Steve C.

Here's a plane I was only vaguely aware of:

Looks like the passengers had an unobstructed view for sure.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen in a while. Age restriction on WWII footage but not on totally inappropriate vulgar subjects. Wow.

Here's some candy for the eyes, and the ears.

I don't know why the video above is age restricted, but I couldn't link to it from my post. I don't have a ewetube account, but if you do you should be able to watch it. If you don't, just search ewetube for USS Enterprise to find several amazing videos. I have no idea why I was able to watch it last night.

Still more "new" triple A footage from the Enterprise and Hornet. Amazing work on the part of damage control parties after bomb hits. Great detail. Hard to imagine how they managed to do it.

Our accountant used to fly twin engine planes a lot (ferried civilian prisoners), and got to take the yoke for a while in the Aluminum Overcast (B17) when it was in the St. Louis area for an air show. I don't remember what he paid for the privilege, but when I asked him what it was like, he just said LOUD.

Another seaplane. Kind of fascinating to me.

I found a couple of pictures of a Martin P5M seaplane that my grandpa took while on a trip to San Diego in the 1950s. Interesting bird.

I think the mechanics fabbed a lot of stuff in the field that later made it into production.

Never saw a glass nose B25 with that many .50s. Here's one with eight in the nose and four on the fuselage. I read that they could cut a small ship pretty much in half. And another one with 75mm and four .50s.

More triple A courtesy the USN. Amazing footage I've never seen before. At exactly 2:56 you can see a kamikaze get hammered hard. I can only try to imagine the friendly fire from other ships that the gunners had to deal with. This one's equally good:

I wanted to post this in The Randy Sohn Memorial Airplane (anitairplane?) thread, but couldn't bring it up in a search and didn't have time to keep digging for it. Not quite about airplanes, but almost. Anyway, pretty interesting stuff. Anybody that can find Randy's thread maybe could copy this and paste there.

Here's a big ole plane that I wasn't aware of.

Ain't that the truth.

Those darned Eye-talians. The same people who design and build Ferraris.

Good things to ask for.

My dad: "Straighten up and fly right, and act like you had some sense".

I think we're about to find out why those old-fashioned people who lived through the great depression part one saved string and rubber bands and cool whip containers and nails and coffee cans and..... It's been awfully easy to buy stuff, then throw away what you don't want.

"so often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key" From Already Gone, my favorite Eagles song of all time. Here's Don Felder doing it live recently: https://rumble.com/vej7e9-don-felder-1.html

I heard of $20 around here. I like 'em, but maybe not that much.