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Bantam BRC picture
One of the joys of digging for early and pre-war photos is that one often finds pictures of scenes that were unlikely to ever be repeated again. Here is a Feb. 1941 picture of pre-war Army manoevers at Ft. Benning with a long line of "...the Army's new four wheel-drive midget cars".
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Very cool
Neat picture, but now I have to figure out what that plane is. A Fairchild of some kind? Very Fieseler Storch-ish. Did not know U.S. Army had aircraft like that at the time. Time to get a-Googling
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Ryan O51 Dragonfly
I believe it's a Ryan O51 Dragonfly, my friend. Derek.
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Indeed
Looks like that would be the one. I was searching the Net, found lists of early O and L aircraft in U.S. Army, including the Ryan, but hadn't found any pix. Most of the references ended up leading me to the "Grasshoppers," the Pipers, Stinsons and Taylors that became the standard sorts of planes used for liaison and spotting work in WWII. Now that I know what to look for, I find only three YO-51 prototypes were built, which accounts for its obscurity. Thanks for the ID.
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Whlie searching some Pathe films I came across this very same shot showing the plane flying over the BRC.
Enjoy the film.
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