Gentleman says he's looking for any info we might have on the plane his brother flew on back in 1945. Brother was a radar navigator on that B-29, which was shot down near southern Japan.

I found the original flight logs, photographs of that specific plane, the military incident report, even some records of the Japanese POW camp where the survivors were taken.

The guy was quite impressed - and moved - by all the info. Then I asked if he'd like to see the radar nav station in our B-29. Took him up into the beast, and let him sit in the same location his brother was sitting back in '45. We both got a bit teary-eyed for a few minutes.



www.neam.org

T.

I am old enough to remember Spits flying over England during the war. Every time I see one, or a picture, or hear a Merlin, I get a lump in my throat.

Tom,
Do Peg and I need to make reservations for the Behind the Scenes tour on the 27th? We will be at the Wight Tavern on Thanksgiving for the buffet and are looking forward to meeting you while we are in town.

A student brought in a blurry old photo of his grandfather's old 'plane and asked me if I could tell him what kind it was. It looked like a Fleet. The N-number was hard to make out but it was N-Vxxx.

I searched the FAA registration database for Fleet. Few are still around, but one was in the Virginia Aviation Museum and its N-number looked like the one in the photo. It was his grandfather's old ship. The V meant that Virginia Tech had bought it for use in their Civilian Pilot Training Program.

He and another student went to the museum to look at it. He had asked me what kind of 'plane was in the photo and I found the very 'plane!

Bet that caused the hair on your arm to stand up, John.