aeroplanes

So Rain Man told us a lie !!!

The aircraft was an Airco (later de Havilland DH.9C ) a converted World War I light bomber, that stalled on landing approach. "At first stripped DH.9s were used to carry one passenger behind the pilot in the gunner's position, but later versions, designated DH.9B, added a second passenger seat ahead of the pilot. A second seat behind the pilot was added by extending the rear cockpit in the early DH.9C. Later it had this rear position converted to hold two passengers face to face, protected by a faired dorsal canopy or cabin."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.9C

List of Qantas fatal accidents
"While Qantas has never had a fatal jet airliner accident, the Australian national airline suffered losses in its early days before the widespread adoption of jets in civilian aviation. These were mainly biplanes or flying boats servicing routes in Queensland and New Guinea."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qantas_fatal_accidents

This particular aircraft is a photo reconnaissance variant of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a Lockheed F-4 Lightning (USAAF Ser. no. 41-2217, c/n 222-5435). Note the covered gun ports and large camera window on the port side of the nose behind the number "17." As per the Joe Baugher site, its disposition is listed as, "salvaged in Australia Sep 26, 1944." See: www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1941_1.html www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p38_9.html

Thank you for this information TVL1970. I'll see if I can add this information to our catalogue..

Am I seeing something that is not there or is there an odd sort of border around the aircraft? Could it have been added in to this image?