Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 12:38 amSikorsky S-43 F-AOUL with De Gaulles Free French WWII wearing the Cross of Lorraine 
Now THAT'S a new on me, I haven't seen that shot before, Thanks !
Bill
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 12:38 amRe: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:26 pmRe: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:55 pmProbably still available on Ebay. afvintage on Flickr hasn't got it but has a few other nice shots of Aeromaritime S-43s https://www.flickr.com/photos/127737164 ... 2087837947
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:28 pmNice series, Thanks. Copied all to files.
Bill
Bill
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:35 pmAnd from that trawl through French Ebay mentioned elsewhere, F-AQHY looking a bit abandoned...(maybe just post-war?)...right click for full pic
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:31 amThanks for the addition.
Bill
Bill
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:52 pmlongshot wrote:Sikorsky S-43 F-AOUL with De Gaulles Free French WWII wearing the Cross of Lorraine
The final selling price was insane.
Another nice photo that's going to disappear into a private collection.
What a pity!
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 12:23 amIt was out of my price range but it was a rare (unique?) photo....All praise then to the dealers who don't watermark their auction photos! ...Ebay seems to archive them for a few months
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:16 pmAnd not in quite the right 'time zone' , but there's some Rudy Arnold/NASM Smithsonian photos of S-43 F-AQHY being loaded onto a barge at Floyd Bennett airfield in January 1938 at http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/viewer/?ea ... 56_ref1044 click to page2 for bulk
Re: Sikorsky S-43 with Free French WWII
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:22 pmAnd back in the right time-zone (WWII) at the end of some 1937 shots of Howard Hughes S-43 there is a single photo of the ex-Inter-Island-Airways twin-tail S-43B? ready for shipping to KNILM as PK-AFT http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/viewer/?ea ... 56_ref1045 (on page2)
Bill Larkins got a shot of sister-ship twin-tail PK-AFU probably also at Floyd Bennett
Bill Larkins got a shot of sister-ship twin-tail PK-AFU probably also at Floyd Bennett