Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (7 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Another TBD from Torpedo Eight, T-3, taxing up flight deck of Hornet circa 15 May 1942 WAYB

 

[Viking1066]

USS SARATOGA passes through the Panama Canal during the late 1930s, with other U.S. Navy Fleet units HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Vought SB2U-1 VindicatorTaking off from USS SARATOGA (CV-3), 8 February 1938 HISN

 

[hw97karbine]

The remains of a Japanese Zero in the foreground as an F6F Hellcat lands at Tarawa on November 29th 1943 shortly after the atoll fell to US forces

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Zündapp KS750 in the mud on the Eastern Front 1943

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[hw97karbine]

hw97karbine no attach found.

posted the wrong image and was editing

 

[Viking1066]

posted the wrong image and was editing

I have done this more than once. One of the guys catches it and lets me know ASAP.

 

[MiTasol]

The remains of a Japanese Zero in the foreground as an F6F Hellcat lands at Tarawa on November 29th 1943 shortly after the atoll fell to US forces

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The A6M series did not have fabric flaps and that appears to have them as you can see through the frame to the sun reflecting off the fillet. Gear doors do look like A6M tho.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate and Kawasaki Ki-48 in RoCAF markings 1945 INHG

 

[Wurger]

The A6M series did not have fabric flaps and that appears to have them as you can see through the frame to the sun reflecting off the fillet. Gear doors do look like A6M tho.

I would say it is the A6M though. The flap you mantioned isn't the one actually but the remnants of the inner wing structure at the flap bay. The top wing metal skin there was ripped off like the pieces of the fuselage skin. In the clipped pic below you may notice the contorted by the cutting edges of the top skin there. Other details like the small panel below the cockpit windshield frame with the outlet pipe and the dismounted large one behind the cooling flaps indicate the Zero IMHO.

 

[MiTasol]

Good one Wurger. Have to agree on all points.

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss SB2C-5 helldivers aboard USS Philippine Sea 1948 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Bright colours of the PBY pictured below is because it belonged to the USAF 4th Rescue Group FITT

 

[Viking1066]

Colour slide taken at Andir, Java before the war. The NEI 'Glenn Martin' bombers were painted in the standard USAAC colour scheme until 1940. M-536, a WH-2 model, is in the background AIRH

 

[SaparotRob]

Cool pic!

 

[Viking1066]

Naval Aircraft Factory-designed, Curtiss-built TS-1s from Fighting Squadron (VF) 1 in flight over USS Langley (CV-1), NAS North Island, San Diego, California, circa 1926 NAVS

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Naval Aircraft Factory-designed, Curtiss-built TS-1s from Fighting Squadron (VF) 1 in flight over USS Langley (CV-1), NAS North Island, San Diego, California, circa 1926 NAVS
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Another one new for me.

 

[Viking1066]

Another one new for me.

I never realized how many the military had made from 1925-1940. The number is staggering.

 

[Viking1066]

Navy pilots, Kamikaze, during similar farewell ceremonies HELI

Army aviation pilots, Shimpu, before their last operation HELI

 

[Viking1066]

Koolhoven F.K.51 'K-9' Netherlands AF Indonesia 1938-1939 AIRH