Один из энтузиастов авиации.

My grandpa was always aviation-mad. He became an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic in the 1930s. He used to have scale models of a lot of the Thompson Trophy planes, plus a few others like the Macchi-Castoldi MC.72 and Curtiss R3. He told me a lot about those planes.

When I was a kid, my favorite of course was the Gee Bee Model R1.

I've learned a bit more since then, of course.

So, any other fans of 1930s air racing?

You may remember my post from a few weeks about a B-24 sitting in a Soviet airfield in Poland and captured in a German Luftwaffe recon photo taken just 12 days after Polando landed in that airfield. I had some archival documents related to this story, and was lucky to find a relative of the pilot who was so kind to share more information and many photos.

I would love to tell you more but self-promotion is not allowed here.

Currently I am researching an incredible family story from WWII. My great-grandmother lived on Saparua Islands in Maluku. And one day (1942 - 1945) an Australian aircraft crashed onto their part of the land in the jungle close to the village of Porto. While the Japanese forces searched for the pilot. My family hid him under coconut husks. He survived, and was later rescued.

I am trying to identify the airman and aircraft involved. But I am not based in Australia and I have trouble navigating military online archives. I am hoping someone with research experience can help me look into this! Or maybe you might know a family story that touches on this story.

I would be grateful for any leads.

This was during the cold war, what can i do with the background?

After a few years I finally had extra time on the hike to find the wreckage October 2026 // October 16, 1944 — a U.S. Army B-24J Liberator (#42-51067) flew into Camel's Hump in the fog on a WWII training flight and never came home. Nine of the ten crewmen were lost; the wreckage still rests near the 4,083-ft summit

Boston Public Library, Breaerly Collection

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0v839072r

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0v839014v

80 years ago on October 14,1947, General Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. I saw him on various occasions in the bx/commissary at Beale AFB but I never bothered him. He lived about 6 miles from me in Grass Valley California at the time. I did meet him in August 1983 when he took a ride in a SR 71. I was an avionics technician and helped pre-flight check the plane before his flight. I remember saying to him as I shook his hand, “thank you for everything you’ve done for aviation “.