11 Apr 22:
The US Navy developed the Navy Curtiss (NC) flying boat in the 1919 timeframe, in addition to spotting enemy submarines they figured out the could drop some ordnance on them as well. Here's a little greeting loaded onto NC-8. We love this photo, the Chief posing casually by the bomb while the junior sailor is looking at him and thinking "WTH are doing to that bomb?!"
Wouldn't one of those look good strapped to GANNET, to deal with stinkpots? 12 NCs were built, with NC-4 being the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic, hopscotching up the East Coast, Nova Scotia, Azores, the Spain, France and England.
Truth be told, maybe they were just going to get some Laphroaig.
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