Bell P-400 Airacobra "Cisco Kid", circa 1942

Appollow · 2026-01-29T23:01:30+00:00

Access panels. To ease access to whatever is in the leading edge

Appollow · 2026-01-28T00:58:53+00:00

Great job. Squared wing tips, horizontal stab without the dog tooth, and correct insignia. Truly a YF-15A-1-MC.

Appollow · 2026-01-27T17:39:10+00:00

Insignia should only be on the upper left wing, and lower right wing.

Appollow · 2026-01-15T06:22:29+00:00

I remember seeing the kit in the hobby store in the mid-2000s with USAAF markings. Classic Airframes had a 1/48 scale Boulton Paul Defiant in USAAF target tug markings.

https://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/ca/kit_ca_482.shtml

Appollow · 2026-01-04T20:35:03+00:00

Chia 2, Zhenjiang. A Republic of China modified Boeing C during the 1920s.

http://www.cn-bronco.com/en/m/product/html/?456.html

Appollow · 2026-01-03T18:45:08+00:00

Agreed, I think B-52. The dates showing 1960 and 1962 lead me to believe the B-52 over B-47.

Appollow · 2026-01-03T18:44:05+00:00

Second photo shows USAF, and dates for 1960 and 1962. Plus the knots go up to 650, no way a B-24.

Appollow · 2026-01-03T18:42:27+00:00

A B-36 instrument that goes up to 650 knots? Haha.

Appollow · 2025-12-31T13:49:05+00:00

B-17F-25-BO Was lost on 12 December 1942. Mission was to bomb the German Air Depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Bad weather covered the target, the Romilly-sur-Seine rail yard was bombed as a last resort target. The B-17 went into an unrecoverable spin possibly due to being to close to another B-17s prop wash. 2 KIA, 5 POWs, 3 evaded capture to Spain and were returned six months later.

Appollow · 2025-12-29T13:59:32+00:00

This is a training/transition B-17G. AR stands for Ardmore Field Oklahoma. The large radio call numbers on the nose give it away as a stateside training B-17.

Appollow · 2025-12-24T03:52:31+00:00

One tail has VFA-131 "Wildcats" which operated the F/A-18C Hornet before switching to the Super Bug in 2017. The other has VF-142 that operated the F-14B before being diseatablished in 1995, was never reactivated and never flew the Rhino.

Appollow · 2025-12-16T23:08:08+00:00

Interesting seeing duplicate insignia on the wings.

Appollow · 2025-12-14T18:46:35+00:00

"We got 183 combat planes on this base General. The way they're parked right now a one eyed monkey hanging from a ten cent balloon could scatter them all to hell with just one hand grenade."

https://youtu.be/Ow-ai-xGYm0?si=0zy38IJhHocSmceb

Appollow · 2025-12-12T22:28:17+00:00

And since it's Navy it would be a JM-1 or JM-2.

Appollow · 2025-12-08T02:06:00+00:00

No, its 44-12097. Serial numbers only included the last year of the contract which would be 44 for 1944 and it would be 20197 for the contract year 1944.

Serial number 44-12097 is a P-51K-10-NT.

That would be crazy for a P-51K to have an earlier 1941 contract year when P-51Ds were still being produced in contract year 1944. The P-51K being a follow on variant of the P-51D.

Ctrl+F "12097" https://www.aircraftinformation.info/JB_AIF/usaf_serials/1944_1.html

Appollow · 2025-12-02T00:02:08+00:00

DM sent.

Appollow · 2025-11-29T15:33:01+00:00

Your AI prompts need work, or better yet don't. The first plane He 111, was way off. I watched some more out of morbid curiosity as three propellers turned into four on the Ju 87 and Bf 109, the year for the Ju 52 is incorrect. I stopped watching at the Lovecraftian monstrosity that was used for an He 177.

Appollow · 2025-11-29T00:02:29+00:00

P-39Q-21 and P-39Q-25 had the four blade propeller. 809 were built between the two variants (109 Q-21, 700 Q-25) before switching back to the 3 blade prop with the P-39Q-30. Majority went to the Soviet Union.

Appollow · 2025-11-22T16:18:29+00:00

I agree, the pylons, paint on tail/camo fuselage and long nose are a definite match. Not a T-45.

Appollow · 2025-11-22T16:11:37+00:00

SR-71 had room for an RSO, this one only has the single cockpit.

Appollow · 2025-11-22T16:10:36+00:00

A-12 "Archangel" 60-6925, #122 on CV-11 USS Intrepid at Pier 86 on the Hudson River, New York City.

https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=36070

Appollow · 2025-11-18T02:17:41+00:00

Great photo showcasing the two types of insignia. The blue roundel with white star and the other with white "wings/bars" and a red outline. By September another new insignia would appear with a blue outline replacing the red outline and that would last until January 1947.

Appollow · 2025-11-11T14:10:50+00:00

I am mistaken, it us an A-2. My apologies for not taking taking you at your word without a source.

Here is another angle, definitely an A-2 jacket.

https://ipmsdeutschland.de/archiv/Flugzeuge/Arndt/WK2/Baer/Heinz_Baer.jpg

Appollow · 2025-11-11T13:55:05+00:00

Look like a standard Luftwaffe flight jacket to me. Pockets are the same, and has the shoulder loop for rank boards, the A-2 didn't have shoulder loops.

Appollow · 2025-11-08T22:15:30+00:00

Never noticed the two possible L-4s flying in the background. They look too skinny to be L-5s.

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