Hmm! what could this be? ...

[Mark Allen M]

Answer in a few minutes ...

[PropsRule]

From what I could see it was a 7.62 minigun on a Sea King. On that guess, I googled that up and lo and behold, the TAT-102 minigun. Apparently "TAT" stands for "Tactical Armament Turret". It seems these were used on CH-53s as well.

That's a great detailed photo. Never knew Sea Kings could carry such a thing.

[Mark Allen M]

Nice job! Correct indeed
Apparently they were proven not to be too useful. Too difficult to aim etc.


prototype HH-3A Sea King


prototype HH-3A Sea King

[Malo83]

Used by HC-7 on their SeaKings on Combat SAR missions in Viet Nam, but not for long as Mark stated.
http://www.hc7seadevils.org/new/index2.html

[Mark Allen M]

This? ...

[Chris Brame]

Prototype B-25 tail gun?

(Image from olive-drab.com)
Also notice how the plane behind it seems to have already had its wing dihedral changed. I wonder if Miss Hap (B-25 40-2168) would have had that tail gun setup originally?

[Mark Allen M]

B-25A Chris, good call.


North American B-25A-NA (SN 40-2212) of the 17th Bomb Group, 34th Bomb Squadron, McChord AAF, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo)


North American B-25A in flight (US Air Force photo)

[Mark Allen M]

Carrier based with twin engines ...

[CWBuff]

AJ Savage (which actually had three engines... )


Fade to Black...

[Mark Allen M]

Bingo! Correct you are.


AJ-1 On April 21 1950 Captain John T Hayward made the first carrier launch of a Savage heavy attack aircraft from the carrier USS Coral Sea


AJ-1 On April 21 1950 Captain John T Hayward made the first carrier launch of a Savage heavy attack aircraft from the carrier USS Coral Sea

[Mark Allen M]

Hmm!

[PropsRule]

Could that simply be a Tiger Moth on floats?

[Mark Allen M]

Correct! and one of the neatest airplanes ever IMO


DeHavilland DH82A-Tiger-Moth

[Mark Allen M]

Too easy for you guys as I knew it would. Lets see if someone can figure this machine way up in the upper right ...



and these two as well.


Douglas BT-1's with Bombing Squadron Five VB-5


Ford Island, Pearl Harbor

[dbrown]

Middle looks like a B-18 BOLO

Bottom looks like a wing folded TBD-1 Devastator