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Northrop P-61A three aircraft formation (S/N 42-5536, 42-5573 and 42-5564. (U.S. Air Force photo)
"Husslin' Hussey"
P-61A-5-NO Black Widow
s/n 42-5536
422nd Night Fighter Squadron, 9th Air Force
"Jukin' Judy"
P-61A-5-NO
s/n 42-5564
422nd NFS, 9th AF
"Lovely Lady"
P-61A-10-NO
s/n 42-5573
422nd NFS, 9th AF
These beauties were seen at three separate sites south of the conference headquarters.: near the village of Woodridge, the Tall Grass Prairie, and along Highway 15.
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Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Japanese Red Cross psychosocial volunteer talking to an elderly resident about her health after measuring her blood pressure in the community centre of this temporary shelter settlement. The volunteers come every weekend to help the residents here to relax and get to know each other better. Their coordinator says there’s a need for psychosocial support because people are still having difficulty coming to terms with the impact of the disaster, in which many have lost their homes and jobs.
Photo: Sayaka Matsumoto /Japanese Red Cross
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Diguidian village, Kayes region, Mali, 27 February 2012. The Malian Red Cross Society, supported by the Spanish Red Cross, is helping to improve food security in Diguidian with a women’s vegetable gardening project.
Mama Berthe, 60, working in the vegetable garden established as part of a long-term Malian and Spanish Red Cross food security project, Diguidian village, Kayes region, Mali.
Photo: Sarah Oughton / IFRC
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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II American fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named "fork-tailed devil" (der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" (2飛行機、1パイロット Ni hikōki, ippairotto?) by the Japanese,[6] the P-38 was used in a number of roles, including interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground-attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers, and evacuation missions,[7] and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.
The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations as the aircraft of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories), Thomas McGuire (38 victories) and Charles H. MacDonald (36 victories). In the South West Pacific theater, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs toward the end of the war.[8][9]
The P-38 was unusually quiet for a fighter, the exhaust muffled by the turbo-superchargers. It was extremely forgiving, and could be mishandled in many ways, but the rate of roll in the early versions was too slow for it to excel as a dogfighter.[10] The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to Victory over Japan Day. At the end of the war, orders for 1,887 were cancelled.[11]
The P&OSL KENT of P&O Stena Line berthed at Dover just a day after Stena sold their share of the joint venture to P&O. The Stena flag had been removed from the funnel already. 16th August 2002.
WNY&P M636 #s 637, 41 & 43; C424 #4228, C630M #630 & C430 #431 at the east end of the WNY&P engine house
P.S. Suisse is reportedly a great bakery and lunch spot in Langley Village. But I've yet to eat there, it always seems to be closed when I go there.
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This P-38J-10-LO, S/N 42-67638, was manufactured by the Lockheed Company in Burbank, California, and accepted by the USAAF on October 23, 1943. In May 1944 it was assigned to the 54th Fighter Squadron of the 343rd Fighter Group, 11th Air Force, flying out of the Army air field at Alexai Point on the small island of Attu in the Aleutians. The 54th Fighter Squadron was the only one of the four squadrons in the 343rd Fighter Group to be fully equipped with P-38s. The other three squadrons flew a mix of P-38 and P-40 aircraft. This machine became squadron aircraft number 85.
Early in 1945 the P-38s of the 54th Fighter Squadron began to fly special high-altitude missions aimed at intercepting Japanese balloon bombs drifting eastward toward North America on the jet stream. These last-ditch weapons of terror were launched into the upper atmosphere from the home islands of Japan in hopes of dropping incendiary charges onto the United States and Canada.
The first Allied territory in the balloons' flight path was the Aleutian Islands, where Army and Navy planes had first chance at shooting the devices from the air. The air field at Alexai Point on Attu was directly in the flight path of the unmanned balloons, which passed overhead at between 30,000 and 37,000 feet.
