1957: The McDonnell F-101B Voodoo, the two-seat version of the original Voodoo, flies for the first time.

 

After 70 years at the bottom of Lake Murray, South Carolina, and lifted in 2005, the WW2 B-25 Marauder was salvaged.

 

B-2 assembly line.

 

A different view of a Blackbird, did you know in order to access the engines the outer wings could be swung up?

 

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

 

The underside of a B-24L with bomb doors open, and loaded. 1945.

 

C5 following a F22.

 

The XB-70 flew so fast it stripped paint off the aircraft.

 

X-29 during a September 1991 research flight. Smoke generators in the nose of the aircraft were used to help researchers see the behavior of the air flowing over the aircraft.

 

C-130 Refueling Two F-35 Lightning IIs.

 

New F-15 EX Eagle.

 

Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina patrol plane in flight, 6 September 1940.

 

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.

 

Boeing KC-135R Stratotankers.

 

Pensacola Beach Pier hosting 730mph Blue Angel F/A-18A Hornet,

 

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress.

 

USAF Cessna A-37B Dragonfly.

 

US F-35.

 

McDonnell CF-6 KC-10 Travis Air Force Base, and a Lockheed Jet Star behind.

 

During the third supersonic test flight, on October 1964, the paint of the XB-70 was torn off in entire patches on nearly 15% of the planes surface.