Misc Images

[_AH_Archie]

Archie sucks too.

Lippy

Why must you be so DW, Lippy?

[_AH_Archie]

Why does this picture scare me?

Because its a little AH-CPS pic from 1975

starting from left to right


GhostBear-Lippy showing his true colors-Jack (age 24)-BBQ (he likes puppies)-Little Miss DW.  I dont know who the hairy guy on the end is, but I am thinking a young Hogan

[_AH_Jack]

The guy on the end is Skat.  His parents couldn't afford a costume for him.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Did the earliest F4F's have fuselage guns?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221293041067&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:US:1123

[_AH_DarkWolf]

It does look like the prototype XF4F had a pair of fuselage guns, you can see the slots for the gun barrels in the pictures on this page : http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/f-types/xf4f3.htm

DW

[_AH_taldrg]

~S~

                        Nope.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Apparently the XF4F-2 and the prototype XF4F-3 did have two 0.30 guns in the fuselage and two 0.50 in the wings. The 0.30 guns were deleted in production F4F-3s in favor of the four 0.50s in the wings.

DW

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Curtiss Helldivers from the Fast Carrier Task Force 58 are seen midair on a mission over Saipan, in the Mariana Islands.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

There's a kite I wish we had in IL-2.

DW

[_AH_Autorotate]

P-40 Warhawks are assembled at Buffalo, New York in 1939.




Lieutenant Tom Killefer of VF-17 after a forced landing, Nissan Island, 1944.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

What a great color shot, looks like it could be mordern day.

S!

[_AH_Lippy]

As usual I think i am confused I thought the SBD was known as the Hell Diver. Please correct me if I am wrong which I think so i might delete this post in favor of have two solid days without disbaringing remarks from Lippy
DW.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Nay they are two different birds, Lippy. The SBD was known as the Dauntless. It was a pre-war design.



The SB2C Helldiver (Not to be confused with the SBC Helldiver which was a pre-war biplane) was the replacement for the Dauntless. It suffered from a long list of teething problems which delayed it's use until late 43, early 44. Alot of them were armed with 2 20mm cannon and they could carry like 2000lbs of bombs in their bomb bay.



DW

[_AH_Nimble]

thanks DW... nice illustrations too......my compliments

[_AH_Lippy]

TY Sir looks like a stronger airframe and larger vertical stabilizer but it is still SB maybe why i am confused.