RN Wildcat helicopter (tail number ZZ513) has conducted high altitude flying trials in Altopiano di Asiago, Italy with a full complement of 20 Martlet missiles.

 

EA-18G Growler Returns to the Skies Five Years After a Mid-Air Collision. WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wa. -- An EA-18G Growler attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, successfully completed a functional check flight at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island, Oct. 17, marking the end of a complex transformation process for an aircraft thought to be beyond repair. This five-year effort demonstrates large-scale teamwork between multiple organizations over an extended timeline.

 

TSR2 escorted by a RAF Lightning.

 

1937, marked the maiden flight of the Short Sunderland. It was a large four-engine flying boat patrol bomber developed for the Royal Air Force. Here's a picture of the airplane at EAA Oshkosh 1993.

 

The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft played a pivotal role in two of the most famous events of the Cold War. In the mid-1950s, the United States was desperate to know what was going on behind the Iron Curtain. No information had come out of the Soviet Union since the Second World War. In 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. This, along with other advances in Soviet technology, led to concerns that they were becoming technologically superior. The gathering of photographic aerial intelligence was deemed essential.

 

Two U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom Il from Fighter Squadron VF-114 Aardvarks escort a Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger" bomber as it passes over the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in January 1963. VF-114 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11) aboard the Kitty Hawk for a deployment to the Western Pacific from 13 September 1962 to 2 April 1963.

 

A deployment of the joint RAF-Qatari Typhoon squadron – 12 Squadron — has departed RAF Coningsby to support the Qatar Emiri Air Force with air security operations for the FIFA World Cup.

 

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II Attack aircraft. (Warthog).

 

The Saunders-Roe Princess SR.45 A product of the optimism of post-World War Two Britain, the Saunders-Roe Princess, the largest metal flying boat ever created, promised to revolutionize commercial air travel between London and New York.

 

RAF Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint.

 

Rockwell 14 B-1B Lancer.

 

German Eurofighter Typhoon, Multirole fighter.

 

T-45 Fleet on Safety Pause. Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) placed the Navy and Marine Corps’ fleet of T-45Cs on a safety pause Oct. 14 to review an engine blade fault.

 

MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7).

 

The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter. During the period between World War One and World War Two a new concept began to emerge in the field of military aviation: the heavy fighter. Cue the Bristol Beaufighter.

 

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

 

Dornier Do 335 A-1.White 113, W.N.r. 240113 Flown by Karl-Heinz Appel, Germany, Spring of 1945. This machine was flown by Karl-Heinz Appel when it was damaged in a collision with a Bf 109. It was later captured by US troops at Bindlach jacked up in a hangar while undergoing repairs.

 

US B1-B Lancer.

 

ShinMaywa US-2 Japanese sea plane.

 

US Navy Blue Angels.

 

Grumman F-14 Tomcat.

 

RAF Voyager refuelling an F 35B.

 

VFA-31 F/A-18E Super Hornet completes flight operations and parks on the flight deck of the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).

 

Inside the hangar deck of HMS Victorious while at Hvalfjord, Iceland. A row of Fairey Fulmars is flanked on either side by two rows of Fairey Albacores, all with their wings folded

 

A Kaman SH-2G 'Super Seasprite' multi-role helicopter of the Royal New Zealand Navy tied up on deck of RNZN Te Kaha.

 

The XB-70 started out with some seriously flawed paint. Rather than being burned off due to high speed, evidently it was too thick, got scored during maintenance, cracked and came off due to airframe flexing.

 

Grumman Wildcat fighter aircraft and Supermarine Seafires on deck readied for take-off from HMS Formidable (67) during North African Operations. November 1942.

 

A deckload of U.S. Army Air Force Republic P-47N Thunderbolt fighters on the flight deck of USS Casablanca (CVE-55), 16 July 1945. The planes were loaded at Naval Air Station Alameda, California (USA) and were bound for Guam.

 

in 1945, a hurricane and subsequent fires wreaked havoc on the hangers at Richmond Naval Air Station in Florida. 366 planes and 25 airships were destroyed—which was more than all U.S. aircraft lost during the attack on Pearl Harbour.

 

Draken L-159 Honey Badgers.

 

USS Block Island (CVE-21) hanger deck loaded with Army P-47-D5 fighters, for shipment to Europe, on 15 July 1943. Taken at New York City.

 

South Korean Marine Attack Helicopter KAI KUH-1 Surion.

 

Two mechanics crank the handle of a USAAF Bell P-39Q-1-BE Airacobra, at Hamilton Army Airfield, California (USA), in July of 1943.

 

Following the crash of a Hawk jet last year, ongoing rectification work "will have an impact on UK Fast Jet training output over the next three years".

 

F-22 Raptor Assembly Line at Lockheed Martin.

 

1931, De Havilland DH82 Fairey III Float Drone, used for AA practice.

 

Military aircraft contract specialist Draken Europe has been awarded a six-year contract by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide Agressor aircraft for training the Royal Air Force (RAF).

 

North American T-28 Trojan.

 

RAF Typhoons and Chinook train over white cliffs of Dover.

 

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) simultaneously launching F-35C's.

 

Short Sunderland prototype at Short Brothers facilites in Rochester, Kent.

 

1. P-39Q-30-BE Airacobra 2. P-63A-8-BE Kingcobra 3. Aircraft being built at the Bell Aircraft Corporation factory at Wheatfield, New York. 1944.

 

The last Starfighters. F 104.