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PictionID:41904748 - Title:B-29-55-MO - Catalog:16_002362 - Filename:16_002362.tif - Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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B.O.B. (SETH ROGEN) meets a hot little number in green at the Murphy family reunion in DreamWorks Animation's 'Monsters vs. Aliens.'
Watching a B-1 do touch and go's is quite a sight. Since there won't be an airshow in Grand Junction this year, seeing this should hold me over 'til the next one.
PictionID:42004742 - Title:B-58 Convair photo - Catalog:16_002505 - Filename:16_002505.TIF - ---Photo from the Ray Wagner Collection - - - - Ray Wagner was Archivist at the San Diego Air and Space Museum for several years and is an author of several books on aviation --- ---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
B-17F-80-BO s/n 42-29944
"Winning Run" aka "Buzzing Bronco" of the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Crew posing for pictures after a belly landing in an English field on Sept. 6,1943.
This photograph taken by Rob Haylock circa 1973 shows the wreckage of B-17E, 41-9234 near Wau in Black Cat Pass, Papua New Guinea. Lt Ray Dau from the 43rd Bomb Group was forced down by damage from enemy action on 6th January 1943. One crewman died later from injuries RIP.
Boeing B-17F-60-BO (S/N 42-29604) "Thundermug" One of the original aircraft of 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. She also was assigned to the 99th BG,483rd BG and 463rd BG. She flew a total of 113 missions,107 of them with the 2nd BG,and ended her career with the 463rd flying weather missions and was scrapped in Italy on Oct. 14,1944.(U.S. Air Force photo)
This fellow was sharing his experiences as a navigator aboard a B-24 in WWII. Here he is recounting his two encounters with German Me-262 jet fighters. Bomber crews were not told that the Germans had fighters that screamed like banshees and flew too fast for turrets to track until they returned to base with a UFO sighting.
From www.collingsfoundation.org:
Preliminary restoration work started in 1985, led by Massachusetts volunteers, most of whom were former crewmen, or sons of crewmen, on B-24's. When Collings decided to make the plane a flying restoration, he contacted Tom Reilly Vintage Aircraft in Kissimmee, FL to do the work on the airframe and powerplant. Volunteers restored the turrets, armament, radios, oxygen system, and cosmetic details. The original builders sponsored work on the Emerson Electric nose turret, PPG Industries of Pittsburgh supplied turret glass, and United Technologies of Hartford, CT donated a Norden bombsight. General Dynamics, a successor to Consolidated Aircraft, the original manufacturers of the B-24 in Fort Worth, TX, was a major sponsor of its restoration.
Collings said the restoration involved complete disassembly of the plane and work on about 80% of the B-24's 1.2 million parts. There was some corrosion and minor damage "plus the desire to make all the systems (engines, props, hydraulics, and electrical) one hundred percent right".
The entire hydraulic plant was replaced or overhauled, and every pulley was replaced. All cables and hardware, the bearings, an electronic strobe system, the batteries, and the radios were donated, along with installation advice and assistance.
The fuselage was in reasonably good shape, but twenty percent of its skin still had to be replaced. More than 420,000 rivets were replaced, as well as fuel cells, brake tubes, tires, and windows. Most of these parts were donated.
Now, it’s time to honor the 8th Air Force and all who served in England and in the ETO [European Theater of Operations]. We have selected “WITCHCRAFT”, a B-24 assigned to the 467BG, 790BS that compiled an amazing record of 130 combat missions. WITCHCRAFT is an olive drab aircraft, with red and white nose bowls, red and white rudders, 130 bomb markings and a cartoonish witch flying a broom as nose art. All the names of our Dedicated Crew, Lead Crew, Plane Sponsors and DFC Members will be proudly displayed on the co-pilot’s side of the aircraft. Honor Crew and aircraft names will continue to be on the bomb bay doors.
America's only flying B-24 continues soaring through its native skies as part of the annual Wings of Freedom Tour with its sister ship, the B-17 Flying Fortress. A living history museum seen at over 130 cities per year, the B-24 brings memories for the many who flew others like it during WWII. For a younger generation, it brings enlightenment--a glimpse of the conditions in which it served, and an appreciation for the freedom we all share because of its role in the Second World War.
from wiki - White tigers are individual specimens of the ordinary tiger (Panthera tigris), with a genetic condition that causes paler colouration of the normally orange fur (they still have black stripes). Contrary to popular belief, white tigers are not albinos; true albino tigers would have no stripes. The stripeless white tigers known today only have very pale stripes. There is, in fact, no evidence of true albinisms in modern tigers.
