Picture of the day. (74 Viewers)

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

VS-2 SBC-4 Helldivers at NAS San Diego 19 August 1939. BuNo 1288, 2-S-1, in the foreground FLIK

 

[Viking1066]

Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator of VS-72 being brought aboard USS Wasp (CV-7) REDD

 

[Viking1066]

USS Thetis Bay in 1944 with a PBY Catalina, Grumman F6F and a Grumman J2F biplane REDD

 

[SaparotRob]

View attachment 838561

RAAF Beauforts await destruction and salvage in 1946 at RAAF Station Forest Hill, now RAAF Base Wagga.

 

[syscom3]

The American Clipper is shown at Treasure Island at the start of its 8,000-mile flight to Auckland, New Zealand, inaugurating commercial air service to the South Pacific on July 12, 1940.

 

[syscom3]

Pan Am airmail pilots on the Auckland, New Zealand route, 12 July 1940. Pan Am is awarded the
prestigious route FAM-19 ("FAM" an acronym for Foreign Air Mail) to Auckland from Hawaii today.
Typically, they fly a Boeing 314.

 

[Viking1066]

USS Lexington leaving San Diego, California, 14 October 1941 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Boeing F3B-1 fighter takes off as other F3B-1's wait, circa 1929-1930. Note SARATOGA's catapult HISN

 

[Viking1066]

ff-1 HISN

 

[syscom3]

Viking1066, can you move those three pictures to the cold war aircraft thread? Thanks!

 

[syscom3]

A B-26 of the 22nd Bomb Group after a nose wheel failure at Antil Plains Airfield, Australia, 18 July 1942

 

[Viking1066]

Martin T4M with a torpedo attached aboard USS LEXINGTON (CV-2), 4 April 1929 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

Ranger (CV-4) at Norfolk Naval base, Virginia, on 7 June 1934. Photographed from a USAAC plane HISN

 

[GTX]

USS Lexington leaving San Diego, California, 14 October 1941 HISN
View attachment 838632

Damn, that's one hell of an Island (and more)

 

[GTX]

USS Lexington (CV-2) (top), USS Saratoga (CV-3) (middle), and USS Langley (CV-1) (bottom) moored at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington (USA), in 1929.

 

[Viking1066]

Viking1066, can you move those three pictures to the cold war aircraft thread? Thanks!

done.

 

[Viking1066]

B-10's on the airfield of Kendari, Celebes STUR

 

[Viking1066]

Formation take-off by Dutch Do-24s on Darwin harbour during a visit to Australia circa 1940 GOOD

 

[Viking1066]

At Surabaya Naval base the older planes like the Fokker T.IVa used by the flightschool are made ready for warwork again. With the recent surge in enemy submarine attacks on shipping in the Java Sea these planes are made ready for operations STUR