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Post by mickywest on May 9, 2020 14:18:44 GMT
The wonderful new Kodachrome film was on the market in time to capture the Grumman Goose (f/f 1937) and Widgeon (f/f 1940), civilian types readily adopted by military forces in WWII Goose Mk 1A Royal Navy USCG JRF Goose USCG J4F Widgeon USAAF ATC Widgeon at Goose Bay, Labrador ca.1943
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Post by mickywest on May 10, 2020 23:06:48 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 13, 2020 23:33:27 GMT
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Post by mickywest on May 14, 2020 15:28:34 GMT
The American charity, the British American Ambulance Corps, purchased a Goose (N3022) and a Widgeon ('The Cape Codder')to support wounded British servicemen before Pearl Harbour...(the Widgeon is shown being crated by Dade bros.) Goose NC18913 (c/n 1004) with Pan American as a liaison type supporting the ferry operation of aircraft to British forces through Natal, Brazil around September 1941 Hart Preston/LIFE Magazine
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Post by mickywest on May 15, 2020 18:40:15 GMT
Can't find any photos of Lord Beaverbrook's G-AFKJ but reregistered as NC37000 for the Inter-American Escadrille or Escadrille InterAmericano it toured South America in 1941 on a charm offensive After the USA's entry into the war Goose #1049 was supplied to the RAF as MV993 (24 Sqdn)
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Post by mickywest on May 15, 2020 22:42:38 GMT
The Swedish Air Force operated the Goose on rather neat skis as the Tp81 The NYPD operated a Goose NC1200V #1145 , background suggests late 1940s Post-war NACA used a succession of US Navy Goose examples confusingly all bearing the mark NACA-103
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Post by mickywest on May 16, 2020 22:56:10 GMT
The French Navy used the Grumman Goose in Indochina and North Africa Seaborne Goose delivery to the French in Indo China (mid 1950s) Below in unknown locations
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Post by mickywest on May 16, 2020 23:06:04 GMT
Three early post-war civilian Widgeons at the Bethpage factory NC866624 off Long Island Widgeon with modified hull 'Petulant Porpoise' at the Pima Museum
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Post by mickywest on May 16, 2020 23:11:57 GMT
Prototype Mallard NX41824 off Long Island Boris Sergievsky a WWI Russian fighter ace and one time Sikorsky test pilot operated a Goose pre-war and a Mallard post-war connecting New Yorks Downtown Skyport with millionaire territory in upstate New York. The Mallard (J-4 N2940) seen here on a transatlantic family trip at London Airport (Heathrow) ca.1949 (Brenards Press Photo?) The tall younger man under the cockpit is believed to be Boris' son, Orest Sergievsky, who served in the USAAF Pacific theatre WWII and was a noted classical ballet dancer/choreographer post-war G-ASCS Ferranti's Mallard , Heathrow South late 1960s
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Post by mickywest on May 23, 2020 22:45:56 GMT
By the late 1950s conversion companies started to fit more powerful engines to the Grumman amphibians...a Goose with 4 Lycomings, Widgeons with flat-six engines and turboprop versions of the Goose and Mallard McKinnon 4-engine conversion of Goose B-78, AP-AUY Gatwick 1967 en route to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) McKinnon style turbine conversion of G-ASXG, performed by Marshalls of Cambridge in the 1960s , but not allocated a McKinnon production number Widgeon N25DF modified with Lycoming GO-480 six-cylinder engines and additional McKinnon modifications such as the 'retractable' floats on single struts N1208 (Frakes)Turbo-Mallard of Chalks in Florida Attachments:
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Post by mickywest on May 23, 2020 22:46:24 GMT
Image store. Attachments:
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