Picture of the day. (13 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Shot of an SBD on an atoll "somewhere in the Pacific" INHG

 

[cammerjeff]

SBD-5?

 

[syscom3]

Ground crew checking up before an American-built Glen Martin medium bomber takes off on a raid, Egypt, January 4, 1941.

 

[Warspite63]

There is no way you can answer that question without starting a fight.

I will apologise ... if you acknowledge the indisputable, obvious truth: the most beautiful aircraft that has ever existed (or ever will exist...) is the DeHavilland Mosquito So there

 

[SaparotRob]

I titter inappropriately at your aesthetic confusement.

 

[Lucky13]

I will apologise ... if you acknowledge the indisputable, obvious truth: the most beautiful aircraft that has ever existed (or ever will exist...) is the DeHavilland Mosquito So there

She is a rather nice piece of wood....

 

[special ed]

Wot? Balsa in a plastic forum?

 

[Viking1066]

SBD-5s in flight over the Pacific 1944 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Row upon row of F4F Wildcat fuselages pictured in Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation's Plant Two at Bethpage, Long Island, New York 1941 FACB

 

[Zippythehog]

I will apologise ... if you acknowledge the indisputable, obvious truth: the most beautiful aircraft that has ever existed (or ever will exist...) is the DeHavilland Mosquito So there

Oh, Mossie's in the running. But against Spitfire, Beech Staggerwing, SR-71, Concorde, Falcon 10, Globe Swift, Mooney M20E, B-25, P-38, A6M3-22a, Hatz, Marquart Charger, Waco UPF, DeHaviland Vampire, and Rapide, any GB racer, Rare Bear, Beechcraft Starship, and F-86 Saber. IMHO.

 

[MiTasol]

Shot of an SBD on an atoll "somewhere in the Pacific" INHG
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With primitive YAGI antenna

 

[MiTasol]

She is a rather nice piece of wood....

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But the Hornet is better.

 

[Warspite63]

Oh, Mossie's in the running. But against Spitfire, Beech Staggerwing, SR-71, Concorde, Falcon 10, Globe Swift, Mooney M20E, B-25, P-38, A6M3-22a, Hatz, Marquart Charger, Waco UPF, DeHaviland Vampire, and Rapide, any GB racer, Rare Bear, Beechcraft Starship, and F-86 Saber. IMHO.

'In the running'? 'IN THE RUNNING?!?!?!?!? Words fail me (which will probably make everyone here quite happy, tbh ........)

I'm off to pout .........

 

[Warspite63]

She is a rather nice piece of wood....

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We need a 'Bacon to the power of bacon' emoji.......

 

[Viking1066]

Side view of the Dauntlesses from a stateside training INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Shirley Slade WASP 1943-1945 During her service with the WASPs, Shirley was stationed at three key bases-Love Field in Dallas, Texas; Dodge City Army Air Base in Kansas; and Harlingen Army Air Field in Texas

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga photographed from the HMS Victorious SAFO

 

[syscom3]

An Australian Gloster "Gladiator" fighter patrol returns to its desert base after a mission over the fighting line before Bardia, Libya, January 5, 1941, which fell to British force.

 

[Viking1066]

ATA pilot Joy Lofthouse UNSU

 

[Viking1066]

Jean Landis posing with mystery aircraft in the 1940s UNSU