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Friday, 28 July 2023

SR.45 Princess The - Largest Metal Flying Boat Ever Built. The Saunders-Roe Princess, the largest metal flying boat ever created, promised to revolutionize commercial air travel between London and New York. First envisioned by the Saunders-Roe aeronautical company, it aimed to build on the success of the long-range flying boat services.



 

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LockheedMartin expects to deliver between 100 – 120 F-35s to global customers in 2023, down from an earlier projection of 147 – 153 aircraft because of delays in developing the Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3) upgrade.


 

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"An F-35B Lightning II aircraft from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Air Combat Element (ACE), takes off of the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), while sailing in the East China Sea, June 8.


 

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RAF Chinook HC4.


 

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Monday, 24 July 2023

Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules, (Fat Albert).


 

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P-38 Lightning at the flying legends airshow.


 

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XZ594 Sea King HC3., of the RAF.


 

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Friday, 21 July 2023

Hughes XF-11, a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes for the United States Army Air Forces. The aircraft never reached full production.


 

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EB-47E Stratojet at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Arizona.


 

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The Blackburn B-54 was a post war prototype ASW aircraft built for Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.


 

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Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Have more people walked on the moon than have walked across the back of a TSR2?


 

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Whilst the RAF is saying goodbye to the mighty Hercules, the Super Hercules C-130J-30 has a bright future with the Franco-German airlift squadron


 

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U.S. Navy aircraft of Carrier Air Group 4 (CVG-4) on the snow covered flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) during operations in the North Atlantic on 29 June 1943.


 

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SOC-3 Seagull aircraft stripped for maintenance in the hangar of light cruiser USS Savannah, 1938.


 

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Thursday, 13 July 2023

Fairey Gannet AEW3 XL497. Its last sea posting was with HMS Ark Royal, remnants of which can be seen either side


 

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Goodyear Corsair FG-D 9 (G-FGID).


 

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Heinkel he111.


 

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Saturday, 8 July 2023

The largest Allied flying boat to enter production, the Martin JRM Mars, first flew on (June 21) 1942. Only seven of these MASSIVE aircraft were produced.



 

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H-46 Sea Knight aerial replenishment helicopter.


 

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Rows and rows of engines and B-17 Flying Fortresses as far as the eye can almost see in the background awaiting their fates from Kingman, AZ


 

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Spitfire tipping a V1 wing to set it off target. WWII 1940.


 

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Sunday, 2 July 2023

On this day in 1959, the first Sea Vixen fighter squadron, 892 NAS commissioned at RNAS Yeovilton. The Vixen followed the Venom and served until 1972. It was the first @RoyalNavy aircraft with guided weapons instead of guns.


 

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Handley Page Victor, with crew on standby during the Cold War, and a Victor on sentry duty outside RAF Marham, Norfolk.

 

  • Bartini-Beriev-VVA-14. Only 2 ever made.The aircraft's first flight was held on 4 September 1972. At that time, the prototype would not yet be equipped with a pontoon for water landing. The addition of the pontoon allowed the VVA-14 to land in the sea. In addition, aircraft can efficiently hover along the surface of the water. The VVA-14 has two turbojet engines in addition to 12 turbofan engines. The aircraft logged a total of 103 flight hours over 107 times before the project was canceled following Bartini's death.
     
  • Yokosuka E1Y3 Type 14 Reconnaissance Seaplane. 1930.
     
  • Coulson Flying Tankers - C-FLYL.
     

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