Aero Vintage Books

CGI no, miniatures yes (for the helicopter crashes). Very good quality - like the Lydecker brothers had done it.

Dated November '44, which per Osborne puts it with 274 BU at Herington AAF in Kansas; terveurn please verify? Note the odd placement of the buzz number above the serial. https://www.ebay.com/itm/374298179351 https://www.ebay.com/itm/304656604361 B-17F trainer 42-5371 11-44 274 BU Herington.jpg B-17F...

Good catch, Steve! That seller also has a couple shots of another F stateside trainer (see next thread).

Nuts, forgot to get a bid in - another view of B-17B ditching trainer Fritz the Ditch. Are those liferafts on the nacelles?

The lot's already up to $76, so here's the next best thing: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051117_9f3359a950_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399567801_60bf2e8b2e_o.jpg Another Fort in (almost a) hangar: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399567761_780c57c120_o.jpg https://ww...

And one other thing about that tail number:

Joe Baugher wrote:42-3578 ... 42-3683
Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
3613 (MSN 26746/CU386) DBR Aug 17, 1944

Maybe not the same? The tail number's a lot higher on the fin, like the 44-6xxx/8xxx series often were.

Got it - will scan and post here and on Flickr when it arrives.

Another Hawaii D-model showed up on eBay; look close behind engine #3 and you can just see a camoed B-18 as well. Dated April 8, 1942: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185553911887 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322699107_84923ef770_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323940380_6da3c52a92_b.j...

Expensive, to be sure, but here's a whole bunch of detailed interior shots of DB-17 drone director equipment that might be helpful to an author or researcher: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155008322670 Note the serial position on the fin; POF's Piccadilly Lily was marked like that long ago: https://live....

On eBay right now: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51972681448_94b230fcfb_o.jpg Not much to go on here: Later G model with staggered windows, all turrets but tail deleted, and the ball turret opening isn't faired over. No star and bar, or even a shadow where it was. Mark on the tail looks like m...

On eBay right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194924146559
43-39087, 44-8893, and 43-39346. All three at Bradley Field after returning from overseas.

Holy cow, where did you find this? First good shot of Walnut Ridge B-17s I've seen, and I'd have paid a kidney for it if I saw it on eBay. What a good high-res scan could tell us... and 42-102875 has to be in there somewhere. Notes: Hobbs plane in lower left corner? Next two over from that: 44-8941 ...

Anything usable here? You can zoom a long way in:
https://d.library.unlv.edu/digital/coll ... 74/rec/188

From the UNLV archive, this one was at the Vegas gunnery school but no Z-code here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51917023476_9edcce46a1_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51917120003_39cac593e2_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51917023791_1ce0147858_b.jpg Osborne says Ephrata ...