Flight Ops aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77).

 

 

333FS Lancers on a training ride.

 

Polish Army Mi-8T during exercise Falcon Autumn 22.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Take a glimpse inside Royal Navy carrier's hangar stocked with F-35B jets.

 

F/A-18.

 

Blenheim in action at Duxford back in September.

 

The arrival of three F-35B jets means the UK has now taken delivery of 30 jets. With one aircraft lost in an accident and three test jets in the US, there are now 26 of the type in operational service in the UK. Seven more will arrive in 2023 with an expectation that all of the 47 in the first batch will be delivered by the end of 2025. Note that it would have been 48 if one didn’t crash.

Blohm und Voss BV-238 standnin the cold waters of the North Sea during 1944. This giant transport aircraft was a six engine beast capable of carrying up to 30 tons of load. The only prototype was destroyed during an air raid.

 

"Seek and Destroy" RAF Tornado wings swept back flying through the Mach Loop

 

Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters lined up.

 

A B-52's bomb bay filled with 750lb bombs. April 1967.

 

A side view of a section of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) that shows the hangar deck (with hangar deck catapult) and flight deck. A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron VF-1 is visible on the latter. Yorktown was placed in commission on 15 April 1943.

 

HMCS Charlottetown's CH-124 Sea King helicopter hovers behind the ship and launches its defensive flares during a training flight on September 20, 2017.

 

MiG 17.

 

Corsair II NE-304 launches from the USS Ranger with a load of Snakeyes, 1968.

 

At the end of October, the first of 28 new AH-64E V6 Apaches was officially delivered to the Royal Netherlands Air Force in a ceremony at Boeing's assembly site in Mesa, Arizona. Deliveries to the Dutch 302 training squadron in Fort Hood, Texas, will start in December.

 

Westland Lysander V9312 (G-CCOM).

 

One way to demonstrate how strong the B52 wings are.

 

Teams at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland.

 

Grumman TBM Avenger aboard the USS Hoggart Bay (CVE-75), hangs on carrier bow after overrunning flight deck.

 

New Jersey Air National Guard F-4 Phantom flying in close formation with a Norwegian Air Force F-5 Tiger II aircraft during exercise Coronet Rawhide. 1982.

 

34 Arado Ar 234 Blitz and Me 262 German aircraft shipped back to the United States aboard the British Navy aircraft carrier HMS Reaper on July 20th, 1945.

 

Bell OH-58 Kiowa is a family of single-engine single-rotor military helicopters used for observation, utility, and direct fire support. It was produced by the American manufacturer Bell Helicopter and is closely related to the Model 206A JetRanger civilian helicopter. Croation Air Force.

 

Iberian Airbus A350-900 (359).

 

Fleet Air Arm Sea Harrier being lifted by a US Navy CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter to the Royal Navy carrier HMS Invincible.

 

End of an Era: Navy Conducts Final AQM-37 Launch. The Navy launched the last two remaining AQM-37 targets Sept. 22 in support of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Fires Mission Command operations at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

 

English Electric Lightning. Even while the iconic Spitfire was still in frontline service with the RAF, plans were being drawn up for a new generation of combat aircraft that would offer performance not dreamed of by wartime pilots. One company that would drive this forward was not new, but it was also not a name popularly associated with the design of British military aircraft: English Electric. And they would go on to produce an aircraft with unbelievable performance – the Lightning.

 

Arabian Gulf (Apr. 13, 2003) -- Hanger Deck Crew move a F-14D Tomcat assigned to the “Bounty Hunters” of Fighter Squadron Two (VF-2) onto one of four aircraft elevators aboard USS Constellation (CV 64).

 

Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) has resumed T-45C Goshawk aircraft flight operations today. Have been on a safety pause since Oct. 14 following the discovery of an engine blade failure.

 

FAA Wildcat coming in on HMS Kent, and test firing Martlet.

 

One of only nine B-24C Liberators takes to the air as a test bomber over the continental US.

 

Fully armed! French based Douglas AD-4 Skyraider F-AZHK/127002 makes for an imposing sight at Flying Legends 2011 with 12 rails and replica rockets, 4 x 20 mm model Cannons, 2 x dummy 500lb bombs and centre line 300 gallon drop tank! This Skyraider now carries a Vietnam era USAF scheme.

 

A F/A-18A Hornet and its shelter, Spanish Air Force.

 

Avro Vulcan on a low flypast at Farnborough Air Show.

 

RAF 6 Sqn Typhoons arrived in Australia for Exercise Pitch Black.

 

F-4EJ Phantom of 301 Hikotai 'Frogs'.

 

Curtiss C-46 Commando, one of Pablo Escobar / Carlos Lehder’s drug smuggling planes near Norman’s Cay in the Bahamas, after 35 years submerged In saltwater

 

A week ago in 1973, in response to CIA reports the USSR was shipping nuclear weapons and troops to Egypt to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Strategic Air Command, Continental Air Defense Command, European Command, and the Sixth Fleet moved to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 1962.

 

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk.