Showing posts with label WORLD WAR 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WORLD WAR 2. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Ace picture
Grumman F3F-2 fighters fly over as the USS Enterprise in San Diego Bay, USA, 1940
by Steve Anderson. http://www.anderson-art.com/
Westland Lysander P.12
A one off, converted Lysnader "spy drooper" designed as an aerial machine gun platform ( 2 x .20 mm (0.787 in) Guns + 4 x 20 mm (0.787 in) Guns in rear turret) to strafe possible pesky German invading forces in 1940-41
Monday, 1 December 2008
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Messerschmitt Me323D-1 Gigant
The amazing, huge, slow, but very heavy load bearing Messerschmitt Me323D-1 Gigant
Originally designed as a glider, it used rockets to boost take off spee when loaded.
Six engines, 55m (180 ft. 5.5 in.)Wing span, 28.15m (92 ft. 4.25 in.)long,
10.15m (33 ft. 3.5 in.) high, Weights:Empty: 27,330kg (60,260 lbs.)
Maximum: 43,000kg (94,815 lbs.)
684 miles (1100km)Range.
Five MG 15 nose mounted, Six Mg 34 MG's in beam windows to keep the Allies at bay.
Originally designed as a glider, it used rockets to boost take off spee when loaded.
Six engines, 55m (180 ft. 5.5 in.)Wing span, 28.15m (92 ft. 4.25 in.)long,
10.15m (33 ft. 3.5 in.) high, Weights:Empty: 27,330kg (60,260 lbs.)
Maximum: 43,000kg (94,815 lbs.)
684 miles (1100km)Range.
Five MG 15 nose mounted, Six Mg 34 MG's in beam windows to keep the Allies at bay.
Monday, 5 May 2008
German secrets of World War Two ( 5 ) Fliegerfaust
Fliegerfaust
Nazi AA missile, sort of grandad to the modern Stinger or Blowpipe.
Not that secret between 1943 - 1945 10,000 launchers, and 4 million rockets were built. Although apparently only approx 80 were combat fired as it was another "wonder weapon" that. fortunately arrived too late.
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Lockheed P-38 Lightning back from dead ( 2 )
July 1942 two Boeing B-17 bombers were being escorted by six Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters as they flew over Greenland towards Reykjavik, Iceland.
Disoriented by poor visibility, and a decision to return to base and abandone thier mission caused them to run out of fuel.
They had no choice but to crash-land on the icecap of Greenland.
The men were rescued later, but the aircraft left to thier Icy fate, became known as the lost squadron.
Fifty years later a rescue paarty of enthusiasts returne for the aircraft.
The Glacier Girl, the twin-engine P-38 “Lightning” fighter that was recovered from beneath the Greenland ice cap in 1992, is now fully restored and amazing audiences with her story wherever she goes.
More detailed intel here, here and here
Disoriented by poor visibility, and a decision to return to base and abandone thier mission caused them to run out of fuel.
They had no choice but to crash-land on the icecap of Greenland.
The men were rescued later, but the aircraft left to thier Icy fate, became known as the lost squadron.
Fifty years later a rescue paarty of enthusiasts returne for the aircraft.
The Glacier Girl, the twin-engine P-38 “Lightning” fighter that was recovered from beneath the Greenland ice cap in 1992, is now fully restored and amazing audiences with her story wherever she goes.
More detailed intel here, here and here
Lockheed P-38 Lightning back from dead ( 1 )
For 65 years, holidaying families have built sandcastles, strolled and swum, all unaware that underneath them lay the ramains of the P-38 Lightning which crash landed in WW2.
The fighter plane re-emerged after freak weather conditions caused the sands to shift and expose its rusting frame on the beach in Gwynedd, north Wales.
It used to look like this
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Ice Aircraft Carrier
Artwork by Dominic Harman from a mad British WW2 concept of massive Ice aircraft carriers.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Luftwaffe boneyard
Germany, 1945, in Unter Biberg, near Munich Luftwaffe squadrons on the Eastern Front, had been landing regularly in mass fly-ins to surrender to the British and Americans, rather than the Russians, for obvious reasons.
The once mighty Luftwaffe aircraft were left to rot...
Hungarian Air Force wrecked Me109 on a dead lufwaffe Me262
The once mighty Luftwaffe aircraft were left to rot...
Hungarian Air Force wrecked Me109 on a dead lufwaffe Me262
AMAZING HAWKER HURRICANE RECOVERY
A Russian Air Force Hawker Hurricane, shot down in WW2, found with sonar by recovery expert Jim Pearce and his dedicated team.
http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/home.htm
http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/home.htm
Amazing Messerschmidt ME109 Recovery
1942, Russia, the Eastern Front. Four Hawker Hurricanes of the Soviet Air Force 5880-engage four ME109’s and one BF110 of the Luftwaffe in combat.
One bullet riddled ME109 makes a near perfect wheels up landing on the ice of a frozen lake. It later sinks through the melting ice and lays on the lakebed, untouched until it was recovered in August 2003.
More of this terrific story and other exciting recoveries at:-
http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/home.htm
One bullet riddled ME109 makes a near perfect wheels up landing on the ice of a frozen lake. It later sinks through the melting ice and lays on the lakebed, untouched until it was recovered in August 2003.
More of this terrific story and other exciting recoveries at:-
http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/home.htm
Japanese Messerchmitt Bf 109
No, not really.
It is in fact a Kawasaki Ki.61 "Hien" (Japanese for swallow), allied code name: "Tony"
Uniquely for Japanese WW2 fighter planes it used an inline engine instead of a radial, which gave it a distinct European look. The engines were actually German in origin, a license-built version of the Daimler-Benz DB-601A, which in fact, powered the real the Messerchmitt Bf 109. (below)
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