On February 2, 1945, 1st Lt. Arthur W. Kidder, Jr., flew aircraft number 85 on a local test hop following a 50-hour inspection. Lt. Kidder was an experienced P-38 pilot, having flown 54 combat missions on a previous tour of duty in Italy. He had four enemy kills to his credit, three of which came on one mission. The test flight with aircraft 85 was to take about two hours, checking the aircraft's operation at the extremes of its performance envelope.
After flying the test mission, Lt. Kidder radioed Alexai Point for clearance to land and headed down through the clouds. The controller gave him a vector heading and said he was only about 15 miles from base, but when Kidder broke out of the clouds at about 1,500 feet above the icy Pacific there was no land in sight.
He tried to radio the control tower again for further directions, but discovered that ice had formed on his primary radio's antenna wire as he had descended through the overcast, causing it to snap off. He climbed back through the clouds to try a backup line-of-sight radio, but received no reply to his calls. He again let back down through the clouds and began to search for the base, flying a rectangular search pattern and extending each side of the box by five minutes each time.
For four hours Lt. Kidder searched in vain for his home island. Running low on fuel, he began to look for any dry land to set the plane down. Ditching in the frigid ocean was out of the question. Even in a life raft he would not last long. Finally he spotted a tiny island below and circled it looking for a suitable landing site. Only a small patch of relatively flat terrain existed on the mountainous little island, but he headed straight for it.
Knowing that the P-38 was fairly smooth on the bottom and prone to slide great distances in belly-landings, Kidder decided to lower the gear and then retract them at the last moment, leaving the gear doors down to plow into the ground and slow his slide. This worked perfectly and the P-38 slid only about 300 feet before coming to rest in the tall grass. With only 385 hours on its airframe, the short career of aircraft number 85 came to an abrupt end.
Five U.S. Army soldiers stationed at a tiny weather outpost on the otherwise uninhabited island heard the crash-landing and ran to help the pilot. They informed Kidder that he had landed on Buldir Island, 100 miles east of his base on Attu. They immediately began sending messages on their low-powered weather reporting radio, but since no one was expecting a report from them at that time there was no response.
Late that night a ham radio operator in St. Louis, Missouri, picked up their distress calls and contacted the War Department. A Navy patrol vessel picked up Lt. Kidder two days later and returned him to Attu.
Besides the major damage inflicted when the plane crash-landed, over time it was demilitarized and even used as a ground target for other P-38s on air-to-ground gunnery training. What remained of the aircraft rested on Buldir Island for nearly fifty years, until August 1994 when the Air Force Heritage Foundation of Utah staged an expedition to recover the derelict from its crash site.
Arthur Kidder, now retired and living in Colorado, was located and invited to accompany Heritage Foundation members and personnel from the 405th Combat Logistics Support Squadron from Hill AFB on the recovery expedition. The recovered aircraft was delivered in October 1994 to an aircraft restoration company in southern California, where it underwent a complete rebuild. The finished P-38 arrived at Hill Aerospace Museum in August 1996. It is one of approximately 30 P-38s which still exist around the world today.
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II, the Korean War and other conflicts. The Mustang was conceived, designed and built by North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a specification issued directly to NAA by the British Purchasing Commission. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed and, with an engine installed, first flew on 26 October.
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was a long-range single-seat World War II fighter aircraft. Designed, built and airborne in just 117 days, the Mustang first flew in RAF service as a fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft before conversion to a bomber escort, employed in raids over Germany, helping ensure Allied air superiority from early 1944.[2]The P-51 was in service with Allied air forces in Europe and also saw limited service against the Japanese in the Pacific War. The Mustang began the Korean War as the United Nations' main fighter, but was relegated to a ground attack role when superseded by jet fighters early in the conflict. Nevertheless, it remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s.
As well as being economical to produce, the Mustang was a fast, well-made, and highly durable aircraft. The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650, a two-stage two-speed supercharged version of the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, and was armed with six .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns.
After World War II and the Korean War, many Mustangs were converted for civilian use, especially air racing. The Mustang's reputation was such that, in the mid-1960s, Ford Motor Company's Designer John Najjar proposed the name for a new youth-oriented coupe automobile after the fighter.[3]