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[MIflyer]

USMC F-14F-2 crashed into the Pacific on 20 Aug 1940 during carrier landing training. Pilot survived and the airplane was recovered decades later.

 

[MIflyer]

Restored and on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum

 

[SaparotRob]

USMC F4F-2 crashed into the Pacific on 20 Aug 1940 during carrier landing training. Pilot survived and the airplane was recovered decades later.

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Correct the caption lest you be taunted.

 

[MIflyer]

Correct the caption lest you be taunted.

There! Is that better?

 

[SaparotRob]

There now, that wasn't hard, was it?

 

[MIflyer]

There now, that wasn't hard, was it?

Not at all! By the way, that was the aircraft used in the original Top Gun movie.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Viking1066]

US Navy Vought F4U-I Goodyear factory 1943 BLOO

 

[Viking1066]

Wheeled variant of the OS2N-1 Kingfisher (contract versions of the Vought OS2U-3) at rest at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia 1942 WW2B

 

[Viking1066]

WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mates working on a SNJ training plane and its Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine, NAS Jacksonville July 1943 WW2B

 

[cammerjeff]

Wheeled variant of the OS2N-1 Kingfisher (contract versions of the Vought OS2U-3) at rest at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia 1942 WW2B
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Nice shot, it looks like there may be a rare Brewster SBN Scout Bomber in the background. They only made around 30 of them

 

[syscom3]

USMC F-14F-2 crashed into the Pacific on 20 Aug 1940 during carrier landing training. Pilot survived and the airplane was recovered decades later.

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F14?

 

[syscom3]

RAF B-17 Fortress (Model 299) Mark I, AN529, on the ground at Ayr/Heathfield, Ayrshire, Scotland,
shortly after arriving from the United States. AN529 later joined No. 90 Squadron RAF and later flew
in Libya. She was written off after a forced landing near Fort Maddalena, Libya, on 8 November 1941.

 

[MIflyer]

F14?

Inside joke between me and Saparotrob. Very inside, more of a Tornado Shelter joke, actually.

 

[Zippythehog]

Walrus MkI Royal Navy W2743-HMS Pegasus Lamlash Scotland ASBIZ
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Ku-ku-ka-choo

 

[MiTasol]

F14?

Probably. This is one of the digital manuals in my collection. From the Polish Air Force Museum at Krakow.

 

[SaparotRob]

F14?

If ya' know, ya' know.

 

[Viking1066]

Supermarine Seafire Mk.II HMS Formidable Dec 1942 DEST

 

[Viking1066]

USMC N3N-3 Canary glider-towing biplane (Bureau Number 1777) at Page Field Parris Island 1942 WW2B

 

[Viking1066]

Vought OS2U-2 Kingfisher in flight Jan-May 1942 WW2B