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[Count de Bastrop]

B-18 Bolo bomber port wing with low-drag experimental panel, Langley Field, Virginia, 1 January 1941; note P-43 Lancer fighter in background.

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Not to be pedantic, but I believe that's the XP-41, not a P-43 (though its an easy mistake to make).

 

[Viking1066]

B-18 formation during exercises over Hawaii, 1940–1941 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

A flight deck crewman attaches a ground wire to prevent static discharge while refueling. The large yellow numbers indicate a training aircraft INHG

 

[Viking1066]

VB-3 "High Hats" (now the VFA-14 Tophatters) became the first squadron to accept delivery of the SB2U Vindicator #OTD in 1937 FACB

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the net.

 

[Viking1066]

One of four SM.79s used by Lebanon after the war AIRH

 

[Viking1066]

The first two S-43s of Inter Island Airways and three older S-38s, the nearest of which is NC4V Molokai AIRH

 

[syscom3]

Fleet Air Arm pilots and observers, 2 January 1941, onboard HMS Victorious at Scapa Flow. Left to
right, Sub Lieutenant (A) A Mc D Garland, a fighter pilot attached to 809 Squadron; Sub Lieutenant
(A) F Rabone, an Observer in a Fairey Albacore; Sub Lieutenant (A) W H G Browne, an Observer
attached to 832 Squadron.

 

[Viking1066]

B-24 of the 491st BG Assembly Ship TUBARAQ REDD

 

[GTX]

The founding members of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Valentine Baker and James Martin posing with financier Francis Francis beside the MB.2 in 1939.

 

[SaparotRob]

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the pic source: the net.

Awww. You went and gift wrapped it for me!

 

[Viking1066]

Brewster Buffalo F2A 1 in McClelland Barclay camouflage design Sep 2nd 1940 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Carrier aircraft fly over NAS San Diego 1932 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

BuNo 1813 in flight from NRAB Floyd Bennett Field. This was one of 50 SBC-4s urgently sold to France in June 1940 AIRH

 

[Warspite63]

Brewster Buffalo F2A 1 in McClelland Barclay camouflage design Sep 2nd 1940 ASBIZ
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'Does this paint job make my butt look big?'
'Yes'

 

[Greg Boeser]

'Does this paint job make my butt look big?'
'Yes'

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

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

WASP members on the flight line at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, January 22, 1944 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

USS Lexington (CV 2), pictured here in the Hawaiian Islands during fleet maneuvers in 1932 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Twelve F4B-4 fighters assigned to VF-9M demonstrate close formation flying over MCAS Quantico 1934 FACB