Today we present an atmospheric view showing a TBF-1C Avenger of VT-51 over Majuro Atoll on May 30th, 1944. VT-51 was at the time flying from the USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) and counted among its roster a certain Lt.(JG) George H.W. Bush.
Today we either begin or continue a series we like to call 'Now there's sumthin' you don't see every day'.
The image below is from the 2026 La Ferté-Alais Air Show, called Le Temps des Hélices, held at the Cerny airfield in France during the last weekend of May. This year's show marked the public debut of a newly restored Caudron C.430 Rafale, and whut-yer-seein' here is a French 'heritage flight' performed by this little ship and a Dassault Rafale operated by Escadron de Transformation Rafale 3/4 'Aquitaine' (ETR 3/4), the French Air and Space Force's conversion unit for the type.
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