January makes a year for me so it turns out I’m a quitter after all!
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WWJBBD?
What Would J.B. Books Do?
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S: Farmer Forever.
Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7/Trop: Parasol Please.
Another bizarrely hot day here.
A “Tropical Emil” zeroing its 20mm MG FF wing cannons on the scorching North African desert. Magnificent photo, both composition and pic angle.
ZEP DINER: Fancy a “Hinden Burger”?.
Germany was not the only country that caught the “Zeppelin Fever”. Gorgeous photo of the Zep Diner of 515 W. Florence Ave (Los Angeles), taken around 1931.
..and if you need to fill it out: http://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/airplane-filling-station-fill-it-upplease/
Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello: Lovely Guano-Droppers (II).
Flock day “Chez Antonio”!!. Just a superb pic of a formation of Pispitrelli (Bats) flying under a magnificently overcast weather…. I didn’t know Bats fly in flocks.
The Pispitrello: http://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/savoia-marchetti-sm-81a-pipistrello-lovely-guano-dropper/
CANT Z.1007bis Alcione: Precious Italian Imbroglio
The magnificent Alcione (Kingfisher) was designed starting in 1935 by the great Filippo Zappata, a sort of derivate of his superb CANT Z.506. As usual with Italian big aircrafts of the era the Z.1007 was three-engined,a trend necessary due to the meagre power output of their local engines. The Alcione was, with the SM.79 “Gobbo”, one of the best medium bombers of the Regia Aeronautica, but also a especially good reconaissance aircraft. The main handicap of these excellent aircrafts apart of their engine layout was their all-wood structure,easily damaged by the extreme climates.
Curiously the Z.1007’s were built at the same time in both single and twin tail arrangements (the later improved markely their questionable longuitudinal stability) and they were operated mixed in the same units…some crews prefered one and anothers the other.
Such a pretty thing; those Piaggio P.XI bis R.C.40’s roarin’.
Meccanica Mekaniikka Mecanică 