Viking's Aircraft Pictures

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Was looking over some of your older pictures in this thread David and came across the shot of the Lexington when it was helping to power Tacoma Washington. The Si-Fi Author Robert A Heinlein was a young Lt. on board her at the time and the it is mentioned in a recent biography of him. Amazing that the Lex had the power to do that.
 
That is pretty cool! I have always loved the Lexington and was ecstatic when I came across that pic and always loved her with the 8" guns.

Today at the NARA I copied these 2 pics of the B-15. The first one is of the plane just before it was flown to Chile with supplies. Chili had been struck by a fairly nasty earthquake on Feb of 1939. The 2nd shows the engine nacelle hatch with one of the flight engineers popping out.



 
In 2012 Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La was published and told the story of a cargo plane that crashed in New Guinea during WW2 (really excellent read) killing 21 of the 24 people aboard and the incredible rescue of the 3 survivors that utilized a glider snatched from the ground by a C-47. I have acquired an original picture of the glider sitting in the valley before it was used.


During July 1934 Hap Arnold was leading a flight of 10 x Martin B-10 bombers on what was called the Alaskan Flight from. This over shadowed a flight the USN was also making to Alaska leaving San Diego at the same time.


..and lastly a picture of the USS Lexington still sporting the 8 x 8" guns taking in 1929.
 
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