re: #394 Dark_Falcon

It’s from the USS North Carolina museum. Kingfishers were used by battleships as search-and-rescue and spotter planes. These were short distance for the most part, as was true for most nations. The exception was Japan, which used cruiser and battleship floatplanes for longer range recon as part of their task force air search doctrine. But IJN floatplanes were longer ranged than the Kingfisher, though that range was at the expense of armor and self-sealing fuel tanks,

Sounds pretty dangerous.