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	Vought-Sikorsky OS2U
		It was prepared for "flyaway to NAS Weeksville (Elizabeth City, North Carolina) for storage until such time as called for by the proposed NAM." However, in January 1949, it returned to NAS Norfolk and remained stored there until the summer of 1960.
		n October, the Navy transferred the OS2U to the NAM and it was trucked to what is now the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland.
		The Museum lent the aircraft to the USS Massachusetts Memorial at Battleship Cove, Massachusetts, in July 1968 and the Kingfisher returned to the Garber Facility in December 1980.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/kingfisher.htm (1120 words)

	OS2U Kingfisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was a catapult-launched, observation floatplane.
		The OS2U was a compact mid-wing monoplane, with a big central float and small stabilising floats.
		The OS2U served on the battleships and cruisers of the USN, as well as with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Royal Navy and the Soviet Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OS2U_Kingfisher (247 words)

	More information about the Vought OS2U KingFisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In between these two momentuous events the rugged OS2U served the fleet in numerous capacities but predominately as "eyes" for the big guns of the battleships and cruisers and for rescue work.
		On the way out the Kingfisher pilot must pass through the entire effective range of the guns on the beach- and it is this section of the action that you see in the painting.
		When the OS2U was hoisted aboard its cruiser, only one pint offuel remained in its tanks, as it carried only enough fuel for the round-trip flight to allow for the extra passenger.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /index.php?pg=577 (2043 words)

	NATIONAL MUSEUM of NAVAL AVIATION - COLLECTIONS - AIRCRAFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Known affectionately as the "Bug" and "Old Slow and Ugly", the OS2U was assigned to the fleet in 1938 as a shipboard seaplane that could serve as its eyes.
		During a carrier raid on Truk in 1944, an OS2U flying from a battleship landed in choppy seas to pickup ten pilots over a period of six hours taxiing as far as 20 miles to deliver them to a submarine.
		Standard procedure for recovering an OS2U at sea was to have the aircraft land in a smooth, slick sea created by a hard turn of the ship, taxi to a towed net/raft, have the engine shut down and be hoisted aboard.
	broadcast.illuminatedtech.com /display/story.cfm?bp=101&sid=8018 (373 words)

	Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-3 Kingfisher aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		The Vought-Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher was the US Navy's first catapult-launched monoplane observation floatplane aircraft, with a big central float and small stabilising floats.
		The OS2U was a neat, compact mid-wing monoplane, with a big central float and small stabilising floats.
		In a carrier raid on Truk in 1944, an OS2U flying from a battleship landed in choppy seas to pickup ten pilots over a period of six hours taxiing as far as 20 miles to deliver them to an allied submarine.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Kingfisher.htm (691 words)

	Vought OS2U Kingfisher - en
		The OS2U was a neat, compact mid-wing monoplane, with a big central float and small stabilising floats.
		For the USN, the OS2U was with 1519 built the most used shipboard observation aircraft, and the most popular one of WWII --- although that doesn't mean that much, the competition including failed aircraft such as the SO3C and SC.
		The OS2U not only served on the battleships and cruisers of the USN, but also with the Royal Navy and the USCG.
	www.military.cz /usa/air/war/other/os2u/os2u_en.htm (142 words)

	FS2004 Vintage Aircraft Page 19
		Furthermore, the aircraft would have to make the trip in 20 hours with at least 16 passengers (24 passengers were to be carried on shorter routes.) Two kinds of airframes and two kinds of example of painting are included in this file.
		The Vought OS2U Kingfisher, a scout and observation floatplane, began service with the Navy beginning in August 1940.
		Their primary purpose was to carry the burden of the Coast Guard's early anti-submarine efforts along the nation's coastlines and in the coastal waters.
	www.simviation.com /fs2004vintage19.htm (496 words)

	Monogram 1/48 OS2U Kingfisher (Hi Tech) by Scott Van Aken
		Comments: The OS2U Kingfisher was the US Navy's premier utility/scout floatplane of WWII.
		Charles Lindberg can thank an OS2U for picking him up when he was shot down in hostile waters during WWII.
		The Kingfisher was also operated from land bases by replacing the floats with wheels.
	modelingmadness.com /scotts/preww2/os2u.htm (1309 words)

	Kodiak Military History, VS-70
		The OS2U was designed by Rex B. Beisel of Chance Vought.
		The floats were taken off an OS2U, and the plane was equipped with its fixed land-plane wheels and a welded tailhook for the purpose of testing the land carrier.
		There was a plethora of OS2U parts, engines, wheels, floats and instruments as well as numerous machinists, radiomen and technicians.
	www.kadiak.org /vs/vs70.html (3705 words)

	USS Missouri (BB 63)
		One of the ship's OS2U Kingfisher scout planes is visible on the port catapult while the wing of the starboard one is partially visible at left.
		A green flag is risen and the starboard OS2U Kingfisher scout plane is launched during the ship's shakedown cruise.
		The pilot of an OS2U Kingfisher walks away after it is secured on the catapult.
	www.geocities.com /ziggyfoos/Missouri.html (952 words)

