Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (22 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Type 10 fighters and type 14 torpedo bombers on Akagi's flight deck 1929 1st Carrier Division (Dai Koko Sentai) with Kaga in the background (somewhere I don't see it) MARS

 

[SaparotRob]

Type 10 fighters and type 14 torpedo bombers on Akagi's flight deck 1929 1st Carrier Division (Dai Koko Sentai) with Kaga in the background (somewhere I don't see it) MARS
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Nice view of the elevator. We've all seen the shots of the Kido Butai with either Kaga or Akagi, bows on, with the elevator in this position. For years I wondered what that thing was. A Admiral Beez posted a shot and/or mentioned what it was a while back clearing up the mystery for me.

 

[Viking1066]

Type 97 mounted attack aircraft preparing for takeoff in order to attack the advancing Soviet forces in the battle of Oshumi Island 1945 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

In August 1927 Imperial Theatre actresses visited the installations of "Nippon Hiko Gakko" in Tachikawa. They were members of the 6th graduating class and each of them thoroughly enjoyed a 10-minute flight with the Avro 504K of the school FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Instructor and his trainees stand in front of a Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate at Nakatsu AF 1944 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Japanese fleet preparing a counter attack to allied invasion of the Attu Islands. The Japanese battleship Musashi is most prominently seen, with the aircraft carrier Shokaku behind
her 1943 WIKI

3 WIKI

 

[CATCH 22]

In August 1927 Imperial Theatre actresses visited the installations of "Nippon Hiko Gakko" in Tachikawa. They were members of the 6th graduating class and each of them thoroughly enjoyed a 10-minute flight with the Avro 504K of the school FACB
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I wonder how did the "geishas" enter the plane, wrapped in the kimonos? Did they show some skin beneath?

 

[cammerjeff]

Avia BH-33. In Polish service
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[cammerjeff]

NC.150 Prototype

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[cammerjeff]

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[Frog]

 

[Viking1066]

Japanese Nakajima B5N1 (Type 97 Kankō, Carrier Attack Bomber) from the aircraft carrier Ryūjō flies over the U.S. Navy seaplane tender USS William B. Preston (AVD-7) in Malalag Bay, Mindanao 1942 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Kawanishi H6K type 97 prepares to depart Kwajalein Atoll REDD

 

[Greg Boeser]

Kawanishi H6K type 97 prepares to depart Kwajalein Atoll REDD
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Got a date?. H6Ks from Kwajalein bombed Wake Island several times in December 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

Got a date?. H6Ks from Kwajalein bombed Wake Island several times in December 1941.

It didn't give a date.

 

[Viking1066]

Kawanishi E7K2 on IJNS Mizuho during operations off China USNA

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki 21-I Hamamatsu Army Flying School ASBIZ

 

[Greg Boeser]

Kawanishi E7K2 on IJNS Mizuho during operations off China USNA
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The local shop has a couple kits of this. One with catapult.

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus Mark I X9506 "C-Flight", No 293 Sqn RAF, Nettuno, Italy NAVA

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi I-1a missle under test at Fussa on a modified Ki-67-I Hiryu "Mother" early 1945 MANNO