View allAll Photos Tagged fighter
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle (78-0492)
Unit: 123rd Fighter Squadron
Base: Oregon ANG - Portland Intl Airport, OR
These 4/F-15s are in the Denver area to do a fly-by for the USAF Academy football game on Sat (5 Sept 2009).
Website: One Mile High Photography
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OneMileHighPhotography
Worked on this the last couple of month. This thing is huge! I started to build an Elysian army. Enjoy!
Kafer Zaita, Syria: A civilian reacts as a fighter shoots at a circling attack helicopter. June 4, 2012.
OK, not to make fun, but this was pretty hilarious. The kid isn't reacting to the helo, he's reacting to the rifle shot.
Hundreds of Jet and war planes sit moth balled just outside Tucson Az. They fly in but some never leave again.My father & i were here in 2006 touring this place
Worked on this the last couple of month. This thing is huge! I started to build an Elysian army. Enjoy!
F-15J,7AW/305SQ,Japan air self defence force
,21st Oct.2012 Air base HYAKURI,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
Twin seater Jet. This is a work in progress. Not based on any real aircraft, just a random build, with features from real aircraft I liked the look of...looks a bit like a Jet trainer... maybe...
{"source":"editor","effects_tried":0,"photos_added":0,"origin":"gallery","total_effects_actions":0,"remix_data":[],"tools_used":{"tilt_shift":0,"resize":0,"adjust":0,"curves":0,"motion":0,"perspective":0,"clone":2,"crop":0,"enhance":0,"selection":0,"free_crop":0,"flip_rotate":0,"shape_crop":0,"stretch":0},"total_draw_actions":0,"total_editor_actions":{"border":0,"frame":0,"mask":0,"lensflare":0,"clipart":0,"text":0,"square_fit":0,"shape_mask":0,"callout":0},"entry_point":"create_flow_fte","total_editor_time":1929,"brushes_used":0,"total_draw_time":0,"effects_applied":0,"uid":"E9BC1F26-9729-411D-96CE-E57ABB7296A6_1505904831500","total_effects_time":0,"sources":[],"layers_used":0,"width":3546,"height":2364,"subsource":"done_button"}
Jet fighter Aero L-39 Albatros in the former NVA-Hangar on Peenemünde airport. The Cold War is back!
The Rolls-Royce Spitfire, PS853, is an unarmed, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, one of a batch of 79 Mk XIXs built at Supermarine, Southampton. The Mk XIX was powered by the 2,050 hp Griffon 65 or 66 and represents the pinnacle of the Spitfire’s development in terms of speed and altitude capability with a top speed of 446mph (730 km/h) and a ceiling of 42,000ft (12,800 m).
PS853 was delivered to the Central Photographic Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson on 13 January 1945, before moving to Belgium and Holland. The aircraft was engaged on active service with 16 Squadron up until the end of the war and participated in “Operation Crossbow” to detect V1 and V2 launch sites.
At the end of the war it remained on duty in Germany until March 1946 when it returned to the UK and was placed in storage. In 1950, PS853 was one of several Mk XIX Spitfires assigned to conduct meteorological research, known as the Temperature and Humidity of the Upper Air Masses (THUM) Flight. PS853 performed the last ever THUM sortie on 10 June 1957. Along with sister XIXs PM631 and PS915, PS853 retired into ceremonial and display duties to form the RAF’s Historic Aircraft Flight, the forerunner of today’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF). It spent less than a year with the HAF before being transferred to other duties. In 1963 PS853 was selected for a very special mission where it was used in combat trials with an English Electric Lightning at RAF Binbrook. After completing these trials PS853 was returned to the BBMF in 1964 where it remained until 1995.
In 1996, Rolls-Royce bought PS853 to replace the original Rolls-Royce Spitfire XIV, G-ALGT. The aircraft was re-registered as G-RRGN; the RR for obvious reasons and the GN after the drawing number prefix allocated to Griffon engine parts. The aircraft is painted as 'C' of No. 16 Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 2nd Tactical Air Force, being the identity PS853 wore during its wartime service.
The Rolls-Royce Spitfire, as PS853 is now popularly known, has become widely renowned as an ambassador for Rolls-Royce appearing at air displays and charity events as well as at our own corporate events. Not only does it represent the heritage of the Spitfire and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered them, it honours the pilots of all nations who flew them and the men and women who built and maintained them.
The aircraft is based in a dedicated hangar at East Midlands Airport, near Derby. It can be seen around the display circuit between April and October and during the winter months the aircraft undergoes an annual maintenance inspection programme.
In 2010, 65 years after its first delivery to RAF service, PS853 was taken out of service for its first major overhaul. The aircraft received full inspection and maintenance to all its structures and systems at the Aircraft Restoration Company and Historic Flying Limited at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. The first flight after restoration was on 9 October 2012 and PS853 was delivered back to Rolls-Royce in November 2012.
Unfortunately, the return to service was beset by an unfortunate accident on 7 January 2013, when the undercarriage was inadvertently retracted while on the runway at East Midlands. Fortunately it occurred at very low speed but left damage to the propeller, wings and fuselage. The pilot was unharmed and the aircraft was recovered with no further incident. The Spitfire was sent for repair at Duxford and returned to service some six months later. PS853’s first public display was part of a special thank you to the employees of Rolls-Royce when the Spitfire flew in formation over the Derby factories with the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the 8 August 2013.
This was a very fun MOC to build. I really wanted this to have a very unique shape when it was done. I think I achieved that. The outer engines went through several design phases. There was a lot of stud turning involved with this MOC. If you look closely you should be able to see it. I'm also considering shipping this to Legoland California for the Bothcon. Should I?
Catalog #: 10_0015953
Title: Fighter Aces Convention
Date: 1970-1979
Additional Information: Fighter Aces Convention
Tags: Fighter Aces Convention, Fighter Aces Convention, 1970-1979
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
My only complaint about the Lumix GF-1 is how it preferred to focus on people taking photos of the Foo Fighters rather than the Foo Fighters themselves.
Staff Sgt. Joe Coates, 177th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), New Jersey Air National Guard, opens a container of explosive cutting tape (ECT) during a joint render safe operation at Detachment 1, Warren Grove Gunnery Range, N.J., with EOD Airmen from the 514th Air Mobility Wing, Air Force Reserve, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., May 1, 2015. The ECT is used to cut through empty and concrete ordnance. Beginning on April 28, 2015, the EOD Airmen retrieved all the ordnance that was dropped at the Range during the past year, and on May 1, 2015, rendered safe – a controlled detonation operation – 30 inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bombs and two cartridges from BDU-33, 25 pound practice bombs, for later reclamation. Warren Grove Gunnery Range, which is operated by the 177th Fighter Wing, provides a training environment for all military and ground combat forces. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Here a scanned photo showing a MiG-29 air superiority fighter just after landing.
Taken in 1989 at Paris Air Show.
PRAKTICA MTL-50 35mm camera with 75-200 Soligor lens.
A model of a mix match Fighter Jet I've been working on, and off for the past couple of years, thought I would show it.