Boeing photo of an EQ-25 refueling a US navy E2-D.

A Gloster Javelin FAW.9R (XH890) of No 23 Squadron.

 

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 463 hoists a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle during hoist operations training on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, September 2, 2021. Hoist operations were conducted in order to train landing support specialist and pilots to transfer heavy equipment and supplies from one location to another.

 

Loire 130 flying boat with the four-barreled insignia of French battleship Strasbourg.

 

Navy Lockheed P2V Neptune launches with Jet-assisted take-off (JATO) from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) on 2 July 1951.

 

Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish torpedo/bomber on USS Wasp n#2 elevator, May 1942. Wasp ferried British planes to Malta twice.

 

USS Sirago (SS-485) and an S2F-3 Tracker from antisubmarine aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CVS-15) in 1962.

 

Hangar bay of USS Ranger (CV-61), 9 January 1989.

 

US Marine F-35B, on board HMS QE.

 

Two Brazilian Air Force Embraer A-29 Super Tucanos in flight over the Amazon Rainforest. 28 May, 2011.

 

A formation 'cartridge start' by Hawker Sea Hawk aircraft on-board HMS Eagle, in 1955. A great many early jet (and many piston engine too) aircraft used these explosive cartridge start systems, each aircraft usually carrying several in a revolving drum, for use away from base.

 

The Navy tradition held, that pilots who made a navigational error, and landed on the wrong carrier, got mocked by the crew, who decorated the plane with graffiti. Adding US Air Force markings is the ultimate insult to an already embarrassed naval pilot.

 

North American P-51 Mustang's.

 

HMS Ark Royal deck packed with classics. Aircraft are Blackburn Buccaneer, FG.1 Phantom, Fairey Gannet and a Westland Sea King helicopter.

 

Arado Ar 234, Me 410 and a Ju 88 found in a hangar of Manching aerodrome in the south of Germany, 1945.

 

BAE Systems to Provide IFF for US Navy E-2D Hawkeyes

 

CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter is parked on the helicopter pad during flight operations aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61) 1985

 

A Vought OS2U Kingfisher being recovered by USS South Dakota BB-57. Mid Atlantic 1943.

 

Xian H-6, is a licence-built version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 twin-engine jet bomber, built for China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).

 

Banshee drones on HMS Prince of Wales, this time dropping QinetiQ orange for a Fleet Air Arm paint scheme.

 

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 463 hoists a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and Naval Strike Missile to simulate transporting the NSM long range over water.

 

Two U.S. Marine F-35B Lightning IIs and two U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles fly above the U.K. aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth during a training mission over the western Pacific Ocean.

 

Messerschmitt Me 262, ultimate predator at the end of WWII.

 

The last British Avro Lancaster in flying condition over Avro Vulcan B.2s of No 230 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) based at RAF Finningley

 

Avro Lancaster (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) over the Derwent Water Dam, 65 years after the famous Dambuster raid or "Operation Chastise". Derwent Dam (Derbyshire) was used as a training location prior to the mission that took place on May 1943.

 

Grumman TBF Avengers fly above the orderly squares of sugar cane fields during a raid on Tinian Island in the Marianas; 1944

 

Short Seamew

The Short SB.6 Seamew was a British aircraft designed in 1951 by David Keith-Lucas of Shorts as a lightweight anti-submarine platform to replace the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA)'s Grumman Avenger AS 4 with the Reserve branch of the service. It first flew on 23 August 1953, but, due to poor performance coupled with shifting defence doctrine, it never reached service and only 24 production aircraft had flown before the project was cancelled. It has been described as a "camel amongst race-horses".

Shown on HMS Bulwark.

 

USS Wyoming (BB-32) leads USS Nevada (BB-36), USS Oklahoma (BB-37), USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) on their way back from Caribbean to New York. April 13, 1919.

 

Tempest Mk.V's lined up on completion at the Hawker Aircraft Company works at Langley, Berkshire. WWII.

 

Antonov AN-225 disgorging a Gulfstream.

 

The Arado Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance low-wing monoplane aircraft built by the German firm of Arado starting in 1936. The next year it was selected as the winner of a design contest and became the standard aircraft of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) throughout WW II.