	ME481/581 W98 Final Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		So, the answer is that to melt Os2U, we need to form a concentration of 2e4 vacancy complexes, consisting of 2 Os vacnacies and 1 U vacancy.
		The first solid phase to form will be the Os2U, which has a composition range from 37.5 to 39 wt% U. Then there is a two phase region bordered by the Os, which has a solubility limit of about 1wt%U at this temperature.
		The reason is, that as the layer grows, the Os and U atoms must diffuse through the layer to react to form the intermetallic.
	oregonstate.edu /instruction/me481/Exams/W98/ME481W98Final.html (1595 words)

	OS2U Kingfisher
		The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was initially accepted by the US Navy in 1940.
		It served as a shipboard (battleships, etc.) observation and scout aricraft, replacing the biplanes in use prior to that.
		If you havent' worked with photoetch before, this may be a good kit to start with, if you have prior modelling experience.
	airmodeller.tripod.com /48UsaOs2u.htm (334 words)

	Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher
		The OS2U was built under the same specify of the Curtiss SO3C, but it had more success and it was the most important exploring/patrolling plane of the US Navy in the Second World War.
		It could be employed with a fixed landing gear, but it was normally equipped with the sea landing pods.
		The OS2U was designated as Kingfisher Mk I by the British.
	www.tgplanes.com /planfile.asp?idplane=95 (193 words)

	Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher
		OS2U-3; No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown; four OS2U's in line, on tarmac in front of hangar at Coast Guard Air Station Salem; from ground level (Note the JRF Goose at the end of the flight line).
		The Vought OS2U Kingfisher, a scout and observation floatplane, began service with the Navy beginning in August 1940.
		Beginning in March, 1942, the Coast Guard eventually acquired 53 of the OS2U floatplanes.
	www.uscg.mil /history/WEBAIRCRAFT/AC_Vought_OS2U.html (641 words)

	Vought OS2U Kingfisher, by Craig Swain
		At the time of Pearl Harbor, all the Navy's battleships were equipped with the OS2U.
		Additionally, the carriers Saratoga, Wasp, and Hornet as well as the seaplane tenders Albemarle, Barnegat, Biscayne, Casco, Curtiss, Heron, Humbolt, Pocomoke, Tangier, and Wright, used the type for utility work.
		Over Iwo Jima, one OS2U actually shot down a Japanese Zero fighter.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation/os2u_kingfisher.htm (809 words)

	OS2U Kingfisher Info
		A Kingfisher picked up Rickenbacker and two other crew members (who still remained following a rescue the previous day) but the Kingfisher could not take off because the load was too great.
		The OS2U pilot taxied on the surface over 40 miles to make the nearest landfall with everyone aboard.
		Type: observation aircraft Crew: 2: Pilot, observer/gunner Armament: one.30 cal forward firing machine gun one.30 cal rear firing machine gun two 100 lb.bombs, or 325 lb.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /usplanes/aircraft/kingfish.htm (172 words)

	Vought-Sikorsky and Chance Vought Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At dusk on November 12, a Kingfisher on patrol spotted the crew in a life raft and landed to rescue the four beleaguered survivors.
		Only two men could fit inside the OS2U, so the Captain Rickenbacker and the other man were lashed to the wings.
		The severely overloaded "Bug", as that aircraft was named, taxied over forty miles of rough water to land.
	ctairandspace.org /vought.html (4381 words)

	WWII Kilroy Was Here War Diary 11 AUGUST 1945
		About noon, Lt Reidy arrived with three F4Us and one F6F from Essex, and two OS2U float planes from the USS North Carolina.
		Lt (jg) Wear flying an F4U was in the process of dropping a raft when he made a very steep turn and crashed in the sea about 400 feet off shore.
		When Coumbe was within 25 feet of the plane, the pilot put one foot out on the wing and the other foot on the seat.
	www.kilroywashere.org /003-Pages/GlenWallace/45-08-11.htm (483 words)

	USN Ships--USS MISSOURI (BB-63), On Board Views, 1944-45
		With the green flag raised, the catapult crew launches a Vought OS2U floatplane, during the ship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.
		A Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane is hoisted on board after a flight, during the ship's shakedown cruise, circa August 1944.
		The pilot of a Vought OS2U floatplane unstraps his flight log from his leg, after returning from a flight.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/bb63-o4.htm (524 words)

	BATTLESHIP AVIATOR
		This site is about a naval aviator that flew the OS2U Kingfisher from the battleship USS SOUTH DAKOTA during the last year of World War II.
		During World War II Naval (or Marine Corps) Aviators flew seaplanes off of battleships and cruisers.
		Within minutes they will be re-aligned parallel to the edge of he deck.
	www.hutchbay.com /index.htm (284 words)

