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The new Boeing Apache AH-64E helicopter ZM714 Army Air Corps (British Army) Based at Wattisham Suffolk UK
Photo taken Wattisham operational Army Airfield in Suffolk UK
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Grumman F7F Tigercat N700F Tail Code (D3) US Navy Here Kitty Kitty 80390 USN 80390 USN
The first flight by a Tigercat was on the 2 November 1943,Tigercat was fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps USMC from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engine fighter to be deployed by the USN
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2022
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Grumman F7F Tigercat N700F Tail Code (D3) US Navy Here Kitty Kitty US Navy Here Kitty Kitty NX700F
Grumman F7F Tigercat NX700F Tail Code (D3) 80390 USN
Called Here Kitty Kitty The first flight by a Tigercat was on the 2 November 1943
Tigercat was fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps USMC from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engine fighter to be deployed by the USN
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2022
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 8th Oct 2022 Flying Finale Show
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK 3rd July 2021 one of Duxfords Flying Days Shows
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with several different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 5th Aug 2021
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK 30th April 2021
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The new Boeing Apache AH-64E helicopter ZM714 Army Air Corps (British Army) Based at Wattisham Suffolk UK
Photo taken Wattisham operational Army Airfield in Suffolk UK
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To my good Flickr friend HawkeyePilot, thanks for sharing all of your fabulous aviation photographs. This ones for you!
North American T-28 Trojan NX289RD 140576
The military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Another trip out at the beginning of April to the Cotswolds to try and see the Barn Owl.
It was a long search and wait before a Barn Owl made an appearance.
The Barn Owl stayed fairly distant, This is a large crop.
Barn Owls are birds of prey, hunting and catching small mammals, mostly Field Voles here in the UK.
The Barn Owl is a very distinctive species of Owl, with an iconic ‘facial disc’, white face and underside, and light brown and grey feathers on the back of its head and its back.
Grumman F7F Tigercat N700F Tail Code (D3) US Navy Here Kitty Kitty 80390 USN 80390 USN
The first flight by a Tigercat was on the 2 November 1943,Tigercat was fighter aircraft that served with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps USMC from late in World War II until 1954. It was the first twin-engine fighter to be deployed by the USN
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2022
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadrons but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 25th June 2023 Summer Air Show
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folks, I got called back to work a week earlier..picked up the company BBJ2 from Los Angeles and flew it to Riyadh via Keflavik,Iceland...cheers
This shot has become my most liked over on Instagram in the last day or two....AND now it's my most viewed and faved picture on Flickr! Thank you all
RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at Heveningham Hall Country Show on the 2nd July 2022
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Nikkormat FTn w/Nikkor 50mm f 2.0 Prime
Dulles International
Washington Dulles International Airport (/'d?l?s/ DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) is an international airport in the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia, 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C.[3]
Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles (1888–1959),[4][5] the 52nd Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi; 52.6 km2)[1] straddling the Loudoun-Fairfax line.[6] Most of the airport is in the unincorporated community of Dulles in Loudoun County, with a small portion in the unincorporated community of Chantilly in Fairfax County. The airport serves the Washington metropolitan area.
Dulles is one of the three major airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area with more than 21 million passengers a year.[7][8] Dulles has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area, including approximately 90% of the international passenger traffic in the Baltimore-Washington region.[9] On a typical day, more than 60,000 passengers pass through Dulles to and from more than 125 destinations around the world.[7][10] Dulles Airport has recently surpassed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in monthly passenger boardings and is on pace to exceed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's annual passenger numbers for 2018 after having fewer passengers ever since 2015.[11] However, Dulles Airport still ranks behind Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger boardings, despite being a larger facility with more gates.
History
Origins
Prior to World War II, Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington, on the site now occupied by The Pentagon and its parking lots. It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital.[12] Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region.[13] The initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park, but protests from residents, as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time, led to reconsideration of this plan.[14] One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County, while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland into an airport.[12]
The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958;[14] the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada, who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result of the site selection, the unincorporated, largely African-American community of Willard, which once stood in the airport's current footprint, was demolished, and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned.[12]
Dulles was also built over a lesser known airport named Blue Ridge Airport, chartered in 1938 by the U.S.. The airport was Loudoun County's first official airport consisting of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X". The location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today.[15][better source needed]
Design and original construction
Dulles Airport in 1970
The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17, 1962.[4][5] As originally opened, the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C, 1R/19L, and 12/30). Its original name, Dulles International Airport, was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport.[16]
The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, and it is highly regarded for its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight. In the 1990s, the main terminal at Dulles was reconfigured to allow more space between the front of the building and the ticket counters. Additions at both ends of the main terminal more than doubled the structure's length. The original terminal at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan was modeled after the Saarinen terminal at Dulles.
The design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect rainwater, a low-rise hotel, and a row of office buildings along the north side of the main parking lot. The design also included a two-level road in front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the Capital Beltway (I-495) about 17 miles (27 km) to the east. (Eventually, the highway system grew to include a parallel toll road to handle commuter traffic and an extension to connect to I-66). The access road had a wide median strip to allow the construction of a passenger rail line, which will be in the form of an extension of the Washington Metro's Silver Line and is expected to be completed in 2020.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Dulles_International_Air...
RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 9th Oct 2021
Flying Day Show
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Carrying out a 180° turn on the end of runway 23 at Cambridge Airport ahead of departure as 'Marshall 09', this highly modified Bombardier BD-700 Global 6000 is one of two examples destined for the UAE Air Force. Now looking distinctly different to when it first arrived as M-ABFR, 1326 has flown several test flight around the South East of the UK during the first phase of development at the hands of Marshalls Aerospace & Defence Group.
© Samuel Pilcher 2018. Use of this image without permission is prohibited.
RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK
30th April 2021
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadrons but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 25th June 2023 Summer Air Show
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
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RAF Westland Puma HC.2 XW224 Helicopter in 50th Anniversary Markings
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK 7th July 2021
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1716 Colnbrook Baa Logistics to Grain Bp. Bit of a grab shot not knowing where the loco was going to stop.
Shot at Grain BP.
Flying KAI T-50 training aircraft they performed a number of large formations...we got the short display, they do a much longer veriosn we got to see at RIAT a week later...
Boeing Agusta Westland WAH-64D Apache Helicopter ZJ198 Army Air Corps (British Army) Based at Wattisham Suffolk UK
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire
At one of there Flying Day Shows on the 4th Aug 2021
Wattisham airfield was opened in 1939 and used by the RAF as a Bomber base flying Bristol Blenheim Bombers in 1942 it was handed over to the USAAF for the rest of WWII and P-38 Lightning’s and the P-51 Mustang’s use to fly from the base
After WWII the base was handed back to the RAF and other aircraft to have been stationed at Wattisham include Meteors, Hawker Hunters including the Black Arrows formation team, English Electric Lightnings, Gloster Javelin and the McDonnell Douglas Phantoms In 1993 the base was handed over to the Army
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 3rd Aug 2021
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RAF Supermarine Spitfire LF MkVb Spitfire EP120 G-LFVB AE-A 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
Aircraft was constructed in 1942 at the castle Bromwich factory in the UK and has served with sevral different squadron’s but while serving with 501 squadron scored 6 of its confirmed kills with squadron leader Geoffrey Northcott as the pilot.
Aircraft is now in the colours of 402 Squadron City of Winnipeg RCAF
From 1968 to 1989 the Spitfire was a Gate Guardian at RAF Wattisham, I used to go past this most days from 1971 as I used to work on the Base
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 9th Oct 2021
Flying Day Show
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