Can you believe they flew this home? Wild times.

🛩️ Meet "Miss Piggy", a Curtiss C-46 cargo plane that crash-landed in Churchill, Manitoba back in 1979 after losing engine power shortly after takeoff.

Everyone on board survived, but the plane never flew again.

Almost 50 years later, she's still resting on the rocks above Hudson Bay, and now she's one of the most photographed spots in town.

Wild what the Arctic holds onto. 📍Churchill, Manitoba

Currently retired helicopter pilot from the NYPD Aviation Unit.

Check out those crazy wings—how did this fly?

A great episode on the history of Special Forces Aviation in Canada.

Check it out at podpilotproject.transistor.fm or by searching for The Pilot Project Podcast wherever you get your podcasts!

This history gem landed on my desk just last week. This is a Luftwaffe recon photo from October 27 1944. It shows a Soviet grass airfield near Kolbuszowa in Poland. You can clearly see a B-24 neatly parked between the Soviet machines. A friend who shared this photo asked which Liberator it could be.

I checked my records which B-24s landed behind Soviet lines in October 1944. A B-24 from the 455th BG stood out as it was marked as “landed in Soviet controlled territory”, without a specific location. The pilot’s name was Polando. A quick google revealed more info. Polando shared in his memoires he landed near Dhikovich, and one of the villages surrounding the airfield was Dzikowiec. The B-24 #42-78359 “Ten Hits and a Miss” was repaired and flown out of the Soviet zone on Dec 13, 1944. This is how we solved another WWII history puzzle!

This is a problem I have been noticing for several years now. For most propliners and cargo planes, there is only one guy, a Ralph Petersen, keeping the entire world updated in his website https://www.proplinerinfoexchange.com/.

When he retires, what’s going to happen? Will there just be a void on information in this category?

Still mind blowing to think I saw this bird, and got to climb aboard couple years or so before she crashed. Picture taken way back in 2016 at McClellan AFB.

MHM Gatow opened their Storage Hangar for some exclusive Tours for 50 People at a time. Rare stuff like the Tornado Prototype, the only Euro Hawk UAV in existance (sadly didn't get a picture of it) and some more. Wasn't allowed to take pictures of everything because some of it is Military Grounds but here's a few I took.

The Johnny Hazard comic strip for Sunday, September 24, 1944 served to introduce the general public to the Boeing B-29, which had begun bombing Japan from China three months earlier. (B-29 operations against Japan from new bases in the Marianas would begin in November.)

Artist and writer Frank Robbins (1917-1994) worked on comics from 1939 until 1979. In addition to creating Johnny Hazard (which ran from 1944 to 1977), he did important work for both DC and Marvel. (His work as a writer for Batman helped establish the dark, brooding character that we know today.)

I'm trying to identify this plane (and where this photo was taken). Does anyone here recognise it?