Model airplanes

Posted on June 21, 2007 by sheila

1943 – an amazing photo.

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7 Responses to Model airplanes

  1. JFH says:
    June 21, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    B-17’s??… somebody help me out

  2. Su says:
    June 21, 2007 at 7:59 pm

    An amazing photo indeed – however also rather unsettling to me…it must be the perspective.

  3. red says:
    June 21, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    I know – it’s like the blitz in miniature.

    But the scope. It’s glorious. The technology!

  4. Su says:
    June 21, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    It is; the monochrome appearance makes it even more breathtaking.
    And 1943. Wow.

  5. mitch says:
    June 22, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Gawd, I’m a geek.

    The four-engined planes are B-24 Liberators.

    The two-engined ones – hard to tell, but I’m going to say B-26 Marauders (the fuselage looks curvey enough, and while the resolution is pretty poor the tails look like single rather than double, which’d be a B-25 Mitchell).

    The two-engine planes with the dual fuselages, way up by the roof? P-38 Lightnings.

    And the single-engine planes at the outside by the roof? Hard to tell at this resolution, but I’d say P-40 Tomahawks, or maybe P-39 Airacobras.

    I now return you to the usual, less-martial geekiness.

  6. red says:
    June 22, 2007 at 11:26 am

    If you read the comments over on that site, there’s a dude who talks about the makes and models as well.

  7. mitch says:
    June 22, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Yep.

    I corrected him!

    I’m pretty hopeless.

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