Vought OS2U Kingfisher

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher BuNo 5909, coded ‘13’, as displayed hanging at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia: a two-seat US Navy observation and scout floatplane, catapulted from battleships and cruisers, with a Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radial and a two-bladed propeller, a long glazed canopy over pilot and observer, a low wing spanning 10.95 m, and a single large central float on a pylon and struts with a small float under each wing tip, shown level on its floats: overall light grey, the white star with red centre in a blue disc on both sides of the fuselage and above and below the wings, a rudder in thirteen red and white stripes, black ‘13’ on the cowling and fuselage, ‘NAVY’ and ‘5909’ in small black letters on the fin, a red band and black hatches on the main float, black walkways at the wing roots, and a black propeller with red, yellow and blue tips (shape from an OS2U float-plane three-view checked against a cutaway drawing and photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 347 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 127 in The Hangar