Cool pix!

Captain Walker Boone, Flight Officer Manuel Martinez and Flight Officer Jerry Brasher, pilots of the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. 1943

 

Only the last picture is a "G" - the others are "E" without chin turret.

 

I like the sun glasses on the guy on the jeep...
I've often wondered about the sun and flying - All that glass above your head - I had wondered many times why some part of the canopy wasn't tinted.











And if you are flying in Darwin:

 

8th Bomber Command

 

Good reason...reduced visibility would probably be the only good reason for it...but flying above the clouds, sun beating down on the top of your head, for hours...fuck that.

 

Above about Angels 12 the air is too thin to carry heat...it gets colder and colder. But in a cockpit the air would be heated by the sun (like a room is heated by sun shining into it) - But plenty of flying was done below 12 thousand feet. Perhaps in Europe (in winter) heat wasn't a problem...but in the Pacific theatre...hmmm.

 

Yeah some have vents, some dont...Most aircraft were designed for the European theatre so didnt really need vents.
Heating was usually the need so various methods were used to warm the pilot...Above 12 thousand things get cold - But Infra red radiation would still cause the cockpit to heat up, again, not an issue in the ETO, but in the PTO you would need those vents...

 

Yeah you'd be telling the pilot to get higher all the time..."C'mon skip! Give it another thousand, im sweating my ring off here!"
I remember some carrier pilots talking about how refreshing it was once the "big fan" kicked over...

 

“flying down to Rio”

 

Flying Down to Rio - 1933


Believe it or not i couldn't post all the pictures...Some very see through clothes in this movie...!

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Is that the prop spinning or an affect? What an OSHA nightmare!

 

Is there a prop? Ooops didn't see it.