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Thursday, 30 May 2024

Rusting Mig 23 Soviet aircraft in its shelter.


 

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The line up of Fleet Air Arm aircraft at RNAS Mill Meece / HMS Fledgling in 1943/44. The facility was used to train WRNS Air Mechanics (Ordnance) on FAA types: Shown here is a Seafire Mkl, front, and a Corsair with a Martlet in the middle ground.


 

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A NASA Convair CV-990


 

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Saturday, 25 May 2024

A veteran Sea King helicopter has been installed as a ‘gate guardian’ at RNAS Yeovilton, according to a press release. The Sea King ZF118, callsign ‘Victor Oscar VO’, served the Commando Helicopter Force for nearly 30 years.


 

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Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion.


 

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Kawanishi N1K1 Japanese sea plane fighter.


 

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Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Dart-Stang, ex RAAF CA-18 Mustang Mk. 22, with a Rolls Royce Dart 510 turboprop from a Vickers Viscount to power it.

 

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HUGE: the Tu-95's contra-rotating propellers are 5.6 meters in diameter, and their tips break the sound barrier as the rotate making them extremely loud. They are driven by 15,000 hp NK-12 turboprop engines.


 

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Navy's Type 42 destroyer HMS Newcastle (D-87) with a Project 1134A Berkut-A/Kresta II-class guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (697), north of Norway, 1985. Westland Lynx from Royal Navy's Type 42 destroyer HMS Newcastle (D-87) with a Project 1134A Berkut-A/Kresta II-class guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (697), north of Norway, 1985.


 

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View of a crashed U.S. Navy Boeing-Vertol UH-46D Sea Knight on the fantail of the ammunition ship USS Suribachi (AE-21). The helicopter experienced a mechanical faliure during an ammunition offload from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off Virginia (USA), in September 1992. Only one crewman was injured.


 

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Saturday, 18 May 2024

USMC CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter transported an F-35C Lightning II airframe from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River (Pax ITF) to a Navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 24.


 

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A retired Sea Harrier jump jet and Lynx are on an 8,000-mile journey to become centrepieces of a new museum in the Falklands. A retired Sea Harrier (FA2) and Lynx (upgraded to Mk8) helicopter are being transferred to a museum in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands as the centrepiece of a new exhibition hall. Lynx XZ725 saw action in the 1982 conflict. Flying from HMS Brilliant, she was involved in the sinking of the Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe. The aircraft will be loaded on a ship at Marchwood for delivery to the Falklands.


 

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United States Coast Guard Aerospatiale MH-65C Dolphin 6561.


 

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USAF F-15E Strike Eagle


 

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Boeing CH-47 Chinook


 

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Sunday, 12 May 2024

Last Martin JRM Mars was sold to Tucson Museum.

 

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A Chinook squeezes onto the aircraft lift on HMS Prince of Wales 31/1/22.


 

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F-18 Super Hornet.


 

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A US Air Force KC-46A Pegasus conducts tanker-receiver aerial refueling compatibility testing with a US Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye over Patuxent River in Maryland on April 15.


 

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Friday, 10 May 2024

Short Sunderland MK.III.


 

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Tuesday, 7 May 2024

Six Avro Vulcan B.2 of No, 617 squadron and six Handley Page Victor B,2, RAF Scampton.


 

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An E-2C Hawkeye


 

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French AF Douglas AD4N Skyraider.




 

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Russian Tu-95 bomber.


 

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MC-130J Air Commando II conducts air-to-air refueling with an MH-60 Black Hawk.


 

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Thursday, 2 May 2024

Japan - Air Self Defence Force Kawasaki EC-1 78-1021. The only one ever made.


 

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The X-47B aboard USS Harry S. Truman.


 

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Italian Macchi C.205 Veltro.


 

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Chinese Chengdu JH-21 Ground Attack Aircraft.


 

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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.
     
  • Soviet AN-225. Who said size does not matter!
     

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