Royal Australian Air Force F-111.

 

USS Enterprise (CVAN-65).

Scene on the carrier's hangar deck, taken during Operation "Sea Orbit", 15 September 1964. Aircraft seen include North American A-5A Vigilante heavy attack planes (including BuNo 146700, at left, undergoing maintenance); Vought F-8E Crusader fighters; Douglas A-4C Skyhawk light attack planes (including BuNo 147745 and 149543) and McDonnell F-4B Phantom II fighters.

Royal Navy F-4K Phantoms on HMS Ark Royal (RO9). 50 years ago.

 

CH-53 Super Stallion.

 

Curtiss SBC Helldiver on USS Enterprise.

 

Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.

 

A group of redirected 398th BG's on a mission over Munich in April 1945. The 398 Bomb Group flew 195 combat missions, the last being on April 25, 1945.

 

F3B-1 (foreground), F6C-3 Hawk (center), and T4M-1 (background) aircraft on the flight deck of USS Lexington, 1929.

 

P-51C Mustang wearing the colours of 487 Fighter Squadron, nicknamed 'The blue nosed bastards'.

 

English Electric Lightning.

 

Even before the F4F Wildcat had been purchased by U.S. Navy, the French Navy and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) had ordered the Wildcat, with their own configurations, via the Anglo-French Purchasing Board. The F4F Wildcat (known in British service at first as the Martlet) was taken on by the FAA as an interim replacement for the Fairey Fulmar. In contrast to the USN F4F-3, the British Martlet Mk II was fitted with armor and self-sealing fuel tanks. The Mk II also had a larger tailwheel. For carrier operations, the "sting" tail hook and attachment point for the American single-point catapult launch system were considered important advantages. Nevertheless, the Martlets were modified to have British-style catapult spools.

 

An Avro Lancaster B Mk III.

 

Mi-28N Night Hunter.

 

This week is the 10th anniversary of the retirement of the Harrier Jump Jet with the UK.

 

AC-119K Stinger gunship with its 20mm Vulcans and Miniguns on the side.

 

North American B-25 Mitchel and 2 P-51's.

 

Saunders Roe Princess.

 

French light cruiser Georges Leygues in New York, July 1939, with a Loire 130 aircraft on a catapult.

RAF Northrop N3PB.

 

Jet fighter Bell P-59 Airacomet 44-22625 in flight.

 

A Vulcan over a Victor.

 

The Convair B-58 Hustler, designed and produced by American aircraft manufacturer Convair, was the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 flight.

 

Airbus A330-700 Beluga XL.

 

A U.S. Navy Grumman JRF Goose amphibian in flight over mountains in Alaska (USA), circa in 1942-1943.

 

Avro Vulcan.

 

Caspian Sea Monster.

 

A CH-53E Super Stallion lands on USS Iowa 1982.

 

F15S/MTD or STOL was a NASA led project to experiment with super maneuverability in modern aircraft. It had aggressive canards on the front and vertical thrust vectoring 2D nozzles at the rear. Alongside this, NASA also experimented with F14 Tomcats and F/A18 Hornets.

 

Two No.1 Squadron Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1s during Exercise SNOWY OWL, a field deployment exercise held in March 1972 in a German Forrest. Following a sortie, the Harriers are positioned back in their hides and readied for another flight.

 

An original T-6 Texan aircraft (painted as a US Navy SNJ), right, with the new T-6 Texan II, left,

 

U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolt fighters on the flight deck of USS Casablanca (CVE-55), 16 July 1945. The planes were loaded at Naval Air Station Alameda, California (USA) and were bound for Guam.

 

RAF Airbus Defence A400M Atlas at Gibraltar.

 

RAAF Pilatus PC-9 Forward Air Control Aircraft.

 

Hawker Hunter. Cold War Jet.

 

AH-64 Apache Longbow and Mi-28 Night Hunter.

 

Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster.

The XB-42 was an experimental bomber aircraft designed pitched for a bomber with a high top speed. The idea was to mount the two engines within the fuselage with a pair of contra-rotating propellers placed on the tail in a pusher configuration which would leaving the wing and fuselage clean and free of drag-inducing protrusions. May, 1944.

German Me 262 jet, flown into American lines near Frankfurt by defecting Luftwaffe pilot.

 

Harrier GR 9 on HMS Ark Royal.

 

B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 602nd BS, 398th BG, at a very high altitude, in one of their last bombing raids of the war over Germany in 1945. They'd actually remove the Chin Turrets for extra speed as there was no Luftwaffe resistance at this point of the war.