B&O Railroad Museum William Mason, aka # 25. This is after the engine was restored to its original appearance following a role in the movie "The Wild Wild West".
Mission History
On September 15, 1942 took off piloted by Lt. Raymond E. Holsey on a night bombing mission against Rabaul and experienced bad weather. Returning, this B-17 was short on fuel and landed on the beach on Hood Point. The crew included:
Pilot Lt. Ramond E. "Ray" Holsey
Co-Pilot Captain Jack A. Ryan ["Ryan" in 70,000 to One]
Navigator Lt John A. "Davy" Crockett [aka "Davy Crockett" in 70,000 to One]
Bombardier Sgt Gordon R. Manuel
Radio Sgt John W. “Rosey” Rosenberger
Engineer Sgt J. B. Young
Crew Captain Jack A. Ryan (IL)
Tail Gunner Sgt Vernon O. "Skeets" Elder (CO)
Gordon R. Manuel recalls in 70,000 to One:
"This had been a night mission and the weather was really foul. It was so bad that somehow our instruments went haywire and now, when we should have been just about coming home, we were God knows how many miles from nowhere with nothing under us but two miles of sky and a few more miles of water. I went back to the radio compartment with the boys. We put on our Mae Wests and just sweated it out. Rosenberger, our radio operator, just sat there, tapping out messages, asking the base to tell us where we were. The gas was getting very low, and Holsey had the engines leaning way down to use as little gas as possible.
We hit so softly that we didn't even bounce. Holsey had landed us on a beach at Hood Point - a lovely beach. The plane skimmed along and then it settled into the sand as our speed reduced. The heavy ship gave a little lurch to the left and we stopped. The next day a boat came with some steel netting [Marston Matt / Pierced Steel Planking (PSP)]. Friendly natives helped us lay it on the beach, and then Holsey and Ryan, our co-pilot took her off. They just prayed her off and the right wing tip touched the water, but she got off all right. We went back to Moresby by boat laughing it all off. But we hadn't laughed during the hour we were sweating it out."
Assisted by friendly natives, the crew waited for help to arrive. Aircraft dropped supplies to the crew including one drop by a B-25 Mitchell from the 3rd Bombardment Group and another by a B-17 Flying Fortress from the 19th Bombardment Group. A small boat arrived to deliver fuel and Marston Mat / Pierced Steel Plank (PSP) to create a runway on the beach.
To document the incident, LIFE Magazine photographer George Strock visited Hood Point and photographed the B-17 and the crew interacting with locals. These photographs were published in LIFE Magazine January 4, 1943. Former plantation owner assigned to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Leslie Johnston also visited the bomber and helped the crew trade with locals to purchase food from them.
Approximately a week later, [circa September 22, 1942] an improvised runway was completed and a take off was attempted. Using the beach with pieces of Marston Mat laid down to form a runway with only the pilot and co-pilot aboard to minimize weight, this B-17 took off successfully and landed safely at 7 Mile Drome near Port Moresby. Afterwards, the remainder of the crew were transported aboard a boat back to Port Moresby and returned to duty.
Afterwards, this B-17 might have been assigned to a service squadron or V Bomber Command pool until retired from flying missions and was written off at Mareeba Airfield.
Text source: pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2659.html
Arado Ar234B Blitz (Lightning)
The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz (Lightning) was the world’s first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. The first Ar 234 combat mission, a reconnaissance flight over the allied beachhead in Normandy, took place August 2, 1944. With a maximum speed of 735 kilometers (459 miles) per hour, the Blitz easily eluded Allied piston-engine fighters. While less famous than the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters, the Ar 234s that reached Luftwaffe units provided excellent service, especially as reconnaissance aircraft. This Ar 234 B-2 served with bomber unit KG 76 from December 1944 until May 1945, when British forces captured it in Norway. Turned over to the United States, it was brought to Wright Field, Ohio, in 1946 for flight testing. In 1949 it was transferred to the Smithsonian, which restored it in 1984-89. This Arado is the sole survivor of its type.
