USS Essex (LHD-2) arrives at Pearl Harbour with 14 vintage aircraft to commemorate the 75th anniversary of V-J Day, 12 August 2020.

 USS Essex.

P-51 Mustang.

B-52 Mitchell.

B-52 Mitchell.

North American T-6 Texan Training Aircraft.

North American T-6 Texan.

FM-2 Wildcat.

 

F8F Bearcat.

Boeing Sterman PT17.

Catalina flying boat.

 

MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle operates from USS USS Billings LCS 15.

 

A Harrier GR9 takes off from the flight deck of HMS Ark Royal for the final time.

RAAF armorers prepare to set demolition charges on a crashed USAAF P-39, 1963; the aircraft had crashed in 1942 and sat undiscovered with a full load of ammunition.

 

US NAVY F/A-18E Super Hornet overflying an aircraft carrier.

 

A Royal Air Force MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft has conducted an airstrike against a group of Islamic State terrorists north of Tikrit in Iraq.

 

Inside the hangar of HMS Avenger, a lift brings down a Sea Hurricane of 802 Naval Air Squadron.

 

CMV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft conduct FltOps on the flight deck of USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean.

 

The Royal Air Force have paused "non-essential flying" by Typhoon and Hawk jets as a "temporary safety precaution" until a technical issue is resolved.

 

Bréguet 1150 Atlantic Maritime patrol aircraft, France.

 

Polish Navy PZL TS-11 Iskra.

 

US Air Force E-3B Sentry.

 

An array of Phantoms, Intruders, Prowlers, Corsair (II)s, Hawkeyes, Sea King on USS Midway, 1984.

 

Ride 'em cowboy!

 

NATO Air Command. Allied and Partner aircraft like these from the Belgian Air Force are ensuring the security of Alliance.

 

Russian A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplan flies past a Project 513 hydroacoustic monitoring ship during testing in the Caspian Sea in 1993

 

McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

 

F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 14, launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

A de Havilland Mosquito landing on HMS Implacable, October 1945.

 

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Base Guam for a scheduled port visit, June 23, 2022.

 

Flight Ops aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during RIMPAC2022.

 

The NHIndustries NH90 is a medium-sized, twin-engine, multi-role military helicopter. It was developed in response to NATO requirements for a battlefield helicopter which would also be capable of being operated in naval environments.

 

View of the torpedo mounting on a U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator.

 

The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog), is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF). In service since 1976,

 

A U-2 lifted off from the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk without catapult assistance or incident, but its landing was a different matter. The expected “bounce” when the aircraft hit the carrier deck damaged a wing.

 

Boeing AH-64D Apache - US Army, 12th CAB, 1-3rd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion "Strike To Kill",

 

USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107) in rough seas, sometime in 1945. TBM-3 Avengers with Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron (VMTB) 143 and FG-1D Corsairs of Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 512 on her deck.

 

Lancaster bomber returns with extensive flak damage from the raid on the German panzer training barracks at Mailly Le Camp, in north central France; 5 May 1944. The raid was successful, however 42 bombers out of an attacking force of 346 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitoes were shot down.