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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3675 on: April 24, 2020, 07:00:34 AM »
A rare photo of all 5 CAF "boing-boing's" at CFB Trenton.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3676 on: April 24, 2020, 05:39:31 PM »
Tom Podolec Aviation @TomPodolec

PHOTO Kenn Borek Douglas DC-3T at Toronto Pearson Airport.
Passengers from a science ship that is stuck in the ice near the north end of Greenland brought to Toronto for onward repatriation to the US and Europe.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3677 on: April 24, 2020, 10:12:35 PM »
Lovely aircraft that, I used to see it regularly at YYC.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3678 on: April 25, 2020, 02:27:16 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3679 on: April 25, 2020, 02:36:38 AM »
Some serious weathering here:

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3680 on: April 25, 2020, 04:31:55 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3681 on: April 25, 2020, 10:07:52 AM »
GTX are the P-40N's in the MTO or the Pacific?
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3682 on: April 25, 2020, 09:26:28 PM »
Going by the sharkmouths with the long fangs, I'd say they're in the Pacific.
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« Reply #3683 on: April 26, 2020, 12:40:52 AM »
"1948. Northrop YB-35 & Boeing B-17G BA 935 as chase plane."

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« Reply #3684 on: April 26, 2020, 12:47:32 AM »
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« Reply #3685 on: April 26, 2020, 06:12:49 AM »
J.J. @kadonkey
A UH-3 Sea King helicopter assigned to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Search and Rescue idles in a clearing during a training flight. (U.S. Navy by pm 2c Scott Taylor)

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« Reply #3686 on: April 26, 2020, 06:16:24 AM »




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« Reply #3687 on: April 27, 2020, 10:43:49 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3688 on: April 28, 2020, 02:56:32 AM »





Squint just right and these first two almost look like RAF ones.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3689 on: April 29, 2020, 01:33:38 AM »
More photos from Coooooooold Lake





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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3690 on: April 29, 2020, 03:48:53 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3691 on: April 29, 2020, 03:49:12 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3692 on: April 29, 2020, 06:11:24 AM »
Hold my beer as I will be first off the ferry.

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« Reply #3693 on: April 29, 2020, 06:12:48 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3694 on: April 30, 2020, 11:21:41 AM »
To thx pics above , that’s taking a plane wash  a few steps farther than I have ever done
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« Reply #3695 on: April 30, 2020, 09:34:46 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3696 on: May 01, 2020, 02:51:07 AM »
Menacing :smiley:
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3697 on: May 01, 2020, 02:51:19 AM »
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« Reply #3698 on: May 01, 2020, 08:05:38 AM »
More photos from Coooooooold Lake
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Coooooooold AND cool!  :smiley: Tigers in silver/natural metal are kinda sexy.  :-* Would look good in colourful WWII fighter liveries.  :smiley:
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3699 on: May 03, 2020, 06:09:50 AM »
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