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thesixthduke · 5 months
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Spitfire pilots of No. 43 Squadron RAF keeping warm in their dispersal hut at Drem airfield, East Lothian.
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theworldatwar · 7 months
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The rear gunner of an RAF Lancaster bomber watches the sky for enemy fighters as they head out on another mission - date and location unknown
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usaac-official · 6 days
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Mechanics and armorers prepare a Catalina Mk I of No. 202 Squadron for a mission while moored near Gibraltar
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colonellickburger · 2 months
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Bert Hardy. African RAF Man, London 1949 (Picture Post 4825 – Is There A British Colour Bar?)
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nocternalrandomness · 7 months
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Hawker Typhoons - RAF 56 SQDN - 1943
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sabotpetal · 18 days
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English Electric Lightning firing a Red Top air to air missile
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texasaggie-seaknight · 2 months
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Jake Dixon…
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theworldofwars · 2 months
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150 Squadron (RAF) officers in front of one of their Bristol M.1c monoplane scout aircraft.
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sepiadays · 4 months
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The Hawker P.V.3 was a proposed replacement for the Hawker Fury using the Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine. The Goshawk was a failure and thus so were all the aircraft based around it, but just as Supermarine's effort with the Goshawk would lead to the Spitfire, so too would the P.V.3 teach Hawker lessons incorporated in the Hurricane.
These photos were taken sometime between 1933 and 1935, most likely at Brooklands.
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RAF Lightning of 5 Sqn on supersonic approach to intercept Soviet Tupolev bomber
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carbone14 · 7 months
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Réplique du planeur Airspeed AS. 51 Horsa – Mémorial Pegasus – Ranville – Calvados – Février 2008
Photograhe : Fodfish
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theworldatwar · 2 months
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American volunteer pilots from ‘Eagle Squadron’ scramble to their Hawker Hurricanes at RAF Kirton in Lindsey air base - Lincolnshire, England, March 1941
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usaac-official · 1 month
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A Fortress I (B-17C) of 90 Squadron RAF at Polebrook, likely 1941
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boanerges20 · 1 year
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British Heavy Bomber Lancaster's Gunner WWII.
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nocternalrandomness · 2 months
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Display at the Yorkshire Air Museum of a tail gunner in an RAF Avro Lancaster Bomber during WW2
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thepotentialof2007 · 2 months
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Lewis Hamilton's height being measured live on camera in 2013
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