	Aircraft: Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher
		Bremen, IN Looking for Kevin Bonwell, husband od Beth, father of Amy, Courney, and Toby(Thomas Charles) If this is him please email me.
		Bridgewater, VA, VA I work at Bridgewater Retirement Community in Bridgewater, VA. One of our residents is Dan Geiser who flew an OS2U off the USS Alabama during the battle of the Phillipines.
		On a search mission for downed fighter pilots Dan was awarded the DFC for rescuing a pilot.
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/vought/os2u-3.htm (530 words)

	Pictures of the Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To the right and below the American flag is the fire control tower for the main battery.
		#3 Battleship New Jersey's (BB-62) three Vought OS2U Kingfisher seaplanes on the fantail on 3 September 1943.
		#4 Close up of an OS2U Kingfisher seaplane being rocovered by the Battleship New Jersey (BB-62).
	www.ussbattleshipnj.com /ussnj/photogallery.htm (855 words)

	Netwings - Slight update on the Vought OS2U Kingfisher
		The movable surface on top wing is an airbrake or a helper to maneuver on water?
		As for the "spoilers", there were used on landings to aid rolling the plane, as the OS2U could drop the ailerons as flaps to allow for slow landinf (like 55 mph).
		Maybe the first plane using spoilers?, will be cool to fly it indeed.
	www.netwings.org /dcforum/DCForumID43/1214.html (404 words)

	Aircraft of World War II. Mediterranean landbased and shipbased U.S. aircraft of World War II.
		These were all "friendlies." We look at some of them taken from Navy recognition slides.
		The seaplane above is the OS2U, manufactured by Vought Aircraft for observation use off U.S. cruisers and battleships in World War II.
		Although the SOC aircraft manufactured by Curtiss was the scout plane of choice for U.S. cruisers, in a previous page of this series, an OS2U was spotted on the catapault at the stern of the USS Philadelphia, CL-41.
	www.daileyint.com /wwii/picwar10.htm (619 words)

	More information about the Vought OS2U KingFisher
		WWII OS2U Vought Kingfisher Navy Catapult Paper Airplane
		This was one of the most functional aircaft in the Second World War.
		Incorporating some revolutionary structural techniques including spot welding, the Kingfisher was based upon the Vought company's...
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Vought-Kingfisher/kingfish.php (110 words)

	USS New York BB-34 WWII photos
		While gunnery officer he also took and collected numerous photos of life on the ship, and particularly as it was involved with SAFI, the invasion and bombardment of Africa.
		The use of the Vought OS2U Kingfisher reconnaissance plane is captured in rarely seen photographs.
		My second ship was the USS Canberra, CAG 2.
	www.edrington.com /uss_new_york.htm (430 words)

	OS2U Kingfisher - Model Airplanes, Model Ships, Model Helicopters, and Plaques - Pacific Aircraft
		OS2U Kingfisher - Model Airplanes, Model Ships, Model Helicopters, and Plaques - Pacific Aircraft
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		The OS2U Kingfisher was the most easily recognized plane of its day.
	www.warplanes.com /store/item.asp?item_id=513&department_id=34 (147 words)

	Models - Aircraft: OS2U Kingfisher in Action Book - SSP 1119
		Please enter a quantity between 1 and 99.
		This Squadron publication features developmental history and unique capabilities of the OS2U Kingfisher.
		This finely detailed and copiously illustrated book will acquaint you from every angle with the observation floatplane.
	www.ehobbies.com /ItemDetail.do?&hdnASINNO=0897472705&extid=rdrct (192 words)

	NAS Ellyson Field
		At the time war was declared, VN-2’s old Vought SU, O3Us and SBU biplanes were being replaced by the landplane version of the Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher and Vultee SNV-1/-2 Valiant, more commonly known as the “Vibrator.” The Kingfisher, used for formation training, was replaced by the SNV by fall 1942.
		At its peak, VN-2A operated almost 250 SNVs, which were used to conduct four weeks and 36 hours of familiarization, formation and night flying in single-engine monoplanes before the cadets, enlisted and officer students moved on to specialized intermediate courses in the SNJ, PBY, SNB and OS2U.
		Ellyson Field was designated an NAAS on 1 January 1943, and in 1945 Pensacola’s Intermediate Instructor School with its SNJs, N2Ss, SNVs and N3Ns moved its operations to Ellyson.
	www.tailhook.org /Ellyson.htm (1382 words)

	Answer to Navy Trivia question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		With regards to aircraft, what was the difference between a plane designated as a "F4U" and a plane designated as an "OS2U"?
		Answer: The letters "F4U" stand for Fighter planes manufactured by Vought-Sikorsky.
		The letters "OS2U" stand for Scout Observation plane manufactured by Vought-Sikorsky.
	www.goatlocker.org /ncpoa/trivia/carrier.htm (44 words)

	Airfix 1/72 Vought OS2U Kingfisher
		The Kingfisher first flew in March 1938 and entered service with the US Navy in August 1940.
		Powered by a P and W R985 redial engine, the OS2U had a span of 35’11” and a length of 33’10”.
		Airfix 1/72 Vought OS2U Kingfisher - [Paul Wherran]
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/usaaf/kingfisher_rs.htm (688 words)

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