This photo was taken three years later in May 1939.
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Lockheed P-58 Chain Lightning.
The Lockheed P-58 Chain Lightning is a long range, twin-engined heavy fighter based on the P-38 Lightning. It's designed to use heavy armament to rapidly assault high altitude bombers, with a tail gunner to protect against pursuit aircraft.
Friday, 26 March 2021
AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: CONSOLIDATED MODEL 32 LIBERATOR. (CH 18035) Liberator GR Mark IIIs, FK228 ?M? and FL933 ?O?, of No. 120 Squadron RAF, lined up with other aircraft at Aldergrove, County Antrim. The third aircraft in line is a GR Mark V, FL952, of No. 86 Squadron RAF. The Mark IIIs are equipped with ASV Mark II anti-submarine radar, while FL952 carries centrimetric ASV radar in a radome under the nose.
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
RAF Washington.
In the late 1940s the USA supplied 87 B-29 aircraft to the UK as part of the Mutual Defence Assistance Programme to fill a gap in the RAF inventory until the new Canberra bomber entered service. The aircraft were given the RAF designation Washington.
Saturday, 20 March 2021
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Tuesday, 9 March 2021
The Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo and dive bomber designed by Fairey Aviation. It was the first aircraft of this type operated by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm to be fabricated entirely from metal. The Barracuda was developed as a replacement for the Fairey Albacore biplanes.
Sunday, 7 March 2021
RAF.
An Avro Lancastrian III flying on the power of two Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which have replaced the two outer Rolls Royce Merlins on this engine test-bed, 24 September 1946.
17 November 1946: A modified Avro 691 Lancastrian C.1, VH742, under the command of Rolls-Royce’s chief test pilot, Captain Ronald Thomas Shepherd, O.B.E., flew from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to AĆ©roport de Paris – Le Bourget (LBG) for 17th Salon de Aviation (Paris Air Show) with two Rolls-Royce RB.41 Nene Mk.I turbojet engines for propulsion. The airplane’s two Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 piston engines were shut down, except for takeoff and landing, and their three-bladed propellers were feathered to reduce drag. It was the first-jet-powered passenger transport to fly from one country to another.