Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (52 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

A-3 Falcons of the 26th Attack Squadron, Wheeler Field 1930s JIVE

 

[Viking1066]

Battleships and other ships of the U.S. Seen from USS Lexington. Fleet at anchor in Panama bay on 26 February 1929 at the completion of that year's fleet problem HISN

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

An erupting Mount Vesuvius didn't stop the bombers getting through in March 1944, as several B25s headed for Monte Cassino REDD

 

[Zippythehog]

The one on the right appears to be Miss Apprehensive.

If I were standing in my bathing suit, with a parachute on, barefoot, on a horizontal stab of a big tail dragger, I'd be apprehensive.

 

[Viking1066]

An F4B-4 from Fighting and Bombing Six ready for deck launch from USS Saratoga during 1934 USNA

 

[Viking1066]

AT-6s USAAF

 

[Viking1066]

Anchored in Panama Bay, off the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal, 25 October 1934. In the distance are Panama City, right, and Balboa, left. USS TEAL (AM-23) is to the carriers' left and four OMAHA

class light cruisers HISN

 

[Viking1066]

B-24D 'Silver Streak' Assembly Ship REDD

 

[Viking1066]

An X-51A Waverider experimental hypersonic vehicle carried under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, 2010 BRIT

 

[SaparotRob]

An X-51A Waverider experimental hypersonic vehicle carried under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, 2010 BRIT
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My favorite Not Propellor bomber.

 

[Viking1066]

Great Lakes TG-2 Torpedo Bomber Torpedo Squadron 2 (VT-2) crewmen folding wings on board USS SARATOGA (CV-3), circa 1932. Donor comments, "it took four men to loosen the four bolts which held the wings to the fuselage" HISN

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

Martin 167 F - Groupe de Bombardement I/39 (pic : ECPA).

 

[special ed]

Great Lakes TG-2 Torpedo Bomber Torpedo Squadron 2 (VT-2) crewmen folding wings on board USS SARATOGA (CV-3), circa 1932. Donor comments, "it took four men to loosen the four bolts which held the wings to the fuselage" HISN
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With a large Hammer, and it took a pilot with two large nuts to fly it after unfolding the wings!

 

[Frog]

P-47 D ; Groupe de Chasse 1/4 " Navarre ", 1944 (pic : ECPA).

 

[Viking1066]

Vought F4U Corsair French Navy ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Koolhoven F.K.51 Netherlands AF 1938 AIRH

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

Trio of F4B-1s assigned to NAS at Naval Air Station Pensacola WBOD