Today on
Hyperscale there is a nicely done Tamiya Skyraider in Royal Canadian Navy markings. It is a what if, but Canada did have a Skyraider. Well not really, but one landed on the HMCS Magnificent on September 23, 1953 because of fog. It was AD-4B BuNo 132354 from the USS Bennington and flown by James Elster. In good Canadian tradition we added a maple leaf and made him carry a moose back to the USS Bennington.
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Hey, cut him off with that Sea Fury...then we'll finally have a real bomber in this Navy!
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That's a Canadian now, eh. Maggie must be the name of the moose. (Or maybe the carrier...)
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Look at all those Avengers! (Photos courtesy of the Canada Department of National Defence/Library and Archives of Canada.)
2 comments:
Just frikkin' awesome. They shoudl have kept it, and kept the carrier to fly it off of.
I'm enjoying the increased frequency of posts, Jim.
-Jeff
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