How to Recognise Aircraft
: Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-1 (Kingfisher). I —The Kingfisher has been designed for (catapult operations from cruisers and other warships. It is a very efficient 'aircraft and is believed to be the fastest ■ catapult machine in the world.
Principal Structural Features: Singleengined, low-wing monoplane with Hout undercarriage. The wings are slightly tapered with rounded tips, most of the taper being on the trailing edge. There is a small dihedral angle. The fuse lage is very clean with a radial engine, and large glass cockpit covers from just behind the engine almost to the rudder. The fin and rudder are tapered with a rounded apex, and are placed wholly on top of the fuselage. The tail plane is tapered with rounded tips I The undercrariage consists of a single | float mounted below the fuselage on ; three struts and braced by wire. The : wing-tip floats are mounted and braced I by long struts. Special Recognition Points.—Small I wing, clean fuselage with large cockpit (covers, single float undercarriage.
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Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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166How to Recognise Aircraft Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 19, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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