US Navy Blue Angels this year.

 

This photo is based on a stunt performed by former RAF and Red Arrows pilot Ray Hanna in a Spitfire in 1988 in Winston, North Yorkshire. It was shot for the BBC series, "A Piece of Cake."

 

Army UH-60 Black Hawk being unloaded from a C-5 Galaxy, Afghanistan 2013.

 

Northrop Grumman designed and built the XRQ-73 SHEPARD Hybrid Electric Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) X-Plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

 

Indo-French Rafale.

 

Defence Equipment and Support has placed a £176M order for further batch of Lightweight Multi Role Missiles with Thales UK in Belfast. They will equip Wildcat helicopters (known as the Martlet missile in RN service) and provide short-range air defence for the Army. Hundreds of LMMs have already been gifted to Ukraine where they have been successfully used to destroy Russian targets.

 

The Payen PA-22 was a French experimental aircraft designed by Nicolas-Roland Payen. While being tested in a wind tunnel at Chalais-Meudon (Paris), the Germans invaded France and confiscated it. The German occupation forces were intrigued by the design and completed the wind tunnel testing.

 

Royal Navy Crowsnest-equipped Merlin Mk2.

 

Harrier demonstrated At Brazilian Air Force base, Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. The building is a hangar from the Zepellin era and it's still in use. The Hawker Siddeney/British Aerospace Harrier, informally known as the 'Jump Jet', was one fixed wing aircraft that could literally 'Jump' and touch the skies. Of all the attempts the world's aircraft designers tried to make a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capable fixed wing aircraft, the British Harrier was the most successful as it actually entered service in significant numbers rather than being a temperamental one off or only a handful made research aircraft. The Harrier was the most successful VTOL fighter that showed the way when it was first introduced during the 1960's. Even today's American Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter isn't fully VTOL capable, and is considered more of an Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft.

 

Dassault Rafale B of the French Air Force.

 

Convair B-58 Hustler.

 

French AF Douglas AD4N Skyraider.

 

U.S. Navy sailors prepare an E-2C Hawkeye for flight operations on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, Pacific Ocean, Feb. 9, 2009.

 

Three Eurofighters of the German Air Force flew over the German Navy frigate Baden-Württemberg during the RIMPAC 24 exercise.

 

Fleet Air Arm 853 NAS FM 2 Martlets aboard HMS Tracker 1944.

 

Super Hornet on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

 

Super Hornet on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

 

More than fifty F-15 Strike Eagles lined up, and B52-H, Stratofortress aircraft.

 

The oldest surviving airworthy Fairy Swordfish takes to the skies for the Navy Wings UK event at RNAS Yeovilton.

 

Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon.

 

Vertically stacked engines and over wing fuel tanks, fitted to this Lightning

 

Cirrus G2 Vision Jet.

 

RAF ZM412 Airbus A400M Atlas C.1