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[Lucky13]

So you were there when Keith Richards was taking a video of the event ?

He did!?
The old b*stard told me that he didn't!

 

[Viking1066]

Curtiss BF2C-1 shown here from squadron VB-5B on 18 March 1935 HERF

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus MkI FAA L2317 HMS Southampton North Atlantic 1939 ASBIZ

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Walrus MkI FAA SEAC camouflage HMS Khedive May 1945 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

USS Langley (CV-1) in the Panama Canal, 16 November 1924 NAVS

 

[Viking1066]

Dutch Brewsters at Kallang. On the fuselage the units emblem, a Javan Rhinoceros STUR

 

[syscom3]

A soldier guards Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 (Werke/Nr.3576) of 7 Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 54, which belly landed on
a beach near Lydd water tower in Kent on 27 October 1940. The aircraft was damaged in combat with Hurricanes
of No. 605 Squadron during a fighter sweep over Tunbridge Wells. The pilot, Unteroffizier Arno Zimmermann, was
captured.

 

[syscom3]

North American Aviation's prototype fighter, NA-73X, NX19998, at Mines Field, Los Angeles, California.

 

[syscom3]

I have never heard of this. An XSB2C-2 Helldiver fitted with floats, 29 September 1942

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman J-2F 'Duck' FBAS

 

[Warspite63]

North American Aviation's prototype fighter, NA-73X, NX19998, at Mines Field, Los Angeles, California.

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Beautiful. 'Nuff said

 

[Warspite63]

I have never heard of this. An XSB2C-2 Helldiver fitted with floats, 29 September 1942

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What a sleek, elegant greyhound of the air! Oh wait, I was actually looking at the P-51 prototype pic above....
This needs some more struts .. and maybe some more wings.... ;-P

 

[SaparotRob]

What a sleek, elegant greyhound of the air! Oh wait, I was actually looking at the P-51 prototype pic above....
This needs some more struts .. and maybe some more wings.... ;-P

Blackburn School of Design?

 

[cammerjeff]

Source Defending the Superbomber: The B-29's Central Fire Control System

 

[Viking1066]

A Fairey Albacore I BF759 4L of 820 Squadron in flight, during the North African landings Nov 1942 DEST

 

[Viking1066]

Supermarine Walrus I, serial number K5783, from the first production batch 1938. The aircraft served with the Royal New Zealand Navy cruisers HMNZS Achilles and HMNZS Leander WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Aircraft flying off from HMS Formidable November 1943 DEST

 

[Viking1066]

SBD-3 Dauntless on the USS Yorktown late morning 4th June 1942 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Fairey Albacores on a training flight off Mombasa 25 May 1942 DEST