Flying Low Friday

"FJ80WaitinForaLSV8" (fj80waitinforalsv8) 02/07/2014 at 09:56 • Filed to: planelopnik, flying low friday

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Just a couple of shots of the B-25 Mitchell doing its thing. These planes are seriously pretty. The last pictures I took this year at the WW II museum in New Orleans.

ttyymmnn > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 10:05

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EL_ULY > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 10:05

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cooooooooool!

ttyymmnn > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 10:05

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FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > ttyymmnn 02/07/2014 at 10:06

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that's low.

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > ttyymmnn 02/07/2014 at 10:07

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I don't know if I'm more impressed by the bulls eye hit or that camera work that enabled these pictures.

Nothing > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 10:43

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Pretty plane. Still partial to the B17, cuz of my dad and all (kneeling, bottom right). My dad's crew was the first to hit 30 missions over Europe.

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > Nothing 02/07/2014 at 10:50

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Very cool. I'm a big B-17 fan myself. My last flying low Friday post was about B-17s.

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Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 11:00

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Yo, I herd you like guns, so we put guns above your guns above your guns above your guns, and put some more guns in the trunk.

I love B-25s

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken 02/07/2014 at 11:21

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I believe this B-25 had a total of 18 M-2s

FelixScout > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 13:18

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I love the NA B-25 and many of the medium bombers of WW2 since they always had more of a hotrod appeal to them. Especially since after the war some pilots would strip the armor and weapons off them and race fighter planes, since in a lighter state they could get close to 400 mph. Or so I've been told.

I also dug the 75mm some B-25s carried as a kid but then learned it wasn't that great in operation.

"In field operations, the big 75 millimeter cannon did not prove as impressive as it looked. With manual loading, it had a low rate of fire, and the trajectory of its shell was much different from that of the bullets from the forward-firing machine guns, preventing the machine guns from being used to register the cannon. Salvo-fired HVARs proved a much more effective approach to heavy forward firepower, and while there some B-25 pilots who liked the big gun, it was often removed in the field." http://www.airvectors.net/avb25.html#m5

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > FelixScout 02/07/2014 at 13:30

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Couldn't agree with you more about the hot rod appeal.

Re: the 75mm, very interesting. Thanks for the post!

FelixScout > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/07/2014 at 14:12

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You're welcome!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/08/2014 at 01:10

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Don't forget on the side of your guns...

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 02/08/2014 at 01:26

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Proof that at one point man's testicals once approached a density of a neutron star.