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@UnwantedBlog And obviously I don't have a lot of faith in this attempt at AI restoration, just for whatever it might be worth:

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@UnwantedBlog Not that it helps with the really small (and potentially useful) text, but looks like they printed a mirrored image:

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B-17G Flying Fortress
"Sentimental Journey"

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B-25J Mitchell "Maid in the Shade"

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@FlyingScot57 @joeblillib4090 At Davis-Monthan, but I'm not sure whether this would be pre-MASDC designation or what. There was a lot of cleanout at the time to make room for incoming - like the B-36s that needed to be scrapped, and that's where the pics of stacked Thunderjets and swept-wing -84Fs come from

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@clark_aviation @RAFMUSEUM If airplanes could talk: "You know, I served with your grandfather in the war..." (The Shackleton of course being a descendant of the Lancaster by way of the Lincoln)

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@RealAirPower1 I seem to recall seeing a B&W version - or another pic the same event from another angle - in an issue of Aviation Week at the time.

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@AtomicCoyote61 @eigenrobot AGM-45 Shrike; first generation anti-radar missile derived from the AIM-7 Sparrow AAM. The other side of the F-105G, showing another AGM-45 alongside an AGM-78 Standard ARM - the first air launched version of the Standard SAM, and thus, an ancestor of sorts to today's AIM-174.

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@AtomicCoyote61 Boeing did investigate quite the number of jet transport designs that differed greatly from the 707 as it ultimately took form. A while back, I speculated what the Model 473 B-52 derived airliner design might have looked like had it been bought by the USAF as a tanker:

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@AeroPaleo Tried with another early Vulcan concept; they still need work:

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@AtomicCoyote61 IIRC, one of the unsuccessful competitors to the Lockheed P-7, which ultimately didn't fare much better

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@Boneyardsafari Some SCB-27 ships deployed with Regulus IIRC. Looks like they thought about it with the Forrestals

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@Boneyardsafari Regulus I SSM! At least, I think so

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@ron_eisele

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@AirPir_Southern An attempt at color restoration:

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@UnwantedBlog Save for the Turbo Mustang III and later the Piper Enforcer, this had to be about the final US try at wringing out the last little bit of potential out of a WW2 propeller-driven fighter design.

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@azillion_737 Prior to it appearing at the London Air Show last year, it made a tour of my region: