NATO jets scrambled 370 times in 2021

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-jets-scrambled-370-times-in-2021/ 

British RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, designed to soak up electronic signals, have been deployed near Crimea twice in the last seven days.

 

An F/A-18E Super Hornet takes off from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 21, 2021

 

 Voyager tankers scrambled to refuel cargo aircraft over Arctic.

Read report on Two Royal Air Force Voyager tanker aircraft are now being deployed to refuel a cargo aircraft over the Arctic.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/voyager-tankers-scrambled-to-refuel-cargo-aircraft-over-arctic/ 

RAF surveillance.

 An RAF Rivet Joint RC-135W signals intelligence aircraft taking off from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.The RC-135W Rivet Joint is a large, all-weather electronic surveillance aircraft based on the C-135 airframe.The Royal Air Force has purchased three RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, currently being converted from KC-135R Stratotanker airframes to RC-135W standard at the L3 Communications facility in Greenville, Texas. The first aircraft is due for delivery in late 2013, with the final delivery expected in 2017.A programme of continual upgrades has kept the USAF RC-135 fleet at the cutting edge of technology and relevant capability. The three RAF aircraft will continue to benefit from the upgrade programme in turn with USAF aircraft.The RC-135W Rivet Joint is equipped with a variety of sensors, allowing its multi- disciplined crew to intercept and exploit emissions across the electromagnetic spectrum, providing both strategic and tactical level intelligence.

Stratolauncher.

 Billionaire Paul Allen's private spaceflight company Stratolaunch has just unveiled the world's biggest airplane: a massive carrier plane with a wingspan longer than an entire football field. 2017.

https://www.space.com/39155-stratolaunch-wprlds-largest-plane-test-photos.html

An RAF Westland Walrus amphibian, seen at the 1938 'Open Day' at RAF Pembroke Dock.

 

ZR-1 airship.

 The future USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) newly completed, in a photo dated 25 August 1923. She  was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was constructed during 1922–1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew in 1923. It developed the U.S. Navy's experience with rigid airships and made the first crossing of North America by airship.

A grounded B-24 Liberator preparing to take off in a ploughed field.

 

RAF Typhoon, from the RAF Display team.

 

4 years to build.

 The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Claude Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work-hours it was completed in June 1929.

Fairey Firefly T Mk.1 1948.

The Fairey Firefly is a Second World War-era carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft that was principally operated by the Fleet Air Arm. 

Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Minot AFB is the only dual-wing nuclear capable base in the Air Force. The host unit, the 5th Bomb Wing, is one of two B-52H Stratofortress bomber bases in the Air Force. The base’s 91st Missile Wing is one of the Air Force’s three operational missile units. The 91st Missile Wing operates, maintains, and secures a fleet of Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.

The view from inside the starboard hangar of the battleship HMS Anson, June 1942.

 

PBY-4s of VP-21 at Sangley Point, the Philippines, early 1940.

 

On this day in 1940, eight Swordfish aircraft from Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy 830 Naval Air Squadron bombed Tripoli from their base in Malta.

 

https://pacificeagles.net/fairey-swordfish/

USMC Sea Stallion helicopter lifts a Royal Navy Harrier from the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible.

 

A Russian Mil Mi-24 version, DMP-DF-25 HIND BIRD flown by the 87th "Bakony" Combat Helicopter Regiment of the Hungarian Air Force.

 

Supermarine Walrus K8341on HMS York, in San Francisco 1938.

 

Boeing Helicopters Apache production line, Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona.

 

Vought F4U Corsair.

 

Marines CH-53 Super Stallion.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth.

On 24th November the USMC jets flew off HMS Queen Elizabeth to Naval Station, Rota in Spain, their first stop on their return to their home base at MACS Yuma in Arizona. The deployment of US aircraft on the British carrier has been an outstanding success and likely to be repeated again in future. The carrier subsequently made her final port visit of the deployment in Rota to offload USMC personnel and equipment.

A B-52H Stratofortress taxis across the flightline during Global Thunder 19 at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Nov. 4, 2018.

 

Minot Air Force Base, is a U.S. Air Force installation in Ward County, North Dakota, home of B 52H Stratofortress.

 

The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II on a hangar elevator of the italian carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 2011.

 

Republic RC-3 Seabee.

 

The Swiss Air Force is conducting air exercises at RAF Leeming to enable the country’s F-18 Hornet pilots to achieve important day and night-flying.

 

MQ-25A prototype onboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77).

 

The Royal Norwegian Air Force has taken delivery of its very first P-8A Poseidon. Based on the 737-800, this military variant’s primary role is maritime patrol, including submarine spotting. The aircraft was delivered on November 18th and is the first in an order of five.

 

The McDonnell XP-67 "Bat" or "Moonbat".

 

RAF Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF14.

 

Pan Am Clipper Martin MB130 Airplane Flying Boat 1930s in Honolulu.

In 1935 a PanAmerican China Clipper left Alameda, CA for Honolulu establishing the first scheduled trans-Pacific airmail service. At an average speed of 130 mph, it took 20 hours traveling with a cargo of 110,000 pieces of US mail.

Fieseler FI156 Storch was a German liaison aircraft built before and during the war. Normally it was equipped with Argus inline engine. Few hundred Storchs were made in France and some of those planes were equipped with radial engines like this one.