A-10

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4014/how-a-small-town-girl-ended-up-in-the-cockpit-of-an-a-10-warthog

jet jocks vs slow and steady

https://www.facebook.com/groups/226107027472350/

just how big was the Spruce Goose? Enormous. Here is it being delivered to Long Beach/San Pedro in 1946

http://feldgrau.info/engines/12922-elovyj-gus-samoljot-govarda-khyuza

Tin Tin and Snowy's guide to WW2 aircraft, 17 selected pieces from a gallery of 5 dozen

A series of drawings of planes during the Second World War, made in the 50s by the artist Hergé (real name - Georges Prosper Remi, known as the author of the comic book "The Adventures of Tintin")

if you want to know what plane it is, and few are not well known, go to the link at the bottom of this gallery, each plane is labeled there. I figure most of you already know them all, I've posted so many WW2 planes in the last 2 years.

For the full gallery http://feldgrau.info/engines/13154-spravochnik-risunki-samoletov

photos from the boneyard

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/aircraft-boneyard-in-tuscon-arizona.html

the T 54, after 36 bombing missions in WW2, and time as a refueling tanker in Korea, was left at China Lake to be a target. Pulled before it was damaged much, it's bounced around museums and even had to sit outside in shrink wrap when it's hanger was demo'd

it is now currently near Seattle next to Boeing, at the Museum of Flight

https://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-b-29-superfortress
https://deanoinamerica.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/a-shrink-wrapped-boeing-b-29-superfortress/

incredible photo from the movie "Blue Max" of the German planes and that interesting painted pattern, which I just learned were vegetable dyes onto the plane fabric to save weight instead of painting.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/134585496559585/

Warren said this is the lozenge scheme on Fokker D7's

Thanks Rob! 

Elvis abandoned an airplane... it's still in New Mexico

http://airway.uol.com.br/o-aviao-esquecido-de-elvis-presley/

http://flaviogomes.grandepremio.uol.com.br/2016/05/nas-asas-177/

cool photo of the blackbird

fantastic how they disassembled this plane for transporting, why they didn't fly it there is odd. Maybe this was for a convention or some indoor show

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/21616679251/

This image shows a P-40 B/C loaded on a flatbed trailer at the Buffalo Airport. Likely taken sometime during the winter of 1940–41, this image isn't from the Life Magazine collection.* I included it to show the earlier method that Curtiss used to transport finished aircraft to the airport for final testing, checkout, and delivery to the Army. Before the crush of production orders hit in 1940, loading the aircraft on train or truck (as shown here) was efficient enough. But after production increased, Curtiss quickly outgrew its Kenmore Avenue plant, and had to think of creative ways to eliminate bottlenecks in its overtaxed production process. Instead of train or truck, Curtiss test pilots simply flew newly minted aircraft right off the assembly line, using the parking lot of the factory as a makeshift runway.

Thanks Steve!

Looks like a smooth flight, but landing is going to really ruin his day

Found on http://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2016/02/18/azok_a_csodalatos_ferfiak_az_o_repulo_masinaikkal

Of only 300 made, this is the only salvaged He-115 in existence, and it's in good enough condition to be restored

The twin-engined, three seater float plane was originally bought by the Norwegian Navi Air services in 1939. It was used by the Norwegians against the invading German forces in April 1940 and after Norway surrendered the Germans took over the airplane and used it against Allied convoys that were sailing towards the Soviet Union.

On December 1942, it was escorting a German convoy after which it lost a float on landing and overturned. None of the crew were killed, and the Germans were even able to recover the starboard engine and the remaining floats before the bomber sank. It remained on the bottom of the fjord for almost 70 years.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/whotube-2/recovering-the-last-luftwaffe-float-plane.html