Picture of the day. (97 Viewers)

[syscom3]

Royal Australian Air Force officers embarking on HMT Awatea in
Sydney, Australia on 16 October 1940 for the long trip to Vancouver,
Canada. They are bound for flight training pursuant to the Empire
Training Scheme.

 

[Zippythehog]

I like this Post war B-17 VIP transport conversion
View attachment 851882
source Civil Aviation – Page 3 – The Jive Bomber

The tail number is a palindrome. I wonder when this was taken?

 

[Zippythehog]

the Aichi E10A type 96 "Hank", which saw even more limited production with only ten being built INHG
View attachment 851999

Looks like a Walrus. Koo Koo Ka Choo

 

[Viking1066]

US Coast Guard salvage operations on US Navy PBM plane (P-81) Panama 1944 SILH

 

[Viking1066]

USAAF 42 105264 Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 10AF 80FG Burma Banshee White 1 Tegguan India 1944 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

USS Ticonderoga at Ulithi Fleet Anchorage December 8. 1944 HURW

 

[Viking1066]

USS SARATOGA circa fall of 1941. Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcats" of VF-3 "Felix the Cat" are in the foreground (one wearing the two toned gray scheme approved in October 1941) HISN

 

[Viking1066]

A-24B taxing at Makin Island December 1943 FLYT

 

[Viking1066]

B-24J Liberator 8AF 491BG853BS T8A Carousin' Cock in formation enroute to the drop zone ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Avengers warming up aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) NAAC

 

[Tom Hail]

111FS P-51 Mustangs over the USS Texas circa 1948 REDD
View attachment 844729

The P-51Ds are 111th Fighter Squadron, in 1947, celebrating the arrival of the USS TEXAS to Galveston Bay. The TEXAS had been decomissioned, and it's propellers were removed.
The tugs were used to move the ship from the east coast repair yard to TEXAS. It is about to go into a slip dug at the San Jacento Battle Ground for display.
The P-51s are in the first National Guard markings, The TO required the national insignia on the wings, but did not mention the fuslage star. At the 1948 summer camp, (the first for many Units) visiting Air Force generals had a cow, and the fusalage stair was added before the 1949 annual camp.

 

[Viking1066]

Corsair F2G-2, with an F4U-4 in the background HERF

 

[Viking1066]

TBF-1C from VC-69 aboard USS Bogue (CVE-9) May 1944 NMNA

 

[Viking1066]

The first production U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator (BuNo 0268) pictured during flight testing at Naval Air Station Anacostia, Washington D.C. (USA), in 1937 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

TBM-3Es VC-33 over the USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) REDD

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

SBD-3 Runs-up for take-off from the flight deck of USS SARATOGA (CV-3) in late 1941 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Douglas BD-2 being delivered to the USN at NAS North Island 1941 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

FB-5s from Fighting One (VF-1) and Fighting Six (VF-6) at the 1927 Spokane Air Races WABO

 

[syscom3]

October 1942. The aircraft, captained by Flying Officer David Sleep, was crippled by one of its own depth charges during
an attack on a U-boat southwest of Ireland. One of six depth charges released exploded on contact with the submarine's
casing, the blast ripping into the Liberator's tail. Sleep and his crew battled with the badly damaged flight controls for the
rest of the trip back to base but lost control on the final approach.

It is confirmed that F/O Sleep's aircraft sank U-216. Thankfully all crew members escaped with relatively minor injuries.
The worst injury sustained was Sgt Rose with his broken leg.