The Douglas/McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a lightweight, single engine, single pilot combat jet which performed its first flight on June 22, 1954. Intended as an aircraft carrier-based attack jet, it was built ruggedly...
A Royal Canadian Air Force CC-137 tanker/transport departs during an Ottawa air show weekend. Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW) serves Canada’s National Capital Region, sometimes known as Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area. The airport is serviced...
So, do you like to browse through photo albums? Here are a number of military helicopter photographs from our collections of airshows and exercises. Some types are retired from use, some are still on...
Here’s a large group of military aircraft whose main duty was to gather information… photographic and/or electronic, or gather information about other military assets in the area. You can either hover over the photo...
As the Boeing 707 and 717 models of the 1950s matured, the shorter 717 was renamed as the C-135 for the U.S. Air Force. Numerous versions of the C-135 were used as aerial tankers,...
1941 Interstate S-1A-65F, one of Kent Pietsch’s air show aircraft. Here’s the last of our three-volume collection of Antique and Classic aircraft. Some of these are former military aircraft, others were built for the...
The United States operates a number of military aviation aggressor squadrons. Branches that have aviation units dedicated as adversarial training assets include the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. There are a number of...
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Blue Angels have retired all of their Legacy aircraft during the 2020 calendar year. Gone is the Marines KC-130T “Fat Albert Airlines” transport, as well as the F/A-18A/B/C/D...
Originally designed as a single seat fighter with a secondary bomber role, the French Dassault Mirage family of aircraft was expanded to include advanced fighter-interceptors and pure bomber variants. A pair of these bomber...
1949 Cessna 195 All of these aircraft pictured below were manufactured between 1943 and 1970. World history during this time frame begins in the middle of World War II, through to the year man...
1943 Beech D17S Staggerwing All of these aircraft were manufactured between 1928 and 1943. World history during this time frame included the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. What’s interesting to...
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy has one of the largest T-tails in the world. A readily recognizable spotting trait for aircraft all over the world is the tail configuration. In particular, the T-tail design brings...
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