Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (3 Viewers)

[cammerjeff]

How about a Civilian P-61 (actually a F-15 Photo version)

source The XB of Mexican Aviation

 

[Viking1066]

Douglas TBD Devastator with torpedo loaded on USS Enterprise CV-6 during the Doolittle Raid - April 1942 Note USS Northampton CA-26 in the background REDD

 

[Viking1066]

A pair of Douglas SBD-5 bombers fly past their carrier in November 1943 USNA

 

[Viking1066]

Ships of the U.S. Fleet pictured at anchor at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during winter exercises in 1927 (Fleet Problem VII, March 1927?) NAVS

 

[Viking1066]

Opening of Kallang airport. The governor of Singapore hopped over from Seletar to Kallang in Artemis, which is flanked by RAF Vildebeest torpedo-bombers and a flight of blue and yellow Netherlands East Indies army Martin 139 bombers 1937 AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

FG-1D of the VMF-323 'Death Rattlers' in formation over Okinawa June 10, 1945 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

TBM-3E assigned to VT-83 aboard USS Essex (CV-9) during closing phases of the war NMNA

 

[Viking1066]

SB2C-3s of VB-20 being launched from USS Lexington (CV-16) 1944 NMNA

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), stern view, 16 July 1943 NAVS

 

[Viking1066]

F/A-18D Hornet (VMFA(AW)-242) refueling over Japan - April 2016 SEOR

 

[Viking1066]

BT-13 WIKI

 

[SaparotRob]

Beautiful.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

U.S. ships passing under the Golden Gate Bridge 12 November 1936, while under construction. The carriers (from front to rear) are USS LEXINGTON (CV-2), USS RANGER (CV-4), and the USS SARATOGA (CV-3)

 

[MIflyer]

BT-13 Meki

Had a nice chat with the owner about polishing techniques. One reason there are so few BT-13 around now is that the engines and MLG were very attractive to cropdusters.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

XB-9 in factory FLIK

 

[SaparotRob]

Air Classics did an article on the B-9 in the early seventies (?). I spent a lot of that year drawing it. It actually got me started researching Boeing bombers.
I didn't get very far.

 

[Viking1066]

Daniel Field (now Augusta Regional Airport) Georgia, BT-13/15s , 1943 PICR