Fleet Air Arm Martlet-equipped Wildcat.

 

Grumman F-14 Tomcats.

 

Blackburn Beverley 47 Squadron RAF.

 

An assembly ship (also known as a formation ship or Judas goat) were B-17's and B-24's (usually older models) that were stripped down of their armaments and given extra flares, navigational equipment, and unique distinctive paint scheme in order to organize combat box formations more quickly.[

 

On 2 August 1917, Squadron Commander Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow. It was the first time an aircraft had touched down on the deck of a moving ship and marked the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers. Tragically, Dunning died a week later when, attempting the feat for a second time, his aircraft lost power, made a hard landing and was swept overboard by strong winds.

 

US Air Force WWII Bell P-39 Airacobra (Brooklyn Bum) light attack fighter in flight.

 

British Boston and A-20 bombers on assembly line 1941.

 

Soviet Tupolev TB-3 transporting a light amphibious tank.

 

RAF Martin 187 Baltimore.

 

Hawker Sea Hurricanes inside HMS Argus hangar.

 

Indian Navy Sea Harriers.

 

C-17 Globemaster, and baby C-17.

 

British fighter-bomber Mosquito (de Havilland Mosquito FB. Mk VI) attacks a German submarine in the Kattegat.

 

A seaplane Savoia-Marchetti S.55 landing on water near the italian heavy cruiser Trento. Trento was later in ww2 torpedoed and sunk by a British torpedo bomber and a submarine in June 1942 with heavy loss of life

 

All five aircraft being purchased for the RAF, based on the Boeing 737 NG airliner, will be modified to the E-7 AEW standard by local British company Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group based in Cambridge, eastern England.

 

ShinMaywa US-2 at Atsugi.

 

Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

 

The Grumman AF Guardian was the first purpose-built antisubmarine carrier-based aircraft to enter service with the U.S. Navy.

 

Vought A-7 Corsair II.

 

RA-5 “Vigilante” refuels from an A3B “Skywarrior” high above its mobile Seventh Fleet airbase, USS Ranger (CVA-61),1965.

 

RAF Eurofighter Typhoon and Spitfire.

 

U.S. Air Transport Command DC plane, loaded with war supplies, flies over the pyramids at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, in 1943.

 

Tu-95MS - turboprop strategic bomber-missile carrier.

 

MV-22B Ospreys operating on USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4).

 

Martin B-26B Marauder of the 596th Bombardment Squadron, 2 August 1944.

 

T-45 Goshawk lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

 

The old and the new.

 

EA-6B Prowler

Grumman Avengers.

 

Red Arrows and USAF F35 over New York.

Red Arrows over New York.

 

Shark-mouthed U.S. Air Force North American F-51D Mustang fighters of the 12th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. Early 50's.

 

Handout photo dated today issued by the MoD showing a Eurofighter Typhoon (near) and a Russian Bear F aircraft (far), one of two Russian aircraft the Typhoon has been sent to intercept off the Scottish Coast.

 

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis ‘C340’.

 

French Dassault Rafale.

 

Four Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft parked on the flight line of Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina (USA).

 

Ka-52 Alligator is an all-weather attack helicopter operated by the Russian Air Force.

 

Six US B52s (one pictured leading a formation over the North Sea) joined allied planes in a NATO exercise for the first time as air forces flew over all 30 nations in a single day on Thursday.

 

 

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Things that make you go boom. A B-52 shows off its arsenal of munitions.

 

AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

 

British surveillance aircraft were operating over the Black Sea near Crimea at the same time two B-52 bombers approached the disputed territory before turning back.

 

Our friends from across the pond have arrived in the UK. They will be working with OC 617SQN at RAF Marham, before they join later in the month aboard HMS QE, embarking the most aircraft on a RN carrier since HMS Hermes.

 

The French cruiser Gloire's seaplane catapult.

 

North American XB-70 Valkyrie.

 

Two RAF Tornado GR4 reconnaissance aircrafts take off from RAF Marham on February 7, 2003.