Monday, 19 July 2021

A Martin PBM-3D Mariner prepares to launch from a coastal Naval Air Station to patrol for German submarines spring 1943. The landing gear had to be manually removed before takeoff and reinstalled before exiting the water. Mariners were one of the most effective of the Navy’s long-range flying boats.


 

German He 111 medium bomber after crash landing near Humbie, Scotland. 28 Oct 1939.


 

Following the Sea Fury T20 accident on 28 April 2021, when the aircraft was extensively damaged as a result of engine failure coming into land at RNAS Yeovilton, the insurance underwriters have formally assessed the aircraft as a write-off.


 

HMAS Australia shines its searchlights, the Firth of Forth, Scotland. In the foreground is a two-seater Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, its take-off from Q turret on April 4, 1918, was the first take-off of a two-seater aircraft from a ship.


 

C5 Galxies at the boneyard. About 4,400 aircraft are located at Davis-Monthan Air Base, Tucsan.


 

Saturday, 10 July 2021