Airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) after landing on board the carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) - 28 January 1928 - Saratoga was the longest warship in the world from her launch in 1925 until the launch of the USS Midway in 1945 [1439 x 1123]

Brody wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 12:11 am ..

I can't tell if that is just lucky or some serious pilot skill. If he mucked up the barrel roll at low altitude, what a tit - buuut .. if it rolled due to malfunction, he's bounced it off the runway back up into the sky, taken it over a river, ejected & dumped it - what a cracking piece of piloting..!

2-seat trainer.
Sadly, one of the crew later died in hospital, according to reports. It’s not clear in the videos that I’ve seen, whether the second ejection worked, or if it was just too low altitude/bad attitude for a safe ejection.

A U-boat, a helicopter and a zepellin walk into a bar ...



1945; U-858 after surrender being taken over by US Navy crew with a Sikorsky HNS-I (first US military helicopter).