Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Float Plane, WWII style


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  1. I wouldn't want to fly that crate around anywhere that the Imperial Japanese Navy was flying a fighter sweep.

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  2. That was a spotter plane used to identify the fall of shot for the big battleship guns. The battleship would use dye markers in the salvo, and the aircraft would "spot" where they landed. Both the RTO and the pilot were trained FO's. They launched from the steam catapault on the stern of almost every large US warship built between 1917 and 1950. The last ones went out of service in the 1950's That is the grossly underpowered Chance Vought OV-2 "Kingfisher". ---Ray

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  3. I'll bet there were some pucker strings working when trying to recover back aboard the ship in heavy seas!

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