Vickers Wellington stripped to the bones, in Brooklands Museum.

 

On This Day in 1966, the first RoyalNavy F4-K Phantom made its first flight at the McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis. The Phantom would become the FAA interceptor throughout the '70s until HMS ARK ROYAL was retired. You can still see the exact same aircraft on display in the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

 

A flight of twelve Grumman Avenger torpedo-bombers over the South Pacific, 1943.

 

USN catapult crew members prepare to launch an A-7 Corsair II from the No. 2 catapult aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72).

 

An RNZAF Sunderland aircraft on patrol over Fiji.

 

Almaya, Cairo soon after the war. RAF heavy transport Avro York. Derived from the Lancaster and produced in small numbers (aprox 250) served in long distance roles, as VIP transport for Churchill or de Gaulle and later in the Berlin blockade. This is the personal unit of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, Cairo, Egypt, 1946.

 

Avro 504K H1966 of the RNZAF.