The first RN aviator, Lt Lewis Phillips, has earned his Wings on the UK's new fast jet training aircraft - the Texan T1. (Which replaces the Tucano).

 

USS Currituck (AV-7) and a Martin P5M flying boat.

 

Douglas A-1 Skyraider.

 The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly AD Skyraider) is an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career; it became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed "Spad", after the French World War I fighter.^[2]

It was operated by the United States Navy (USN), the United States Marine Corps (USMC), and the United States Air Force (USAF), and also saw service with the British Royal Navy, the French Air Force, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF), and others. It remained in U.S. service until the early 1970s.

Four U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell F-4J Phantom II, from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron VMFA-333 "Shamrocks" in flight. VMFA-333 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 7 July 1976 to 7 February 1977.

 

Machynlleth Loop (Mid Wales). Airbus A400M Atlas low-level pass.

 

A graveyard for surplus heavy bombers at Davis-Monthan airbase in the Arizona desert. 1949.

 

An A-1 Skyraider from squadron VA-176 Thunderbolts on deck of USS Intrepid (CVS 11) in September 1966.

 

P-47 Corsair, P-51 Mustang and a P-63 Kingcobra.

 

Vulcan with open bomb bay and BAC Lightning

 

The last military biplane type procured by the United States Navy was the SBC Hell Diver dive bomber on the deck of USS Enterprise near the Hawaiian Islands in the spring of 1941.

 

Avro Shackleton MR Mk3 South African Air Force 1722, from the SAAF Historical Flight in Cape Town.

 

Finnish F2A Brewster Buffalo.

 

Fighters of the USS Yorktown get ready to launch a strike against the Marshall and Gilbert island chain during the November-December 1943 campaign.

 

Cold War. Crew of an Handley Page Victor strategic bomber run to their stations during a practice alert 1960's.

 

Typhoon IB MN178 PR-V of No. 609 Squadron RAF with 12 rockets.

 

40 years of the Chinook in the UK.

 

Boeings Page:-  Copy and paste link.

http://www.boeing.co.uk/chinook40?sf240234636=1

Squadron of Mosquitos during WW2.

 

British Royal Air Force (RAF) Avro Vulcan B.2 Bombers - RAF Finningley - 1977.

 

Northrop F-89 Scorpion–The First Combat Aircraft Armed with Air-to-Air Nuclear Weapons.

 

Vampires flying in formation along the coast of New Zealand. 1957.

 

B2 and B52's.

 

Spitfire fuselages at the Itchen works, Southampton, in 1939. In the background is a Supermarine Stranraer flying-boat.

 

Captured French Amiot 143M.

 

The Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy in RAF slang) was a single seat fighter bomber. It was intended to be a medium-high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane, but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.

Apache assembly line.

 

Tupolec T-22M Strategic Bomber.

 

Handley Page HP-54 Harrow.

 

A formation of C-17 Globemaster IIIs from the 62nd Airlift Wing, 446th Airlift Wing, and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska,

 

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker's wingspan of 230 ft was longer than the first flight made by Wright Brother's Kitty Hawk Flyer in 1903

 

Fully booted and spurred Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A 18C Hornet.

 

800 NAS’s visit to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1984. ‘Ike’was the carrier earmarked by the Pentagon to intervene in the Falklands war if required - and part of a contingency plan to evacuate US nationals from Argentina.

 

An E-2C unfolds its wings aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. 2013.

 

Sukhoi Su-57.

 

BERIEV A-50 AWACS.

 

A1 Skyraider dropping Napalm, Vietnam. 1964.

 

Dassault Rafale.

 

The Mil Mi-24 is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers.

 

Lady of the Lake.

 

WB-29 tail number 44-62214, was a B-29 that was outfitted for weather reconnaissance. It was stationed at Eielson AFB from the late 1940’s to the mid 1950’s. One bit of history about this aircraft is that it was the first aircraft to detect a Soviet nuclear detonation. Eventually 44-62214 was stripped of parts to keep the rest of the fleet airborne and was promptly written off. After being taken out of the Air Force inventory it was then placed in a quarry and submerged to be used for rescue training. She was then deemed unsafe, and left there where she remains to this day.

Boeing 747 Dreamlifter, also known as the Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner. With a volume of 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 m³)[2] the Dreamlifter can hold three times that of a 747-400F freighter.[3] It is used primarily for transporting Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft components to Boeing's assembly plants from suppliers around the world.

 

An F/A-18C Hornet, assigned to the "Golden Dragons" of Strike Fighter Squadron One Nine Two (VFA-192), launches from the flight deck of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). Kitty Hawk and embarked Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) are currently returning to their homeport after a scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility. 2005.

 

E-2C Hawkeye.

 

RA-5C Vigilante hanging off USS Enterprise. Poor parking!

 

MiG-15 MiG-29 and MiG 29 UB.

 

RAF Fylingdales, on the North York Moors, during the cold war, was (and is?) the UK's most visible early warning station. The site is seen being overflown by RAF Avro Vulcan B Mk 2 bombers, part of Britain's 'reply' to the Soviet Threat.