U.S. made P-39 Airacobras of the RAF 601st Squadron on the field at Duxford . 1941.

 

An F-16 line up.

 

F-16, A-10, F-35 and F-22.

 

Douglas F3D Skyknight, among the first of the jet-powered dedicated Night Fighters. Nicknamed "the whale" for its ungainly appearance.

 

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

 

Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1, Dayton Ohio 1945.

 

Supermarine Walrus being towed by an Indian tractor. Taken in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

 

J2F-6 Duck: A biplane amphibian used by the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard for missions that included scouting, armed photo-reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue.

 

On this day in 1972 Guatemala threatened to invade British Honduras, now Belize, 2,500 miles away. Fleet Carrier HMS ARK ROYAL was ordered at full speed to the area. Off Bermuda she launched 4 Buccaneers to assert air power from over 1200 miles away and prevent any incursion.

 

Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" Designed by Charles H. Zimmerman to create a STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) naval fighter, it was the prototype for the X5U-1, which was never flown due to jet development. The V-173 is at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX, on loan from the Smithsonian.

 

TBF-1 Avengers.

 

NASA WB-57. The WB-57 were RB 57F's modified and operated by NASA.

 

The US Navy obtained 2 surplus P-63 Kingcobras and had Bell installing them with swept wings for research on low-speed and stall characteristics of high-speed wing designs. The USN designated them L-39. 1946.

 

Meet the RAF's new 'loyal wingman': Prototype of high-speed unmanned drone designed to fly alongside fighter jets bringing extra tech and weaponry into war zones goes into production.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9182835/Production-set-start-high-speed-unmanned-drone-designed-fly-alongside-fighter-jets-RAF.html 

Westland Lysander, this liaison aircraft was not produced in large numbers but served in a number of interesting roles like inserting secret agents in France or extricating downed pilots.

 

Curtiss SOC-1s on the Light Cruiser USS Cincinnati (CL-6) at the Port of Oakland, 1938.

 

Lockheed P38 Lightening.

 Lockheed P-38 Lightning 42-67543. Preserved at Duxford UK.

There is not a great deal known about this aircraft's wartime service, other than the real plane belonged to the 20th Fighter Group in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe in Nothamponshife, which was its base for thr rest on the war.The group flew 312 missions before the last mission in April 1945. The airframe was recovered in Austin, Texas, in 1987, before being brought to Duxford.The stripped airframe was shipped to Chino CA. in 1987. In 1992 was registered as N3145X January 1992, and took its first flight a short time after.It was flown back to England, where it was operaated by the Fighter Collection,Duxford.

Sadly the aircraft was destroyed in an airshow accident 1996.

A Mosquito FB Mk VI from the Royal Air Force 143rd Air Division fires a cargo ship with rockets and cannons off Sandefjord in Norway in April 1945.

 

Northrop XP-79B. Designed as an interceptor for the USAAF, it has it's roots in Northrop's MX-324 program. The pilot lay in prone condition, and the aircraft was made of magnesium. Crashed on it's first test flight (9/12/1945), killing test pilot Harry Crosby, who struck the plane while bailing out.

 

A shining Avro Vulcan of No. 44 Squadron approaches the coast. This photographs was taken in 1982. The squadron was disbanded in December that year. A few months later the last Vulcans were taken out of RAF active service.

 

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt.

 

Polish Su-22's.

 

A trio of Women Airforce Service Pilots look over flight plans around the cockpit of a Curtiss A-25A at Camp Davis Army Air Field, North Carolina, circa 1944.

 

The Handley Page Heyford was a twin-engine British biplane bomber of the 1930s. Although it had a short service life, it equipped several squadrons of the RAF as one of the most important British bombers of the mid-1930s, and was the last biplane heavy bomber to serve with the RAF

 

TU95 MS.

 

The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, named for the North American spider, was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night fighter, and the first aircraft designed to use radar.

 

First attempts were as simple as a hose hanging and the pilot below holding it attached to his tank like in a gas station, gravity did the rest. First mid-air refueling took place in 1923, between two Airco DH-4B biplanes of the United States Army Air Service.

 

Supermarine Spitfires.

 

Dornier Do 335A-0 Pfeil (Arrow) Werknummer 240102 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The last remaining example of this heavy fighter, it was restored and loaned in Germany in 1970-80s before returning to America. It was one of many captured aircraft brought to America aboard HMS Reaper in 1945.

 

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress flak damage 1944.

 

Vought F4U 4B Corsair VF-64 various rocket warheads CV 47 Philippine Sea, off Korea 1951.

 

Aichi M6A1 Seiran (Clear Sky Storm) s/n 28 at the National Air and Space Museum. The Seiran was designed to be deployed by the I-400 class aircraft carrier submarines, which could carry three Seirans in a watertight hangar. The aircraft was restored from 1989 to 2000 and is the last of it's kind.

 

3 RN FAA Sea King ASAC Mk7s.

 

B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group, 330th Bomb Squadron, early 1943.

 

The wooden wonder, De Havilland Mosquito

 

Saab Sk 37 Viggen

 

Convair B-36 Peacemaker entered service in 1948. Being replaced by B-52 Stratofortress in 1955.

 

1 of 60 Supercat Jaguars at RAF Cosford and was the last RAF operational Jaguar.

 

. Rockwell B-1B Lancer.

 

RAF B-29s. The UK operated 80 ex-US in the 50,s as a stop gap bomber until an indigenous nuclear bomber, the Canberra, was ready. The RAF designated them as Washington B.1; the bombers were in use from 1950 to 1954. 3 were modified for ELINT missions and remained in service until 1958.

 

Osprey's.

 A set of MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft fly in formation above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sydney, Australia, June 29, 2017. The MV-22Bs belong to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced). VMM-265 (Rein.) is part of the Aviation Combat Element of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU and the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group arrived in Sydney after transiting south across the vast Pacific Ocean, from Okinawa, Japan, to southeastern Australia in just over three weeks. Sydney is a favorite port stop for both Marines and Sailors crossing the Pacific. The 31st MEU partners with the Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 11 to form the amphibious component of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group. The 31st MEU and PHIBRON 11 combine to provide a cohesive blue-green team capable of accomplishing a variety of missions across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

P51 Mustangs and a B17.

 

Fighter-bomber Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib

 

JRF-5 Grumman JRF-5 Goose was assigned to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida in 1941 and remained on the station throughout the Second World War.

 

TU 95 Bear

 

Kingfishers from USS Mississippi 1940.

 

P-26, P-35, P-51 & F-86 Sabre

 

A P-40 Warhawk escorts a Curtiss C-46 Commando, 1941. While the C-47 Dakota is probably more famous the C-46 was a superior plane and was the first available to cross the Hump, the India-China supply route over the Himalayas.

 

Fighter-bomber Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib

 

New Zealand 2090, a Lockheed Hudson IIIA of No. 3 Squadron, flying from Guadalcanal. 20 July 1943.