Thirsty B 2.

Vulcan XH 558.

The flying 'Turtle'.

Three Hawker Siddeley Argosy's.

 

US PBY-5A Catalina from the United States Coast Guard being pulled to shore for repairs seen here in the frozen Bay Island of Kodiak, Alaska 1943

 

Line up of British V bombers. 6 Avro Vulcans and 6 Handley Page Victor bombers lined up at RAF Scampton.

 

Two U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver aircraft from Bombing Squadron 11 (VB-11) bank over the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) before landing, following strikes on Japanese shipping in the China Sea, circa mid-January 1945.

 

F-22 Chicage air show.

 

Three Lockheed F104G aircraft of the Luftwaffe at RAF Wildenrath.

 

USS Chicago (CA-29) shows the complete set of Vought O3U-1 Corsair reconnaissance floatplanes shortly after her commissioning. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, April 1931.

 

MQ-25 Conducts Air-to-Air Refueling with E-2D. The Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation program completed its first aerial refueling flight with an E-2D aircraft at Mid-America Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. https://seawaves.com/?p=14232

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Reinforcement Spitfires in the hangar deck of USS Wasp for delivery to Malta. 1942.

 

Royal Air Force Stirling bombers, acting as glider tugs, lining at the runway at Tarrant Rushton, England, United Kingdom, May-Jun 1944; note invasion strips

 

American P-51D Mustang and P-47D Thunderbolt fighter aircraft of the US Air Force (USAF) at Lingayen airfield, Philippines. April 19, 1945

 

WWII Photo German Underground He-162 Factory WW2 World War Two Luftwaffe.

 

E-2Cs on USS Enterprise.

 

In 1978 the Royal Navy ceased steam catapult launches from Aircraft Carriers when the last ever Buccaneer was launched from HMS ARK ROYAL. A few hours later the last F4A Phantom was launched too.

 

A Lockheed Hudson of No. 220 Squadron RAF approaches Dunkirk on a reconnaissance patrol during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French port in May-June 1940.

 

USN Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber flies an antisubmarine patrol (see depth charge on undercarriage) over the USS Washington en route to the invasion of the Gilbert Islands (Tarawa and Makin) 12 November 1943. The ship in the background is USS Lexington (CV-16), the aircraft's home carrier.

 

US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber flying over the Pacific, 1944-45.

 

Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Roc dive bombers. Poorly considered the Roc & Skua (its predecessor) bore the RN bombing missions against German units in Norway, operating from the Orkney Islands and HMS Ark Royal damaging several ships and sinking the light cruiser Königsberg.

 

US Douglas A-20B Havoc's of the 47th BG heading to bomb German positions in Tunisia. 1943.

 

Short Sunderland aircraft ("RB-U") at rest, as the flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, sails by at Pembroke Dock, Wales, in May 1941.

 

RNZAF Avenger on Bougainville, 1944.

 

Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an English airfield to replace squadron losses for the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

 

Blackburn Aircraft Company Type B-25 Roc was Second World War Fleet Air Arm fighter, closely related to the Blackburn B-24 Skua from which it was derived and developed in parallel.

 

F-35 C Lightning is catapulted from USS Eisenhower (CVN-69).

 

F4F-4 Wildcats of the VF-9 USS Ranger (CV-4) Operation Torch. Testing guns.

 

The Burnelli UB-14, also known as the Cunliffe-Owen Clyde Clipper, was a 1930s American prototype lifting-fuselage airliner designed and built by Vincent Burnelli.

 

Surplus US carrier aircraft stored for demobilization and prepared for scrapping, Iroquois Point, Oahu, Hawaii, Oct 1945

 

OnThisDay 1941 saw the first operational success by a Hurricane fighter ship when Lt Everett launched from HMS MAPLIN to destroy a German Focke Wolf attack. As the Hurricanes were single use, the pilot had to ditch after their mission,Everett just escaped and was recovered.

 

Consolidated PB2Y Coronado, 1942.

 

The de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide is a 1930s short-haul biplane airliner developed and produced by British aircraft company de Havilland. Capable of accommodating 6–8 passengers, it proved an economical and durable craft, despite its relatively primitive plywood construction.

 

FAA Sea Vixen taking off from HMS Hermes.

Navy conducts first MQ-4C Triton test flight with multi-intelligence upgrade.

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