RAF Chinook HC5 at RAF Odiham.

 

The Arado 232 was a Luftwaffe transport aircraft that featured several (then) revolutionary design features. A large, level load floor, rear cargo door and a series of smaller ancillary wheels for rough field landings being the most obvious. Less than 20 saw operational service.

 

F-117 Knighthawk.

 

Wildcat conducting test flying with asymmetric load of Sea Venom missiles at Leonardo UK Yeovil today. Sea Venom may also get a work out at the upcoming SINKEX.

 

An MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, assigned to the “Wildcards” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 prepares to launch aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8).

 

Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion.

 

RAF English Electric Lightning.

 

F/A-18C on USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

Swordfish Saluting HMS Victorious R38 Portsmouth 1969.

 

Grumman HU-16B/ASW Albatross.

 

Crewmen spotting a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat on the hangar deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Long Island (AVG-1), 17 June 1942. Several other F4F-4s are present, as are Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull scout-observation planes. All are from Auxiliary Scouting Squadron 1 (VGS-1).

 

U.S. Navy Boeing-Vertol UH-46D Sea Knight on the fantail of the ammunition ship USS Suribachi (AE-21). The helicopter experienced a mechanical faliure during an ammunition offload from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off Virginia (USA), in September 1992. Only one crewman was injured.

 

USS Coral Sea with a full complement.

 

Agusta Westland AW159 Wildcat of the Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Force.

 

BV 138 MS Seedrache minesweeping aircraft being lifted onto a seaplane tender, date unknown.

 

USS Tripoli (LHA 7) coming into San Diego with a full load.

 

Royal Air Force Buccaneer S2A XT284, 1983.

 

A Fairy Swordfish floatplane taxies past two famous ships which were lost early in WW2. The destroyer HMS GLOWWORM was lost to the Admiral Hipper 8 Apr 40 while the battlecruiser HMS HOOD was lost to the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen 24 May 41.

 

Royal Navy FAA Merlin Mk4 operating in Norway.

 

HMS Prince of Wales hoisting her Walrus from the catapult deck.

 

A-4C Skyhawk Bu No 149566, AJ-404, suspended over the port side with it's nose just touching the water after catching the No.2 wire at such an angle that it proceeded to go over the side. USS Shangri-LA (CVA-38). 1960's ?

 

RAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III.

 

Sailors transport an F-35C Lightning II, assigned to the "Black Knights" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

 

An aircraft museum in north Cumbria has added a Cold War-era submarine-hunter to its collection. The Fairey Gannet arrived at the Solway Aviation Museum near Carlisle where it will be going on permanent display.

 

F-14 Tomcat.

 

Britain confirms plans to purchase 74 F-35B jets. The head of the Royal Air Force has confirmed plans to purchase 74 F-35B jets adding that it is "possible" the UK may eventually have a fleet of 138 F-35s.