The Royal Navy’s anti-submarine sentry – the Towed Array Patrol Ship's, Type 23 and Merlin .

 

M2-F1 NASA Manned Experimental Airplane. The NASA M2-F1 was a lightweight, unpowered prototype aircraft, developed to flight-test the wingless lifting body concept. Its unusual appearance earned it the nickname "flying bathtub" and was designated the M2-F1, the M referring to "manned", and F referring to "flight" version. In 1962, NASA Dryden management approved a program to build a lightweight, unpowered lifting-body prototype. It featured a plywood shell placed over a tubular steel frame crafted at Dryden. Construction was completed in 1963.

 

This Bristol Freighter 170 Mk 31 made history as the first wheeled aircraft to land at the North Pole on May 6, 1967. Captained by Don Braun. The aircraft was retired shortly after in early 1968.

 

English Electric Lightnings.

 

RAF English Electric Canberra, all weather fighter.

 

The B-42 production line in 1943, when one was rolling off every hour.

 

SBD-5 circling over USS Enterprise CV-6 during operations in the Central Pacific, March 1944.

 

MH-47 Chinook.

 

U.S. Air Force B-26 Invaders releasing quarter ton ordnance in a strike over North Korea, 18 October 1951.

 

Scrambling a Handley Page Victor during the Cold War in the 50's.

 

A British Spitfire, about to flip the wing of a German V-1 flying bomb in order to knock the gyroscope off balance and change its trajectory away from London.

 

Philippine Mars after being towed out of Lake Pleasant last week.

 

English Electric Lightning F1, Coltishall. Late 60's.

 

A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter will be embarked on Norwegian frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen for the 8-month duration of the CSG25 deployment.

 

The Beriev Be-12 "Chayka" ( English - Seagull) an amphibious ASW aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet above Black Sea. This is a rare aircraft and there are only a few units left in service.

 

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II, ZM 168, in a hangar at RAF Marham.

 

Merlin Mk2 of 820 NAS over Loch Long this afternoon with dipping sonar deployed.

 

Captured enemy aircraft at the Farnborough exhibition October/November 1945.

 

DC-4’s left at Gila River Memorial Airport as well as a few other aircraft. Built in 1942

 

On this day in 1969, the first Concorde supersonic transport, Concorde 001, made its inaugural flight. The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years.