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Old 05-05-2019, 11:28 AM
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Another Altair

I just found a website that contains an image of an Altair identified as the XRO-1, although it has Army-style horizontal rudder stripes, no cheat line or "U.S. Navy" on the fuselage, and a flag on the fuselage that is not the Assistant Secretary of the Navy's flag. I think it is the Y1C-23 or the Y1C-25.

But the site includes a number of other great images, including Lindberg's Sirius (one image with Charles and Anne Morrow Lindberg in the cockpits of the early, open-cockpit version), the original Altair (Sirius fuselage with retracting undercarriage) as USAAC Y1C-25, Kingsford-Smith's Altair, and others. It's well worth a look. S.A.M. #77: Wings of Passion (II) - Dieselpunks

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