When I was a kid I was fascinated by the prop-driven war planes of WWII. Back then I filled a sketch book with drawings of those aircraft but now the internet provides grist for that particular mill:
Brutal-Looking Airplanes at 2blowhards.
Creamer’s Dream from Shorpy.
More than 60 years ago six P-38 Lightnings and two B-17 bombers left Presque Isle, Maine, headed for England. They never made it; instead all eight plans set down on an ice cap in Greenland. Fifty years later a group of aviation enthusiasts decided to locate the ‘Lost Squadron’ and recover one of the P-38s – from under the 25 stories of ice that had buried the planes in the intervening years…
That P-38, now dubbed ‘Glacier Girl,’ was full restored and returned to the sky.
heh…I’m still fascinated with that stuff too. This occasionally manifests itself by the building of 1/72 scale model warbirds or visits to air shows and aviation museums.
Tops so far — climbing aboard a Heinkel 111 at an air show in NY and the pilgrimage to the RAF Museum at Hendon.
Chocks away!
I’d love to get to the RAF museum (I did get to see the Imperial War Museum a decade or so ago.)
There’s a couple of decent air museums stateside as well. One in Tucson, a couple ’round here.
Stop speaking to my person!!!
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