Lex Anteinternet: Monday January 3, 1944. The Turner Explosion.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday January 3, 1944. The Turner Explosion.: 

Monday January 3, 1944. The Turner Explosion.

George C. Marshall was Time's Man Of The Year.

The USS Turner suffered a series of internal explosions while in harbor off of the Ambrose Light in New York.  138 of the 256-man crew died during the incident.  A Coast Guard Sikorsky HNS-1 flown by Lieutenant Commander Frank A. Erickson flew two cases of blood plasma, lashed to the helicopter's floats, from New York to Sandy Hook, saving many of the injured crewman, and providing the first incident of a helicopter used in that fashion.

Commander Frank A. Erickson, USCG and Dr. Igor Sikorsky, Sikorsky Helicopter HNS-1.  The HNS-1 had been in service for slightly under a year at this time.

Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was shot down and became a Prisoner of War of the Japanese.

Interior of the Boeing 777.

 

Seminoe and Kortes Reservoirs from the air.

 

Lighting things up.

C.P. Search under starboard wing of Martin PBM-3C Mariner from Air Sub Dev, Lant, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.  December 19, 1943.

Alaska Airlines seeks to acquire Hawaiian Airlines.

For the sum of $1,000,000,000.

It is uncertain if the Biden Administration shall approve the deal.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, November 13, 1943. XP-80 completed.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, November 13, 1943. Coconut Grove.:

Saturday, November 13, 1943. Coconut Grove.

The first XP-80 was completed.

Lulu Belle, the first XP-80.

The Kelly Johnson design would go into service in 1945, too late for the Second World War, but would see service in Korea, by which time it was already eclipsed by later designs.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 10, 1943. Heroes and martyrs.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 10, 1943. Heroes and martyrs.: 

Crash-landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, November 10, 1943.  Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., the catapult officer of the USS Enterprise, is seen leaping up on the burning blame to rescue the pilot, Ensign Bryon M. Johnson.  Johnson would receive hardly any injury.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, November 2, 1923. Air Speed Record

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, November 2, 1923. A person of interest.:

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Harlold J. Brow set a new flight airspeed record of 250 mph, making him the first person to fly faster than 400 kph.  His plane was a Curtis racer.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, October 27, 1943. First flight of the RB-1.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, October 27, 1943. Navy Day.: 

Wednesday, October 27, 1943. Navy Day.

The first stainless steel airplane, the RB-1 Conestoga, made its first flight.

Only twenty were made.

Argentine Col. Juan Perón agreed  to direct the nation's Department of Labor.

Helicopter lifting linemen.

You have to look carefully to see them, but this helicopter (I don't know the model) is lifting two linemen to check the power line in the photograph.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, Sepember 22, 1923. The ZR-1 over Washington, D.C.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, Sepember 22, 1923. Henning Hotel Robbed.: 

Saturday, Sepember 22, 1923. Henning Hotel Robbed.

The Navy's ZR-1 dirigible flew over Washington, D. C.