Random Cool Photo Thread

[Pa12]

Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk IIIs ( depart from Medenine Tunisia on a sortie.
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Even though the p-40 was lacking in some respects I love it.

 

[FlakMagnet]

“Australian Beaufighter Mk.21 (A8-328) finished its RAAF career as a target tug in 1956. Disposed, it ended up as an outdoors attraction at the playground of the Lord Mayor of Melbourne’s Children’s Camp in Portsea, Victoria until 1962. By then a sad badly deteriorated derelict, A8-328 was saved by the Australian Aircraft Restoration Group and gorgeously restored. It now resides at the Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin Airport, Victoria.”

 

[flyincowboy]

D DAY 80TH BIRTHDAY !!! Frenchman offering a glass of wine to an American soldier!!

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Madison LMG imported by Qing Dynasty military.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

 

[FlakMagnet]

F-15 in French livery when McDonnell Douglas was trying to sell the planes to the Armee de l’air in 1976

 

[John Lever]

 

[Thomas Koehle]

All photos with Tommy-Guns

 

[Thomas Koehle]

G1 jackets and earlier variants

 

[Thomas Koehle]

 

[B-Man2]

The ingenuity of the front line soldier.
The coke can elevates the ammo belt to let it feed into the gun without any hang ups .

 

[FlakMagnet]

“USS Lexington (CV-6) gasoline crew relax around a jeep flight deck tractor, during a lull in flight deck operations. Taken during the Gilberts operation, Nov 1943.”

 

[Micawber]

Original wartime caption: When an American aircraft crashed on an R.A.F. Fighter Command airfield recently, a 21 year old W.A.A.F. Transport Drive, Leading Aircaftwoman Phyllis Day of 43 Cody Close, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, jumped into a Jeep and raced through dense fog across the airfield to the scene. Although the aircraft was blazing fiercely, live ammunition was exploding and bombs in the fire were likely to go off at any minute, she directed rescue operations until a crash tender and ambulance arrived. Leading Aircraftwoman Day is one of several W.A.A.F. drivers at a Fighter Command airfield on the South Coast, who with jeeps, guide aircraft to a parking place. Picture (issued 1945) shows - Leading Aircraftwoman Phyllis Day driving a jeep to guide a bomber which had made an emergency landing on a Fighter Command airfield. 15th April 1945.

IWM Caption and Photo

 

[FlakMagnet]

Swiss Hawker Hunters taking off from highways is pretty incredible

 

[Micawber]

Swiss Hawker Hunters taking off from highways is pretty incredible

One of my favourite jet aircraft that just looks right from any angle.

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Swiss Hawker Hunters taking off from highways is pretty incredible

The classic, beautiful lines of the Hunter.
And Switzerland's motorway system is a long aeroplane runway where they allow cars to transit as well.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Source: Life magazine, 1945. What interest is, those are commie propaganda materials. Only two years later, Life magazine starting publish pro-ROC materials.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Caption:
“"100 Years of Flight"

Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker
59-1471 - 91471
116th Air Refueling Squadron "Ace of Spades"
141st Air Refueling Wing
U.S. AIR FORCE
Fairchild AFB, Washington
VR1350 Low Level Route
Spring 2024

© Edward P. Sarber - Precision Photography”

 

[FlakMagnet]

UH-1 of No. 3 Squadron RNZAF was left on the top of the Tasman Glacier after developing engine problems (April 1996)

 

[Pa12]

Buddy sent me this picture. Run up testing a new global 5500 at Bombardier. Ouch.