• Biplane flies over water. The photo is taken from right in from of it while it is banked upwards.
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     Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighter, with its landing gear removed for airship operations, maneuvers near USS Macon (ZRS-5), while being filmed by Fox Movietone News cameras on October 12, 1934. The plane's pilot was Lt. (j.g.) Frederick N. Kivette, USN. Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book The Airships Akron & Macon, 1974. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. NH 84571.)

  • Biplane flies over water. The photo is taken from right in from of it while it is banked upwards.

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