E-2D Advanced Hawkeye ready for launch aboard USS HARRY S TRUMAN.

 

Sailors aboard USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) refuel an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from HSC6 during FLTOPS in the Pacific Ocean. USS Curtis Wilbur is underway in the US 3rd Fleet conducting routine operations.

 

E/A-18G Growler from the "Cougars" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 18, 2025.

 

USS Nebraska (SSBSn 739) under the escort of US Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II close air support aircraft

 

A look back to January 1971 with a S2E Tracker ready for launch as the steam rises from the catapult of USS Intrepid (CVS11) during carrier qualification trials off the coast of Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

 

Crash landing in North Wales in 1942, this Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft is now protected almost permanently by nature! Nature has uncovered the plane just three times since it crash landed, once in the 1970s, once in 2007 and again the most recent was in 2014. The exact location of the aircraft remains confidential to protect the plane, it remains there today.

 

KC-10A Extender refuelling a F-4E Phantom II, Jan 29, 1990.

 

Standing as tall as a six story building, nearly the length of a football field, and with a maximum takeoff weight of close to a million pounds, the C-5M Super Galaxy is massive, and plays an important role in operations around the world.

 

A4F 155064 from VF-126 (1991)

 

US Marines with Marine Transport Squadron 1, in HH-46E Sea Knight helicopters.

 

Fat Albert C-130J Super Hercules.

 

Multiple U.S. Air Force assets, including B-52 bombers, F-15 fighter jets, and A-10 attack aircraft, hit 75 Islamic State targets in Syria in a massive round of strikes.

 

EA-6B Prowler.

 

Douglas SBD-5 bombers in flight, 12 November 1943. Look like it could be USS Enterprise CV-6 in the background.

 

B-52H Stratofortress receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the UK 2023.

 

USAF lost a staggering 334 F-105 Thunderchiefs (40% of the total production) in combat over North Vietnam? An F-105 pilot was shot down once every 65 missions.

 

Convair PB2Y-3 7045 at NAS Pax River, Maryland, 5 September 1944.

 

US Navy McDonnall F-4J-34-MC Phantom II. 1978.

 

Boeing E-7 Wedgetail is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation design.

 

A flight of Vought SB2u Vindicator's.