P51 Pilot - Lt. Jim Brooks
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Thanks Randy, a beautiful and moving film.
Thanks to Jim and all the guys like him who came over here and helped to keep us free.
Dave
Thanks to Jim and all the guys like him who came over here and helped to keep us free.
Dave
Terry Oxandale
Skinny Man
Very Nice! Wonderful men in fantastic machines. Beautiful story!
The Mustang is the flying equivalent of the GT40, and has held my admiration since I was a kid. I've probably built in some form or fashion 15 RC Mustangs from the old Ace pulse proportional sets to an 8 channel. When I saw the movie "Cloud Dancer", the Mustang scenes made the movie a hit for me.
The Mustang is the flying equivalent of the GT40, and has held my admiration since I was a kid. I've probably built in some form or fashion 15 RC Mustangs from the old Ace pulse proportional sets to an 8 channel. When I saw the movie "Cloud Dancer", the Mustang scenes made the movie a hit for me.
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Jack Houpe
GT40s Supporter
Outstanding! 5 star!
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Thanks Randy, a great post. The Mustang has always been one of my favorite aircraft. What a great restoration of the old birds.
Charlie Farley
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An interesting but little known fact.
The design of the P 51 was commissioned to a Royal Airforce design brief, overseen by the old Air Ministry. Then retro fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine to make it competitive in the European theatre of operations.
A complete opposite of the parts and nations of origin to the old 40.
The design of the P 51 was commissioned to a Royal Airforce design brief, overseen by the old Air Ministry. Then retro fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine to make it competitive in the European theatre of operations.
A complete opposite of the parts and nations of origin to the old 40.
I was out working on my plane the other day and the hangar across fomr me opened up - nice P51 and a P38 - real nice. A little while later a P51 taxied out for takeoff. What a nice sound that merlin has...
My dad was stationed in England and flew P51's over Europe during WWII. He was shot down three times (once by friendly fire), twice behind enemy lines, captured once by the Nazis and escaped. You can still find his confirmed kill on the internet. He would never talk about the war, but would occasionally talk about the thrill of flying the P51.....after WWII he stayed on in England for a while, test flying the USAF's high altitude pressure suit that eventually morphed into the suits the astronauts wear. He had nothing but kind comments regarding the hospitality of the Brittish.
Many thanks to all over there for getting him home safely!
Many thanks to all over there for getting him home safely!
Whereabouts, do you know ?
Wish I did.....I'm sure I could find out somehow, but his USAF personnel file perished in a house fire decades ago, only some mementos left now.
Does this help?
8th Air Force Fighter Group - Littlefriends.co.uk
Here is a bit more info about him:
http://forum.armyairforces.com/Lt-Jerome-Sainlar-and-plane-serial-m122321.aspx
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Looks like your dad was stationed at RAF Fowlmere.
I go shooting in Lincolnshire sometimes and there are a lot of disused bases there. If it had been one of those I could have taken some photos for you, if anything remained.
Sadly Fowlmere is in East Anglia and nothing worth mentioning of the base is left.
We really do appreciate the sacrifices you guys made during WW2
I was born in the late 60's but my parents were of the wartime generation, so it was interesting to read that your dads unit provided air cover for the D-Day landings - MY dad was in one of the landing craft the fighters were there to protect
I go shooting in Lincolnshire sometimes and there are a lot of disused bases there. If it had been one of those I could have taken some photos for you, if anything remained.
Sadly Fowlmere is in East Anglia and nothing worth mentioning of the base is left.
We really do appreciate the sacrifices you guys made during WW2
I was born in the late 60's but my parents were of the wartime generation, so it was interesting to read that your dads unit provided air cover for the D-Day landings - MY dad was in one of the landing craft the fighters were there to protect
David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
RAF Fowlmere airfield, 339th FG
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/usaf/Fowlmere.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0900913096/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
I think it is but I cant be sure if this was the book I did the piloting for the aerial shots with a photographer in the back hanging out the window. I think his Weston Light meter
fell out somehwere because I was estimating the light for him.
Dead easy really , 800 ASA = F8 at 1/1000. (Every picture I ever took came out grainy !)
Those flights would have been about 1976. Many of the airfields were no longer visible
and had, by then, returned to full time agriculture especially in East Anglia where the 8th Army Air Force were mainly based.
http://www.content-delivery.co.uk/aviation/airfields/usaf/Fowlmere.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0900913096/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
I think it is but I cant be sure if this was the book I did the piloting for the aerial shots with a photographer in the back hanging out the window. I think his Weston Light meter
fell out somehwere because I was estimating the light for him.
Dead easy really , 800 ASA = F8 at 1/1000. (Every picture I ever took came out grainy !)
Those flights would have been about 1976. Many of the airfields were no longer visible
and had, by then, returned to full time agriculture especially in East Anglia where the 8th Army Air Force were mainly based.
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Here's a great collection of WWII photos. . . mostly of Army Air Corps after they were established on Iwo Jima. Lot's of air ops with crews and their aircraft: P-51s, B-29s and P-61s. Some Marine action and results of Japanese banzai attack.
Picasa Web Albums - Mark - Iwo Jima
Picasa Web Albums - Mark - Iwo Jima