Picture of the day

Pictures, anyone?

Spare a thought for the folks aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff for her last run:

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H Wally said:
This'll probably get some appreciation here :d

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There's a small museum in Manitoba that has two bullets that intersected each other at 90 degrees in mid air. A local had picked it up off a battlefield in WWI. When you get that much lead flying around, strange things happen.
 
melbourne said:
Douglas dc-5, captured from Dutch (going from memory here).
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Ding! Winnah! Good job, new guy. :)

Not many Douglas DC-5's made. A few went to the Dutch, and that one was captured by the Japanese, who had their own copy of the DC-3 (the Nakajima L2D) and thus were well versed in Things Douglas.

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Dig the crazy picture window. Better for shoulder checking, I guess. And spinners on the hubs - VERY stylish.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Ding! Winnah! Good job, new guy. :)

Not many Douglas DC-5's made. A few went to the Dutch, and that one was captured by the Japanese, who had their own copy of the DC-3 (the Nakajima L2D) and thus were well versed in Things Douglas.

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Dig the crazy picture window. Better for shoulder checking, I guess. And spinners on the hubs - VERY stylish.
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No, I don't think so.

Original picture shows a tricycle undercart, a mid to hi wing mount, and an up swept lower fuselage at the tail. Not a member of the DC3 family.

Edit: Sorry. I misread the posting. It is a DC-5, but the new picture is unrelated to it.
 
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Dark Alley Dan said:
Ding! Winnah! Good job, new guy. :)

Not many Douglas DC-5's made. A few went to the Dutch, and that one was captured by the Japanese, who had their own copy of the DC-3 (the Nakajima L2D) and thus were well versed in Things Douglas.

Showa_L2D.jpg


Dig the crazy picture window. Better for shoulder checking, I guess. And spinners on the hubs - VERY stylish.
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This DC3 look alike is a Jap made L2D. The give away is the larger cockpit. They moved the navigator and radio operator into the cockpit. That is why it has the extra side windows.
 
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You have me fooled, I would have said it was a variant of the Mitsubishis 4GM "Betty" in post # 6012.

http://japaneseaircraft.devhub.com/img/upload/dsfsgdfrgfrds.jpg

Not a Douglas DC-5 according to;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-5

Not an Italian Fiat BR.20 Cicogna bomber which the Japanese used at the start of 1938.
The Italians also used it to bomb Britain at the start of the Blitz.

http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/917/pics/65_5.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_BR.20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2LktKX3kQQ

http://www.aviastar.org/air/italy/fiat_br-20.php
 
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