And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
According to Wikipedia: "Only one known survivor exists today: SB2U-2 Vindicator, Bureau Number 1383, is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, Florida."
Enjoy excellent Technicolor aerial photography of the Vought Vindicator in the 1941 film Dive Bomber, along with also superb photography of other USN aircraft of that period.
nickname: wind indicator. there is no way to open the canopy from the outside while in flight. if the pilot elects to vacate the premises he can't help the guys in back out. George Bush jumped out of a similar PBM in WWII. the inevitable critics called him a coward because he did not get the crew out. they either did not know, but judged him anyways, or they knew, and kept that fact to themselves.
Higly doubt it.
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ReplyDeleteLooks like a Vought SB2U Vindicator. One of the first Navy monoplane attack aircraft.
According to Wikipedia:
ReplyDelete"Only one known survivor exists today:
SB2U-2 Vindicator, Bureau Number 1383, is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, Florida."
Enjoy excellent Technicolor aerial photography of the Vought Vindicator in the 1941 film Dive Bomber, along with also superb photography of other USN aircraft of that period.
ReplyDeleteNot sexy enough. Sank some enemy shipping though.
ReplyDeleteThey weren't all that airworthy to begin with anyway. The Vindicator was widely viewed as underpowered and highly vulnerable to AA.
ReplyDeleteDoes that 18' long cockpit have a bathroom in it?
ReplyDeleteIn Colorado Springs there is a WW-2 Air Museum that every plane displayed is capable of flying...and most are taken out and flown often.
ReplyDeletenickname: wind indicator. there is no way to open the canopy from the outside while in flight. if the pilot elects to vacate the premises he can't help the guys in back out. George Bush jumped out of a similar PBM in WWII. the inevitable critics called him a coward because he did not get the crew out. they either did not know, but judged him anyways, or they knew, and kept that fact to themselves.
ReplyDeleteGHWB was a TBM Avenger pilot, not a PBM.
DeleteMadras, Oregon: Erickson Aircraft Museum. I flew in an open cockpit Steerman. What a ride!!!
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