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80 Squadron RFC.
A great collection of uniforms and flying clothing of the period.
80 Sqdn served on the Western Front in 1917-8 In the ground attack role.
The Arras Flying Services Memorial.
In the cemetery stands this unusual memorial to the fliers of WW1. The three services of the war are all represented: The Royal Naval Air Service, The Royal Flying Corps and of course the Royal Airforce.
The most notable name on the memorial is that of Edward 'Mick' Mannock, Britain's top ace of the war. Another name, less well known, but influential in the early years of the war is Lanoe Harker, who with seven victories just qualified as an ace. He fought in the very early years of the war before arms technology had caught up with the aviation leaps and bounds.
He was the first Commonwealth ace and attached a Lewis gun to his plane after taking shots with rifles. He even attacked a Zeppelin yard with hand grenades dropped manually!
He was to meet his match however when he became the eleventh victim of the greatest ace of the war, Manfred von Richthofen.
In all, 990 men are commemorated on the memorial, all with a tale to be told, and all early victims of a new and adventurous theatre of war. Sadly for them the adventure was to be short lived.
Catalog #: 02-M-00276
Last Name: McColpin
First Name: Carroll
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Edited United States Air Force image of an Australian Air Force F-35A in Arizona (for training purposes). Color/processing variant.
Original caption: The sun sets behind an Australian F-35A Lighting II at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., June 27, 2018. The first Australian F-35 arrived at Luke AFB in December, 2014. Currently, six Australian F-35's are assigned to the 61st Fighter Squadron where their pilots train alongside U.S. Air Force pilots. *Editor’s Note: The reflection in this photo was manufactured by the photographer using a specific technique outside of the lens before capturing the image. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jensen Stidham)
During Sanicole Airshow 2017 the Saudi Hawks performed a ~20min demonstration. Here you can see them while aligning back to the airfield for their Demonstration!
From the Postcrossing "Just Postcards" RR # 2394.
Stamp commemorating A.C. Khlobystov. I could not find out much info on Google, but I think this is Alexei (or Alexey) Stepanovich Khlobystov, a WWII P-40 fighter pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union. Over his short career (he was killed in action in 1943), he claimed three German aircraft kills by intentionally ramming them in the air. The story of his first two kills is thus: In a dogfight near Murmansk, Khlobystov, flying a P-40 Tomahawk, aerial rammed German aircraft two times in a single engagement. He cut off the tail assembly of one Messerschmitt in an overtaking maneuver and severed a portion of the wing of a second Messerschmitt. Both times he struck the enemy aircraft with the same right wing panel. Both Messerschmitts went down, whereas the Tomahawk landed safely at its airfield, minus most of a wing, which was repaired without any particular difficulty. Khlobystov did not suffer even a scratch. The drawing on the stamp illustrates this encounter.
Capt. Samuel Harms, 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron pilot, prepares to park an F-16 Fighting Falcon, July 16, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. More than 300 Airmen from the 169th Fighter Wing of the South Carolina Air National Guard recently deployed to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dana J. Cable)
The plane in he picture is a C3605, the only ever Swiss build fighter. It was used by the Swiss Air Force in the 40's and 50's and has been used still in the 90's as a target tower. The one in the picture is the only one flying in the world.
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Hurd Hatfield as Anthony Fokker and John Phillip Law as the Red Baron, in the 1971 motion-picture classic Von Richthofen and Brown. In this scene, Law (the Baron) is about to become righteously indignant uttering the lines — "I am a soldier... I have thirty men fighting for their lives... I WILL NOT STAND DOWN!"
Of course, I can't resist a movie with the name "von Richthofen" in the title ! :)
Codi von Richthofen,
The Red Baron Gallery ©
Catalog #: 02-O-00009
Last Name: O'Brien
First Name: Capt Bill
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Brighton Station,
Sussex, England.
23 (or 24) March 1963
Es SR BB 4-6-2 Fighter Pilot - withdrawn June 1963.
63C011_12
Aircraft information ℹ️
Air force ℹ️
( @usarmy )
Aircraft type ️
( @beechcraft C-12U-3 Huron )
Aircraft reg ℹ
( 84-00165 )
Date 📆
( 21st October 2024 )
Camara
( @canonuk 2000D )
Lens
( 150-600mm )
🚨 pictures are @j.ede_photography 🚨
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill 1958.
The story of Douglas Bader, who lost both legs in an aviation accident, however with extraordinary determination, overcame the disability and flew fighters in World War II. He was captured by the Germans but survived to train others.
The Cadet version of the book for children.
Published by Collins London. Green cloth boards with red dust jacket, 256 pages, 21cm x 14cm.
A presentation copy to Loquat Valley School in Sydney with author's inscription and signature.
Biographies.:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brickhill and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader