A USAF CV-22 operating from HMS Queen Elizabeth during CSG23.

 

GAU-8 Avenger The 30mm Monster Cannon That Powers The A-10 Warthog.

 

The FA-18EF Super Hornet entered fleet service in 1999, as the replacement for the F-14 Tomcat, and became the US first all-weather fighter and attack aircraft

 

Super Hornet takes-off from USS George Washington (CVN 73) during friends and family day in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 24, 2023.

 

A US Navy Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Bombing Squadron 63 (VPB-63) normally based across the Strait of Gibraltar at Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco overflying Gibraltar December of 1943.

 

Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic, French long-range maritime patrol aircraft.

 

Dornier 17Z of the Finnish Air Force. 1942.

 

Quick pitstop. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters can refuel in-flight from ships? Just like a pit crew, speed is key in getting it back out and patrolling the skies.

 

Grumman C-2 Greyhound.

 

Two US Navy Grumman F11F-1 Tiger fighters assigned to USS Intrepid (CV11), 1960.

 

The Mi-6. It first flew in 1957, and was a staggering 137 ft (42 meters) in length, and weighed 97,000 lbs (44,000 kg) fully loaded.

 

British Aircraft Corporation BAC 1-11 Series 401AK, used by Northrop Grumman as an airborne test bed for an F-16 nose cone? Who knows what is inside!

 

F-35Bs loaded with live Paveway IV laser/GPS-guided 500lb bombs on HMS QNLZ. Dropped during exercise on Swedish test ranges last week. UKCSG23.

 

NASA Super Guppy arrives to Beale Air Force Base, California, April 19, 2018.

 

The North American X-15, a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, made its first powered flight OTD (Sep 17) 1959.

 

The first VC10 is nearing completion alongside a BEA Vanguard in the Flight Hangar at Weybridge. 1962.

 

Supermarine Spitfire F24 of No. 80 Squadron, being ferried ashore, Hong Kong, July 1949.

 

Light Multi Role OV-10 Bronco.

 

Convair B-58 Hustler, showing just how far forward of the wing the engines are positioned.

 

U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver from Bombing Squadron 10 (VB-10), Carrier Air Group 10 (CVG-10), assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11), in flight over Tianjin, China, as the city is reoccupied by the Allies, 5 September 1945.