Old Pax Photo 2
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MrX
High Octane
And curiously shaped propellers.
Those images were much easier to make out before I had to shrink them.
lol...yeah they became rather pixelated when i enlarged them.
bohman
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Those images were much easier to make out before I had to shrink them.
I'm trying to figure out what's on the tail...
red_explorer
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Neat!!!! My dad will get a kick out of that one. He came down here as a child from Baltimore with my grandfather to service engines on the base around WW2 and remembers seeing planes, etc. Thank you!
desertrat
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I'm trying to figure out what's on the tail...
Here's the original.http://www.verslo.is/baldur/p2/131565b-ha11_1000.jpg
desertrat
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I'm trying to figure out what's on the tail...
I think it was the precursor to the P3.
I have seen wheels up landings before and the tips of the props are curled the oppisite way than the one in this picture. Strange! I wonder if it fell off of its landing gear during an engine runup.
Also the object that someone posted was on the tail is actually on the wing tips. strange pic
bohman
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I have seen wheels up landings before and the tips of the props are curled the oppisite way than the one in this picture. Strange! I wonder if it fell off of its landing gear during an engine runup.
Also the object that someone posted was on the tail is actually on the wing tips. strange pic
Thanks. Now I see that it's a pod on the wing. I still have no idea what it is!
The aircraft in question is a P-2 Neptune (unsure of specific model might be a P-2V5) The "pod" on the wing is a huge searchlight. It was controllled via a joystick like arrangement from inside. The aircraft was indeed the predessessor to the P-3 Orion series and was used for anti-submarine warfare and surface search and surveillance, hence the spotlight. Todays technology is infrared.
Rael
Supper's Ready
Cool stuff! Is there a pax photo number one, or did I miss that?