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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84571

Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter
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with its landing gear removed for airship operations

Maneuvers near USS Macon (ZRS-5), while being filmed by Fox "Movietone News" cameras on 12 October 1934.
The plane's pilot was Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Frederick N. Kivette, USN.

Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 October 2002