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[Viking1066]

N3N and N2S aircraft at NAS Corpus Christi 1943 WW2B

 

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North American O-47A Air Force Material Division 1941 AIRH

 

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Northrop P-61A "Nightie Mission" 6th Night Fighter Squadron Saipan 1944 BLOO

 

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OS2U Kingfisher floatplane preparing to be launched aboard USS Alabama, circa Jan 1943 WW2B

 

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British Royal Air Force Vickers Wellesley light bomber kicking up a dust cloud during a take off from an East African airstrip, 15 May 1941.

 

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Gloster-Whittle G.40 E28/39 on its first flight, 15 May 1941.

 

[Viking1066]

1942 promotional photograph by the Grumman company showing the advantages of its "sto-wing" technology FACB

 

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Assembly line Grumman Wildcats and other various types ASBIZ

 

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1930's Fleet Problem Exercises FACB

 

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An early Consolidated B-24 Liberator that arrives in the UK on 16 May 1941. This plane is slotted to
be used for crew training in RAF No. 120 Squadron Coastal Command.

 

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An early Consolidated B-24 Liberator that arrives in the UK on 16 May 1941. This plane is slotted to
be used for crew training in RAF No. 120 Squadron Coastal Command.

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Round engine cowlings reveal a non-turbocharged airplane.

 

[Greg Boeser]

LB-30

 

[cammerjeff]

To keep the LB-30/B-24 theme going, 84 years ago (yesterday) the first B-24 to come of the Willowrun Assembly line B-24E-1-FO Liberator 42-7770 runs up an engine at the end of the line. Ypsilanti MI, about 5 miles from my house. This is actually the only section of the plant still standing, now used as the restoration shop for the Yankee Air Museum.

source 15 | May | 2026 | This Day in Aviation

 

[Viking1066]

Several Kingfishers are spotted on the deck of the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5) INHG

 

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SB2U-2s of VS-72 share the flight deck with F4F-3Wildcat fighters of VF-72 ni early 1942 NATA

 

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Lockheed P-38F Burbank July 1942 BLOO

 

[syscom3]

Round engine cowlings reveal a non-turbocharged airplane.

If its mission is for ASW activities, there is no need for the turbos.

 

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Six Blenheim Mark IVFs of No. 254 Squadron RAF, flying in formation over Northern Ireland shortly
after the unit's arrival at Aldergrove, County Antrim, May 1941.

 

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A Messerschmitt Bf 110D in British markings in North Africa. This aircraft served with II/ZG76 in Iraq
and was captured after crash-landing near Mosul on 17 May 1941. The RAF named it "The Belle of
Berlin" and used it as a communications aircraft and later as a unit 'hack' in RAF No.267 Squadron.

 

[Bretoal2]

If its mission is for ASW activities, there is no need for the turbos.

Yes… especially when the government of the country manufacturing the turbochargers has banned their export!