Picture of the day.

[Viking1066]

B-17F Fortress 8AF 388BG560BS Tiger Girl at Honington ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

B-24H Liberator 8AF 458BG754BS Z5Z Spotted Ass Ape assembly aircraft hearding the group ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

B-24J Liberator 8AF 458BG753BS J4V SOL with lead ship Z5S and 352FG P-51 Mustang escorts ASBIZ

 

[bf109xxl]

Always jealous of the USN, the Army decided it needed its own carriers. Take-off was rather challenging ... landing-on was more so...... P-38 pilots were not impressed......

The Army decided it needed a seaplane with a removable float of simplified design. But engine power was overestimated.

 

[Elvis]

Remember when you were kids and you and your buddy would lash your rowboats together, then lash some plywood to the top, so you had a "bass boat"...yeah, like that. =)
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[Zippythehog]

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It took concentration, determination, and skill to land on that pontoon boat.

 

[Viking1066]

Boeing Y1B-9A and P-26 in flight 1930 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

BF2C-1 Goshawk BuNo 9586, 13 September 1934 FLIK

 

[Lancero99]

A 55th Sentai Kawasaki Ki-61-I Tei having its guns aligned at Komaki Airfield

 

[GTX]

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Turn around guys...I need to be heading into the wind to take off

 

[GTX]

Boeing Y1B-9A and P-26 in flight 1930 WIKI
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I wish there was a model kit of the Boeing Y1B-9A available...more recently than the kit from 1934 (I'm not kidding).

 

[Greg Boeser]

Turn around guys...I need to be heading into the wind to take off

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[SaparotRob]

I wish there was a model kit of the Boeing Y1B-9A available...more recently than the kit from 1934 (I'm not kidding).

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga is shown landing T4M torpedo bombers while others are parked at her bow 1930's HERF

 

[Viking1066]

USS Long Island (AVG-1) View on the hangar deck, looking aft over the elevator pit, 28 March 1942. Three Vought SB2U scout bombers are present, embarked for carrier qualifications LASS

 

[special ed]

USS Saratoga is shown landing T4M torpedo bombers while others are parked at her bow 1930's HERF
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Note waveoff at right edge

 

[MIflyer]

From Flight Journal

 

[MIflyer]

Also from Flight Journal

 

[MiTasol]

Somewhere around I have a letter from Peter McDermott explaining why that was Brooklyn Bum 2nd, that happened to the first BB and assorted other items of trivia. When I find it I will post it.