Aviation News and Photos with David Arkwright
Military and Civilian
Labels
Civilian
Commonwealth Air Forces
FAA
Fleet Air Arm
Fleet Air Arm/RAF.
Joint Forces.
RAF
RAF.
RAF/ US Navy.
RAF/Civilian
RAF/USAF
US Air Force
US Air Forces
US Air Forces.
USA Air Force
USA Air Forces
USCG
USN
World Air Force
World Air Force.
World Air Forces
Friday, 29 December 2023
Area 51 of US Air Force.
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.
Thursday, 28 December 2023
de Havilland Mosquito.
HMS Endurance (A-171), the Fighting Plum. The only British ship on station during the 1982 Argentine Invasion, she would evade capture and eventually damaged an enemy submarine with her WASP helicopters.
The Handley Page Victor: A Cold War Legacy.
Sunday, 24 December 2023
There are just 11 years between the first flights of these two aircraft, the Avro Lancaster in 1941 & Avro Vulcan in 1952. What makes it more incredible is that they were designed by the same man, Mr Roy Chadwick (1893-1947).
French Rafale.
Saab J35'S. A total of 651 Drakens were manufactured in six different versions.
HMS Endurance (A-171), the Fighting Plum. The only British ship on station during the 1982 Argentine Invasion, she would evade capture and eventually damaged an enemy submarine with her WASP helicopters.
This Is Why The A-10 Warthog Is One Of The Scariest Military Planes.
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
English Electric Lightning.
Boeing AH-64 Apache and its arsenal.
The McDonnell XP-67 was a high-performance, long-range fighter with unparalleled armament. Resulted in Under performance.
Line up of F4 Phantoms.
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
USS South Dakota's crew preparing to recover a Vought OS2U Kingfisher seaplane, 1943, North Atlantic.
Lancaster B.III, bomber above an overcast sky in early February 1944, a few days after being received by 619 Squadron at Coningsby, Lincolnshire. The aircraft was later lost during an attack on the Gnome-Rhone engine factory at Gennevilliers, France, during the night of 9/10 May 1944 .
Arriving at Langley from Edwards Air Force Base, Califorina in 1960, this Vertol VZ-2 (Model 76) underwent almost a year and a half of flight research before going back to the manufacturer for rework. The VZ-2 was used to investigate Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL).
A B-52 bomber with its conventional weapons. The Air Force stripped nuclear capabilities from some 30 B-52 bombers.
The fuselage of a TBF Avenger torpedo-bomber dropped by crane into the waters of the St. Johns River near Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida, served to train aviators and aircrewman ditching procedures.
Sunday, 3 December 2023
A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter conducts wet hoist training with HMCS Vancouver during Exercise SAMA SAMA in the Philippine Sea, October 11th, 2023.
Friday, 1 December 2023
On this day in 1912, the first US Navy airplane pilot, Lt. Theodore Ellyson tests the C-1, the Navy’s first flying boat, at Hammondsport, New York.
Newer Posts
Older Posts
Home
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
USN C2A Greyhound departing from Prestwick Airport returning to the USS Harry S. Truman (Carrier transiting from the North Sea on through the Channel her way to the Mediterranean)
The first VC10 is nearing completion alongside a BEA Vanguard in the Flight Hangar at Weybridge. 1962.
Consolidated TBY-2 Sea Wolf. 1945.
Vultee Aircraft Co. Vultee Vengeance assembly line in the 1940's.