Thunder over Michigan '21 Flightline Life
Jun 7, 2022 21:35:39 #
kmpankopf
Loc: Mid-Michigan; SW Pennsylvania
I don't post many Flightline photos from airshows. Maybe that needs to change. Still part of the show.
Stories and photo information.
B-24s on the Ramp by Kurt Pankopf
B24 Maintenance Meeting
A400 Flying the Colors
Flightline Morning
Stories and photo information.
B-24s on the Ramp by Kurt Pankopf
B24 Maintenance Meeting
A400 Flying the Colors
Flightline Morning
Jun 7, 2022 22:01:44 #
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Nice photos of those great planes!! I would love to see more!
Dodie
Dodie
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Jun 8, 2022 07:25:36 #
kmpankopf
Loc: Mid-Michigan; SW Pennsylvania
ceth512 wrote:
Those are B-25's, not B-24's.
You are correct. Thanks!
Jun 8, 2022 08:53:29 #
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?
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?
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Jun 8, 2022 09:23:47 #
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!
Jun 8, 2022 11:27:00 #
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!
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Jun 8, 2022 15:08:58 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
kmpankopf wrote:
I don't post many Flightline photos from airshows.... (show quote)
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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