Some resources I mentioned while flying Sunday 56ker LOOKOUT

[Waldo.Pepper]

Some resources I mentioned while flying Sunday.

Naval aviation news.

All in PDF format... all free to download.

A little propagandistic and dated. Still an excellent resource.

Here are some sample covers.

And here is the link to the era I reckon we are most interested in.

http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backiss ... 0smain.htm

I also mentioned that I had some pictures of the Horton wing that is (unrestored) but on display in the Udvar Hazy hall (part of the Smithonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.) So here they are!

Here is a panorama of the German planes on exhibit in the hall. It is a rather impressive room. Though I wish they would have restored/reinstalled the engines wings to the He-219 in the background.

Let me know if you want more pics from this hall.

[BadAim]

Yes please

[DoubleTap]

Yes please

Better than Porn...Actually, if you have pictures of nude woman splayed out over airplanes, all the better.

[delta7]

can you get some more of the fw 190 the next time you visit - TY

[DZ9]

Thanks Waldo!

hey are those pics in perspective? i never realised how dinky the AR234 was!

and the anteater is a fecking giant!

cool

edit: wierd putting in the word d i n k y give that funny smiley

[Waldo.Pepper]

This is going to hammer my photobucket account!

Well for me the Heinkel 219 is the impressive one, but not in one piece!

Anyway here are some pictures of the Dornier, and a very few of the FW. I have about 60 pictures of wheel wells and air intakes of the Dornier. (stuff only a huge nerd would care about! I shall post them if anyone cares).

Really the Dornier - and all other planes at the Smithsonian are restored PERFECTLY! (as perfectly as they can manage anyway.) It is [almost] like going to a car show in Vegas or something, or to a Car Concourse in Beverly Hills where the mechanic has turned every screw so that the slot in the flat head lines up with all the other slots in all the other screws on the car. This is how the Arado and indeed all other planes in the collection are restored to. Kind of silly, and a historical shame too. No way that this Dornier was ever this perfect in Germany. Still she is impressive.

Heinkel first:

Dornier and FW:

Lastly the FW; (Sorry all I've got on the FW! )