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From the Postcrossing "Just Postcards" RR # 2394.
Stamp commemorating A.C. Khlobystov. I could not find out much info on Google, but I think this is Alexei (or Alexey) Stepanovich Khlobystov, a WWII P-40 fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union. Over his short career (he was killed in action in 1943), he claimed three German aircraft kills by intentionally ramming them in the air. The story of his first two kills is thus: In a dogfight near Murmansk, Khlobystov, flying a P-40 Tomahawk, aerial rammed German aircraft two times in a single engagement. He cut off the tail assembly of one Messerschmitt in an overtaking maneuver and severed a portion of the wing of a second Messerschmitt. Both times he struck the enemy aircraft with the same right wing panel. Both Messerschmitts went down, whereas the Tomahawk landed safely at its airfield, minus most of a wing, which was repaired without any particular difficulty. Khlobystov did not suffer even a scratch. The drawing on the stamp illustrates this encounter.
Capt. Samuel Harms, 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron pilot, prepares to park an F-16 Fighting Falcon, July 16, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. More than 300 Airmen from the 169th Fighter Wing of the South Carolina Air National Guard recently deployed to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dana J. Cable)
The plane in he picture is a C3605, the only ever Swiss build fighter. It was used by the Swiss Air Force in the 40's and 50's and has been used still in the 90's as a target tower. The one in the picture is the only one flying in the world.
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Hurd Hatfield as Anthony Fokker and John Phillip Law as the Red Baron, in the 1971 motion-picture classic Von Richthofen and Brown. In this scene, Law (the Baron) is about to become righteously indignant uttering the lines — "I am a soldier... I have thirty men fighting for their lives... I WILL NOT STAND DOWN!"
Of course, I can't resist a movie with the name "von Richthofen" in the title ! :)
Codi von Richthofen,
The Red Baron Gallery ©
Catalog #: 02-O-00009
Last Name: O'Brien
First Name: Capt Bill
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Brighton Station,
Sussex, England.
23 (or 24) March 1963
Es SR BB 4-6-2 Fighter Pilot - withdrawn June 1963.
63C011_12
Aircraft information ℹ️
Air force ℹ️
( @usarmy )
Aircraft type ️
( @beechcraft C-12U-3 Huron )
Aircraft reg ℹ
( 84-00165 )
Date 📆
( 21st October 2024 )
Camara
( @canonuk 2000D )
Lens
( 150-600mm )
🚨 pictures are @j.ede_photography 🚨
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill 1958.
The story of Douglas Bader, who lost both legs in an aviation accident, however with extraordinary determination, overcame the disability and flew fighters in World War II. He was captured by the Germans but survived to train others.
The Cadet version of the book for children.
Published by Collins London. Green cloth boards with red dust jacket, 256 pages, 21cm x 14cm.
A presentation copy to Loquat Valley School in Sydney with author's inscription and signature.
Biographies.:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickhill and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader
Korwald Loss Incident Summary
Date of loss 510120
Tail Number 96756
Aircraft type F4U-4 (Corsair)
wing or group USS Bataan (CVL-29)
Squadron VMF-212
Preflight briefing on the ramp at KKMC, Saudi Arabia. This photo was taken between goes on a 3-go combat quick-turn day during Desert Storm Feb 1991
Some young Buc LT by the name of Snodgrass drove this particular Tom! Look him up on Google - it's an interesting story!!! "Mow the lawn Snort!!!!"
John Charles Bradley Firth was a scion of the Firth family of Sheffield, renowned steel manufacturers, and served with distinction, both in the trenches and subsequently the Royal Flying Corps, where he first flew Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters, and then Sopwith Camels, with 45 Squadron on the Western and Italian fronts, achieving double ace status with 11 victories.
He died in 1931, aged 37, at Spital House, Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
Fighting Sabre F-16s ready for takeoff, Al Dhafra AB, UAE, Desert Storm. Bomb load: four x MK-84 two-thousand pounders.
Robert William Prescott (1913-1978) was an American aviator and entrepreneur. An ace with the Flying Tigers in the early part of World War II, he is credited with up to six victories. He went on to found the Flying Tiger Line, the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States. The company began as the “National Skyway Freight Corporation” on June 25, 1945, with Los Angeles oil magnate Samuel B. Mosher as president and Prescott as managing director. Prescott recruited nine of his Flying Tigers buddies as pilots, many of them fellow aces, and the company’s motto was “We’ll Fly Anything, Anywhere, Anytime.”
In 1947, the company's name changed to “Flying Tiger Line,” the nation's first regularly scheduled transcontinental all-freight company. The company prospered and expanded, and Prescott remained its only president and chief executive officer until his death in 1978. [Source: Wikipedia]
[Note: The red angel insignia on the plane represents the Hell’s Angels’ Squadron of the Flying Tigers]