Sunday, 7 March 2021

Fleet Air Arm Fairey Gannet.


 

A U-2 Dragon Lady flies over the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco, California, 2016. The U-2 is capable of flying at altitudes exceeding 70,000 ft.


 

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.




Junkers Ju 87 R-2/Trop Werknummer 5954 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL. This aircraft was captured by British forces in 1941 in North Africa, and delivered to the US for evaluation in WWII, it is the last intact Stuka in a museum.