P2Y-1 flying boats of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5F pictured during the squadron's record-setting flight from Norfolk, Virginia to Coco Solo, Canal Zone in September 1933, eighty-one years ago this month.
The XRD-1 Dolphin pictured at the end of a seaplane ramp on the Anacostia River during flight testing at Naval Air Station (NAS) Anacostia in Washington D.C. on September 2, 1931, eighty-three years ago today.
With Grumman test pilot Bob Hall at the controls, the company's XF4F-2, prototype for the famed Wildcat fighter, lands at the conclusion of its maiden flight on September 2, 1937, seventy-seven years ago today