XB-29’s first Flight
#otd on September 21st. 1942 the XB-29 made its first flight. Check out the clean lines on her. Anyone notice anything different from...
USS Lexington CV-2 (1936)
#otd USS Lexington CV-2 at Long Beach, California, 17 September 1936. #usslexington #cv2 #flynavy #aviationsafari #aviationpreservation...
Tigercat
#otd Grumman F7F-2D 80340 Patuxent River, Maryland, 16 September 1948 during testing. #f7f #tigercat #grumman #flynavy #aviationsafari...
Tarawa-Makin Raid
#otd Tarawa-Makin Raid, September 1943. Douglas SBD-5’s of VB-16 on USS Lexington's CV-16 flight deck after returning from raids on...
USS Albany CA-123 (1951)
#otd Check out the guns aboard USS Albany CA-123 passing the Rock of Gibraltar en route to join the Sixth Fleet, 13 September 1951....
USS Enterprise CV-6 (1945)
#otd USS Enterprise CV-6 in Puget Sound, Washington, 13 September 1945. Note the AA mounts at the round down. #ussenterprise #cv6 #wwii...
Francis Scott Key
#otd The Bombardment of Fort McHenry, 12-13 September 1814. Where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the bombardment...
OTD in 1920
#otd a Curtiss R-6L floatplane drops a fin-less torpedo in tests at San Diego Bay, 13 September 1920. #biplane #torpedo #flynavy...
Pappy Boyington
#otd VMF-214 Commanding Officer, Major Gregory Boyington, gives pre-flight instructions to his pilots, at Turtle Bay Fighter Strip,...
Orion the Hunter
#otd P-3B 151170 of VP-17 keeping an eye on a Kynda Class Soviet Cruiser off Hawaii, 11 September 1974. #p3 #p3b #p3orion #orionthehunter...
