P51 Mustang field service reference manual... its astonishing what you can stumble across at the swap meet, selected interesting pages

 

 

Hurst Armed Forces Club, the Performance Special golf cart, and the shifter girls... photos I've never seen before, and a Hurst group I've never heard of

How incredible to see a jeep in the Hurst colors, with those terrific looking Hurst rims, and the girls in uniform

found on http://www.flickr.com/photos/57343654@N03/sets/?&page=3

Just a gust of wind

This misfortunate pilot landed his vintage tri-plane on its nose. The man had been flying the famous Fokker Dreidecker aircraft at the Flying Legends airshow at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambsridgeshire. But when he landed the WW1 fighter aircraft a sudden gust of wind blew it on its nose. No one was hurt in the incident. (Philip Tyler / Rex) http://news.yahoo.com/photos/snapshots-week-of-june-3-1307133161-slideshow/#crsl=

Every now and then then landing gear won't operate when you need it most, like the South Pacific in 1945

But that day wasn't a bad one, USMC pilot Ken Pruitt ran it out of fuel, and then coasted onto an atoll airstrip nice a slow and safe. Each of the 5 crewmembers decided to ride it out rather than parachute down... and they all walked away. Read about it at http://www.lyonairmuseum.org/news/b-25-belly-landing-on-pacific-island/

More cool stuff from 5window.tumblr.com

all from http://5window.tumblr.com but beware that it's changed a bit from being primarily race cars and hot rods, there are lots of nude women, lingerie, etc etc. Yup, that's awesome, but don't let your boss sneak up on you to see what you are surfing the web looking at

B-2 Hydraulic Bomb Lift, Mobile, 50,000 pound capacity... circa 1950

found on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/

either needs ballast in the back, or Darth Vader has this in a tractor beam

p-51 mustang

found at http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/148458/20110519/rare-color-photos-from-depression-era-part-2.htm

M3 tanks at Ft Knox Kentucky during war games pre-WW2

Found among 2 galleries of rare depression era color photos http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/148458/20110519/rare-color-photos-from-depression-era-part-2.htm

Even a Morgan has been painted in the Flying Tiger sharks grin

Found on http://wwwmartelo.blogspot.com/2011/04/return-to-future-morgan-3-wheeler.html

MIlitary surplus motorcycles for sale in 1946 (great photo) in bulk, it was between 5 and 10 you had to buy to get any.

from http://momentdinspiration.blogspot.com/

1934, the all the west coast longshoremen, teamsters, and seamen unions went on strike and the national guard was called in

The nationwide labor upsurge of 1934 reached its peak in San Francisco. On May 9, 1934, leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) called a strike of all West Coast dockworkers, demanding a wage scale of the 6-day, 30-hour week at a minimum rate of $1 per hour, a “closed shop” (union membership as a requirement of employment), and union-administered hiring halls.

On May 15 teamsters, boilermakers and machinists voted a sympathy strike along with sailors and marine firemen’s union, involving 4,000 men, and 700 marine cooks and stewards took similar action the next day. Ferry boatmen, masters, mates and pilots, and marine engineers first struck against several companies for higher wages and a closed-shop contract, and subsequently the entire local was called out in a body. Not a single freighter left a Pacific coast port “for the first time in history.”

Enraged employers, backed by a sympathetic mayor and police chief, used every means available to open the waterfront and protect strikebreakers, whom they imported in large numbers. Working closely with local politicians and the press, the employers set out to convince the public that the strike was controlled by “Reds” intent on overthrowing the government.

These scare tactics led to an investigation of employer actions by a Senate subcommittee. The flagrant destruction of many of the records of the Industrial Association, described in this report, effectively prevented the Committee from obtaining full documentary evidence on the activities of the association. Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor, the subcommittee’s 1942 report, described the concerted efforts of the Industrial Association, the newspapers, and the San Francisco police to discredit the strike.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5134/ for the entire report

Didn't see that in your American History book did you. Just one case in a long history of corporate greed versus workers and unions, and just one example of the people with the money fdoing anything at all to make more money and the people with power abusing it. Both the money and the power calling the shots and forcing the cops and national guard to shoot the strikers. No kidding.
Photos from http://www.johngutmann.org/

Walter's junkyard of pre-1960's military aircraft, including a

Vought F7U Cutlass, a B-25 Mitchell, a Douglas Skyraider and the artcle mentions a B-36 Peacemaker (big bomber) which would be so enormous it would have to have a field all to itself



from http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2010/11/a-haunting-video-of-an-abandoned-airplane-graveyard.html via http://lostinjersey.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/in-ohio-lies-an-airplane-graveyard/

1957 Chevy delivery van dedicated to a Marine fallen in battle in Vietnam, Michael B Grimes, USMC, Vietnam 1967