Looks deceptive. The orange vest man on top of a forklift is using a static probe for eliminating the high voltage static charge the helicopter imparts on the load from blade generated static. That is normally only during hookup since on delivery ends the load is disconnected from remote inside the aircraft. The wiring from the right landing gear to the right cable I'd think is the hooks control for open and close. Too bad the load arrangement isn't visible dues to the field grasses height or a rise in elevation between photographer and load.

Written on 2019年 11月 08日

My dad flew a B-25 before and after hardnosed version came out to the end of the war. Well actually all the way through the war in the pacific. Army Air Force records of tonnage sunk exceed navy tonnage. Navy had major engagements but AAF was 24/7 out there hitting supply convoys and escorts along with port attacks. Low level strafing and bombing by the hardnosed version were devastating to anything in their path. For ground missions they had to put parachutes on bombs to keep them from bouncing up hitting the planes. The tail gunner was deleted due to high losses and wooden poles put in to resemble 50 cal. barrels.

Written on 2017年 05月 12日

B-25 hard nose was the best plane of WW2. 12 pilot controlled 50cal's facing front with electric solenoid recharge/recock to clear jams and plenty of parachute-frag bombs making low level runs ruined japans forces. The arm air corps low level bombers sunk more tonnage of japans ships than the navy. Navy had some big battles but the army air corps was out there every day all those years hunting and sinking anything in range. The pacific B-25's had the tail gunner deleted using painted black wood to look like 5 cals. They would stay on the deck with the top turret handling the rear defense. They lost less men deleting the twin 50's in the tail since that's where the majority of bullets hit. After changing to electric solenoid recharging guns the planes were much more effective making passes on airfield and shipping. Tree parts and ships wire antennas were commonly hanging off of the planes after landing.

Written on 2016年 08月 29日

Al it's a Scimitar Winglet. The bottom winglet is angled making it kind f appear to be going straight back. So pretty much top and bottom winglets with the bottom angled out. You can slightly make out the left wings lower winglet which makes it clearer.

Written on 2016年 01月 15日