luvmypets
Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC
Nice photos of those great planes!! I would love to see more!
Dodie
Those are B-25's, not B-24's.
Amazing to see that many (flying) B-25's together like that.
As for the A400, why the 8 propeller blades? I'd been taught that fewer blades = more efficient. With too many blades, each blade is trying to pull through the turbulence created by the preceding blade. Or doesn't that count at high speed?
go2hale
Loc: North of , Abilene, TEXAS
I agree. Like all of the pics. In flight & on line ! Thanks
Nice shots--enjoyed your shooting angles.
B-24's have 4 engines. The first 2 photos are B-25's. My Dad, "Doc" Clements bombed over Ployesti Rumania and was the 3rd and last of 21 B-24's to return. He and his crew got out just before it went up in flames!
When I was a lad (early 50s) my dad was stationed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, on the staff of the Air University there. We lived on based not far from the flight line, and in the mornings when they B-25s were started there was no more sleep to be had. Those airplanes were LOUD, substantially more so that the C-45s and T-6s also there to provide aircraft for the student officers, most of whose were pilots, to use in maintaining their proficiency hours each month. They are indeed beautiful flying machines!
kmpankopf wrote:
I don't post many Flightline photos from airshows.... (
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A B-24 was a 4 engine "Liberator" Bomber. Those pictures are B-25's like Doolittle used in the raid over Tokyo that took off of a US Navy carrier.
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