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[Viking1066]

Loire being launched from a shore-based catapult. Production totaled 150 aircraft, which was deemed sufficient to provide scouting assets for the French fleet INHG

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Tupolev Tu-2S Bat [unmarked] Monino 2012 FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Vyugov A-5 'EVS-017' Monino 2012 FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Seagull MkV RAAF A2 2 Black 076 assigned to cruiser HMAS Perth 1935 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Yakolev Yak-18 '03 white' basic Yak-18 type at Monino FLIK

 

[Lucky13]

U.S. Army Piper Cub planes on a captured Japanese airfield in the Admiralty Islands in the Southwest Pacific,
17th of April 1944.

 

[Lucky13]

A wrecked C6N-1 aircraft of the Japanese Navy's 121st Kokutai lies in a hangar at Ushi Point Airfield, Tinian,
Mariana Islands, on the 30th of July, 1944. Notably, a Marine Corps Curtiss R5C-1 Commando is visible in the background.

 

[Frog]

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U.S. Army Piper Cub planes on a captured Japanese airfield in the Admiralty Islands in the Southwest Pacific,
17th of April 1944.

I would rather say Aeronca L3s.

 

[Lucky13]

Iwo Jima....

 

[Lucky13]

The U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) in a Western Pacific storm off Wakayama, Japan, circa 3-7 October
1945. Another escort carrier is steaming astern, beyond her starboard quarter. The carriers were searching for a
Martin PBM-5 Mariner (BuNo 59336) of Patrol Bombing Squadron 205 (VPB-205).
The PBM was lost on 2 October with Rear Admiral William D. Sample as passenger. The wreck was finally found in 1948.

 

[Lucky13]

That bloody ebay....well, at least it's only one previous owner!

A USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt undergoing maintenance at airfield A-3 near Cardonville in #Normandy, August 1944.
The tracked vehicle is an M2 airfield tractor.

Photo: Frank Scherschel

 

[Lucky13]

A B-29 and its escorts....

 

[Lucky13]

Assembly and Repairs Department senior supervisor Eloise J. Ellis, standing near the tail of a Navy plane
at Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, August 1942.

Photo by Howard R. Hollem

 

[Count de Bastrop]

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U.S. Army Piper Cub planes on a captured Japanese airfield in the Admiralty Islands in the Southwest Pacific,
17th of April 1944.

Not all Piper Cubs; the nearest one is an Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper. It's a little unusual to see one of them in an overseas combat zone - most stayed stateside. The error is forgivable, as most contemporary caption writers called the L-2, L-3, and L-6 Piper Cubs even though they weren't.

 

[Greg Boeser]

That was wartime censorship in action. Didn't want to give away too much info to spies and 5th columnists, so deliberately mislabelled photos.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Press me any harder and I will invoke the National Secrets Act.

 

[Lucky13]

Veronica Foster, Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl....

 

[Viking1066]

first Friedrichshafen with a fully enclosed fuselage, this is the FF 17a '64' in its first single float version seen here at the Bodensee-Wettbewerb 1914 FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Friedrichshafen FF 33e '841' Wölfchen 1916 FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Friedrichshafen FF33E '717' class BFT with. larger vertical tail May 1916 FLYN