File:Consolidated PBY-5A in flight with magnetic anomaly detector in 1943.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina patrol plane streaming a magnetic anomaly detection ("MAD") "Bird", 29 May 1943. The plane appears to also have a "MAD" boom in her tail.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-383725 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy, photographed by Fleet Air Wing 9 (FAW-9).

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