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[Lucky13]

 

[special ed]

If only this data and photos had been available in 1956. This was my first large scale kit, From Sterling models, shown while a bit of referbishment a few years ago.

 

[special ed]

As a bit of trivia, my eyes were excellent then, and I was used to building plastics, I was able to make stencils of the P.Z.L. logo and the fuselage emblem.

 

[Wurger]

If only this data and photos had been available in 1956. This was my first large scale kit, From Sterling models, shown while a bit of referbishment a few years ago.View attachment 878757
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Excellent. !

 

[MiTasol]

Walrus MkI FAA assigned HMS Prince of Wales ASBIZ
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Great photo as it shows how the crewman got on top of the wing to reach the sling.

Oops - cammerjeff beat me to it.

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Vickers Vildebeest British biplane designed in the late 1920s and introduced into RAF service in the early 1930s PEPO

 

[Viking1066]

V-156-F, aircraft number 3, on the ramp at Lanveor-Roulmie was believed to have been assigned to AB1 MUSE

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

 

[MiTasol]

Walrus FACB
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And this one confirms my guess that the sling was probably often permanently mounted on aircraft that were operating off catapults.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

A Vought Kingfisher from USS New York, BB-34, on a dawn patrol over Iceland, summer 1945.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Viking1066]

Door art representing an Airacobra of 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (TRS), 71st TRG AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

famale worker at the Douglas Aircraft Factory working on plexiglas nose of a B-17F 1942 BLOO

 

[Viking1066]

Bristol 142M Blenheim Mk1 December 1941 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

Marlene Dietrich with members of the 47th Bomb Group Italy 1944 BLOO

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss Hawk 75A-6 Germans inspect Curtiss aircraft near Kjeller after 9 April [1940].' 439 to Finland as CU-560 1940

 

[Viking1066]

WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mate Mary Arnold jumping down from the fuselage of a SNJ training aircraft NAS Jacksonville Nov 1943 WW2B