Wingspan:
14.4 m (47 ft 4 in)
Length:
12.6 m (41 ft 6 in)
Height:
4.3 m (14 ft 2 in)
Weight, empty:
4,900 kg (10,800 lb)
Weight, gross:
10,010 kg (22,070 lb) with RATO (rocket-assisted takeoff) units
Top speed:
735 km/h (459 mph)
Engines:
2 Junkers Jumo 004 B-1 turbojets, 900 kg (1,980 lb) thrust; 2 Walter RATO units, 500-kg (1,100-lb) thrust
Ordnance:
one 1,000 kg or two 500-kg bombs
Manufacturer:
Arado Flugauegwerke, Alt Lonnewitz, Germany, 1944
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234
¿Qué es “Summertime Lados B”?
¿Una muestra de anemia autoral o la reafirmación de un potencial artístico?
¿Una estricta selección de fotos de archivo que viene a completar, extender y re-elavorar, en tres actos, un proceso creativo que se creía finito?
¿Qué es este impulso de publicación que pareciera no tener fin, y que, según mi impresión, no merece esperar 5, 10 o 20 años en un cajón?
¿Se completa aquí un ensayo sobre el verano de los cuerpos, pero haciendo ahora mucho más visible y espectacular el escenario “Marplatense”?
¿O caigo sin más remedio (por efecto de una larga transición dada entre “las 4 estaciones”) en el auspicio de otra mirada playera, una mucho más esteriotipada y reconocible a los ojos del verdadero protagonista: el público en general?
¿Qué es “Summertime Lados B”?
¿Más lodo y confusión, o, más agua para apagar tanto fuego gris?
¿Es un apunte para entender mejor “Summertime”, Tiempo de verano?
¿Constituye o no el libro original un exceso expresivo que, por su concentración, estaba necesitando una redención mucho más sentimental que intelectual?; ¿o en verdad fue aquel (publicado en abril de 2011) una muestra de originalidad incompleta?
¿Podría entonces interpretarse a “Summertime Lados B” como un manotazo de ahogado por tanta agua volcada de un solo golpe?
¿Es “Summertime Lados B” una manera de hacer tiempo, de descansar y retomar el aire; una forma de aflojar la cuerda enredada al cuello; de congelar la pelota en el aire para desentenderse un poco de quién es el que la pone en juego y quién el que la recibe?
¿Puede ser “Summertime Lados B” un nuevo ensayo de alguien que, como yo, todavía se considera demasiado joven para archivar indefinidamente cualquier cosa?
Lo único cierto a esta altura es que, para mi, “Summertime Lados B” es una secuela imposible de frenar.
Pero como una sola certeza no alcanza hay que seguir preguntándose, debo seguir preguntándome: ¿qué es “Summertime Lados B”?
Ustedes díganme, pues son ahora a quienes necesito escuchar.
(“Summertime Lados B” es un ensayo en proceso. Su destino de Libro al día de hoy es incierto, más allá de su publicación aquí Flickr, y en mis sitios: www.fotografiasyformas.blogspot.com y www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3653492493007.167236.11... )
Las imágenes incluidas en este ensayo fueron registradas en la Ciudad de Mar del Plata durante el mes de enero de 2008. Originales de negativo de plata sobre gelatina escaneados, no tienen retoques digitales ni reencuadres.
*Véase como referencia “Summertime”, Tiempo de verano en:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1960426487415.117577.11...
www.flickr.com/photos/31271394@N07/sets/72157626400140359/
fotografiasyformas.blogspot.com.ar/2011/04/nuevo-libro-su...
Five minute sketch...first time I picked up a pencil in 10 years.
From a real life model class...Miss B Divine
This Buff is at the Palmdale museum. Just laying around waiting for someone to do something with it. The rest of the plane is in pieces laying all around the fuselage
This is an ornate capital B, freehanded from Shaw's Book of Ornamental Lettering (1883). Reminds me of rococo furniture from the same era. Drawn on cold-pressed watercolor paper with a Sakura Micron 01 pen (0.25 mm line).
Above the Storage Basin
After the uranium pellets had been transformed into Plutoniuim-239, they were ejected out off the back of the reactor core, and ended up in the Storage Basin, a large, deep pool of water.
Once the pellets were considered safe to handle, workers would walk out onto this floor, and lift the individual floor panels to remove the plutonium pellets and collect them in the yellow caddy seen on the right.