Cool pix!

The photo plane is upside down, of course.

 

Nato Air Base Sigonella, gettin' some love from Mt. Etna. I was there '72-'75, living on the lower slopes of the volcano.

 

Ain't got a clue but I'd pay good money to experience some flight time. Dreamed I plopped down $1,500 for a P51 ride last night. Gotta stay away from Tequila.

 

Well spotted, CAC, that cockpit is indeed a B-17 pilot's office.

 

"Moffett, old and the new...The C-5 dwarfs the WWII era."

 

"The Italian Spica class torpedoboat Lupo entering Taranto after she sustained 18 hits from 3 British cruisers and 4 destroyers while defending a convoy off Crete, 3June 1941. [975×550]"

 

"Dido class light cruiser HMS Bellona, newly completed, in November 1943 [1361 x 717]."

 

"New Orleans-class cruiser USS Astoria in Sydney Harbor during its shakedown cruise in the Pacific after its commissioning. Aug 1934. (2001x1501)"

 

"County class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex in her modernised late-war form, 4 April 1945 [1839 x 736]."

 

"3,7 cm Selbstfahrlafette L/70 (provisionally armed with the basic PaK) on the chassis of a Hansa-Lloyd HL kl 3 - back in 1935 the Wehrmacht considered fast, turreted TDs of the style that would be later adopted by the US. Underpowered, gun mounted on a central stalk that wasted space, never adopted."

 

"Sherman Firefly! The Firefly were built on predominantly the M4A4 Sherman. Over 340 Fireflys were available for the D-Day landings."

 

"[1865 x 11482]USS Langley (CVL-27) underway off Cape Henry, Virginia, 6 Oct 1943; note SNJ aircraft on flight deck and K-class airship from Lighter Than Air Squadron ZP-14 overhead."

 

"[1850 x 1451]USS New Mexico (BB-40) in late 1943, possibly at Pearl Harbor."

I can't fit that shot to Pearl.