This Incredible Plane: Boeing L-15 Scout - Plane & Pilot

This Incredible Plane: Boeing L-15 Scout - Plane & Pilot

Scout planes have played a significant role in military aviation since World War I. In fact, long before the exploits of American ace Eddie Rickenbacker and the “Hat in the Ring Squadron,” the early Army Signal Corps aviation units conducted artillery spotting and reconnaissance. In a footnote to history, on D-Day in 1944, landing craft were modified to carry and launch spotter planes, and a Stinson L-5 was the first aircraft to land in Normandy…