Photo Thead: Show Us Your Plane!

Fearless Tower said:
Not exactly. The J is the Department of the Navy designation for North American Aircraft. For Navy/USMC aircraft, the third letter is the manufacturer code.

B=Beech, also used for Boeing
C=Curtiss
D=Douglas
F=Grumman
J=North American
M=General Motors
N=Naval Aircraft Factory
S=Stearman
Y=Consolidated
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A few others:

G=Goodyear
K=Fairchild
O, V=Lockheed
U=Vought

Obviously there were more than 26 manufacturers so there was a lot of duplication and inconsistency. It was a confusing mess by the time the unified Tri-Service military designation system was implemented in 1962.
 
Here is my plane and grandson following his first flight in it:
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heck, if we're counting that stuff, I have 3 more airplanes to share:

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Tuesday evening in Iowa. Brent Taylor took this pic of the Parrakeet.
 

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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
So, howzecome no one shows their airplane looking like this?
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Because they are too embarrassed to flaunt their nice powered hangar door? That's what I think every time I push mine open and closed, especially now that temps are in the high-90s and heat indexes are in the mid-100s.
 
Not fancy but lots of fun!
 

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Straight tails are the best! (And Airplanes with vertical stabilizers the aren't slanted back are pretty cool too!)
 
Nope, doesn't count. Those are work planes and not "your plane." :D
 
Velocity173 said:
Nope, doesn't count. Those are work planes and not "your plane." :D
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Very true! (although one of them does have my name on it...) :D

I was just following along in the "planes I spend a lot of time with" post since I spend more with the last three than I get to spend with my Bo. :(

Hey, at least I started the post with pics of "my plane" right? :dunno: :)
 
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Cool thread. Here are a few pics of mine.

In flight, over Death Valley.
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In my spiffed up hangar (added lighting, epoxy floor coating, painted walls, organized the stuff, and brought my models to hang up)
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This one's already in the thread once, but I took this pic just now, and thought it was worthy.... My wife over the runway 10 numbers at KBJJ...from the back porch. Cheapy 250mm on a Canon EOS. Life is good!

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