WW II plane buffs?

Wudang said:
Interesting discussion here on aircraft effectiveness against tanks. I don't know enough to judge the arguments. As a taster
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You dont have to destroy a tank to render it useless.

A tank on the battlefield is an ephemeral threat.

Take away its supporting infantry. Take away the fuel that moves it and the lubricants that keep its joints supple. Take away the ammunition it expends. Take away its anti-tank screen and supporting artillery. Divorce the tank from the multitude of logisticians, mechanics and engineers who tend to its every need, and you are very soon left with nothing but scrap metal.

Aerial bombing might not have destroyed many tanks directly, but the effect it had on the smorgasbord of entities that made the tank a viable weapon... well that was devastating....
 
Here are some photos from a recent trip to the USS Yorktown CV-10 in Charleston, South Carolina.

It was a wet, warm day. The humidity was appalling. Fortunately, many of the interior sections of the ship open to visitors are air-conditioned.
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Her soul is down in the hanger deck.
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The hanger deck has a nice collection of USN aircraft. The lighting conditions weren't ideal, but they were adequate.

Skyraider.
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F6F.
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F4U-1D
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I've seen a few Avengers up close, but I never cease to be impressed with what a huge beast it is.
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A lovely little F4F-3 painted like Butch O'Hare's plane.
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And last, but certainly not least, an SBD.
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MRC_Hans said:
Aye, I've seen an operative Vulcan, flying. (Yes, I'm old enough for that)

Awesome. There is one at Hendon, when you walk under it it's like a roof in itself.

There was one visiting my home airbase, must have been around '68, and after it was parked, they wanted to move it a bit, but the apron was slanting just a little, and our biggest tractor couldn't hold it, so the cranked up the Vulcan's engines again and moved it under its own power. - Next day the grass was yellow for a hundred yards behind where the exhaust had scorched it.

Hans
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Sometime around 1980, I was on a hill near Rannoch in Scotland, when I saw what I initially took to be a landslide. Only after I had been watching for several seconds did my brain put the reality together. I was looking down on a Vulcan doing nap-of-the-earth flying , so I was seeing the camouflaged upper surface moving -it seemed very slowly- over similarly coloured moorland. It was a rather spooky experience.
 
Some pics from the RAF museum at Hendon.


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Browning (?) from the Spitfire.


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Mystery shot. :) Bonus points for identifying this one.

I'll leave them without captions for now, as most of you know more about them than I do anyway, and you'll have more fun identifying them (and it avoids me the embarrassment of misidentifying them).
 
Super pics, Zooterkin.




(Except number two - they tried to kill my dad and grandparents. Tossers.)
 
Foster Zygote said:
Here are some photos from a recent trip to the USS Yorktown CV-10 in Charleston, South Carolina.

It was a wet, warm day. The humidity was appalling. Fortunately, many of the interior sections of the ship open to visitors are air-conditioned.
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Her soul is down in the hanger deck.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03115.jpg[/qimg]

The hanger deck has a nice collection of USN aircraft. The lighting conditions weren't ideal, but they were adequate.

Skyraider.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03118.jpg[/qimg]

F6F.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03122.jpg[/qimg]

F4U-1D
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03123.jpg[/qimg]
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03124.jpg[/qimg]

I've seen a few Avengers up close, but I never cease to be impressed with what a huge beast it is.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03126.jpg[/qimg]

A lovely little F4F-3 painted like Butch O'Hare's plane.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03127.jpg[/qimg]
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03128.jpg[/qimg]

And last, but certainly not least, an SBD.
[qimg]http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k490/FosterZygote/DSC03130.jpg[/qimg]
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I've got a question regarding Yorktown CV-10: what was its original name going to be? I understand that the keel was laid 3 days prior to Pearl Harbor i.e. while the previous Yorktown (CV-5) was still a going concern. So what were they going to call it originally?
 
Didaktylos said:
I've got a question regarding Yorktown CV-10: what was its original name going to be? I understand that the keel was laid 3 days prior to Pearl Harbor i.e. while the previous Yorktown (CV-5) was still a going concern. So what were they going to call it originally?
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According to wikipedia:
Initially to have been named Bon Homme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while under construction to commemorate USS Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
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zooterkin said:
Some pics from the RAF museum at Hendon.

Mystery shot. :) Bonus points for identifying this one.

I'll leave them without captions for now, as most of you know more about them than I do anyway, and you'll have more fun identifying them (and it avoids me the embarrassment of misidentifying them).
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Oh, yes Hendon. Must go back one day. I have a lot of shots from there, too, but I don't know why some parts of the place must be so dark.

I also have some good shots from Duxford, but none of them are on this computer.

I don't think the mystery shot is a plane, there are boats there, too.

Hans
 
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A company I used to work for (MR Systems) used to look after the PCs at the RAF Museum (Macs) back in the 90s.

If I ever had a callout I used to spend an hour or two having a poke about :)
 
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