Cessna L-19 Bird Dog: Vietnam
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More arcane information: A USMC Cessna OE-2, a mishmash of parts but a good performer with a 265-hp O-470-2 engine. Only 27 were built. Note the hard point and the pilot's gun sight.
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Megan, thanks for the positive and correct ID of the Cessna. I had to shrink the original pic for posting purposes above - however, I pulled out the original, and blew it up as much as I dared (133%), and then cropped the photo to produce this zoomed-in view of the Cessna (below).
Unfortunately, the original photo wasn't particularly clear, due to the aircrafts speed, and the need to catch him in the lens quickly - and then 30 years of poor 35mm slide storage did nothing to help the photo quality, before it was scanned in 2000.
Unfortunately, the original photo wasn't particularly clear, due to the aircrafts speed, and the need to catch him in the lens quickly - and then 30 years of poor 35mm slide storage did nothing to help the photo quality, before it was scanned in 2000.
