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Sunliners In East Tennessee
A trio of VFA-81 Super Hornets, recently stopped through McGhee-Tyson Airport for fuel. The jets had a nice collection of mission marks from their previous deployment.
(...) had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of battle would have been the same.
Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding
The Nail Driver - Draken International’s A-4K over the Fallon Ranges while supporting the the US Navy’s Joint Terminal Attack Controller training program. After successfully providing over four years of Close Air Support and JTAC training assets to the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the US Navy, Draken International has been awarded the follow-on Terminal Attack Controller Trainer Services Contract.
The TACT contract, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center, has a value of $250 million with a total ordering period of up to ten years. This new contract will continue to ensure the USMC and US Navy’s Forward Air Controllers and JTACs certification and qualification training and readiness needs are met. Image was shot with the Nikon Z7 and 24-70 f4 S series lens. Have A Bandit Day. #nikonaviation #nikonusa #nikonnps #douglas #mcdonelldouglas #usn #usnavy #avgeek #aviation #aviationphotography #picoftheday #excellentaviation #instaaviation #nikonartists #fighterjet #fighterpilot #avporn #excellentaviation #wingsofgold #topgun #avgeeksunite #iamnikon #aviationdaily #a4k #skyhawk #aggressor #isap_aviationphotography
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Short Final
Catching the lead Danish F-35 just about to cross the fence, with his wingman turning base.
Back to Parking
ATAC 642 taxis back to the stand after conducting a full power engine run on the runway.
QRA / Alert Bird / Permanence operationelle (PO) of the SPA 91 Squadron which belongs to the 2/30 Normandie Niemen Wing from AFB 118 Mont de Marsan performs a low pass at Blagnac-Toulouse Airport today. 4 Missiles - 2 MICA IR on the tips & 2 MICA RF on the pylons.
En Hommage aux aviateurs disparus dans l’accident de Albacete - Los Llanos y il a trois ans
L'Escadron de transformation Mirage 2000D 4/3 Argonne / SPA 48 Tête de Coq basé á Nancy- Ochey a peint 9 étoiles sur la dérive de un de leur M2000D en memoire des aviateurs partis trop tôt!
Capt JG "Marty" MARTINEZ doing what he does best! @ BA116 Luxeuil-Saint Sauveur during a ceremony remembering and honouring Captain Georges Guynemer - 1917-2017 - a World War 1 Ace - 53 kills confirmed of the Fighter Squadron 1/2 Storks / Groupe de Chasse 1/2 Cigogne
Captain Bertrand "Bubu" Butin the 2022 Rafale Solo Display pilot. Arriving at @Francazal Airport on Friday and doing his recon run ahead of the airshow this weekend. Pulling G's and generating some nice vapor!
In-Flight Felon
Ambush 12, moves into pre-contact during a Large Force Exercise(LFE) over the Pacific.
In the Battle of Britain, Hurricanes scored the highest number of RAF victories, accounting for 1,593 out of the 2,739 total claimed. By the beginning of 1941 German pilots had their measure. It did not do for a [Messerschmitt] Bf 109 to get into a dogfight with Hurricanes because the Hurricane could out-turn it, but the Bf 109 pilots’ “dive and zoom” tactics put Hurricane pilots at a severe disadvantage.
Yet those crucial months in 1939-40 were everything. Without the Hurricane, the Battle of Britain would have been lost. A total of 1,715 Hurricanes flew with Fighter Command during the period of the battle, far in excess of all other British fighters combined. Having entered service a year before the Spitfire, the Hurricane was “half a generation” older, and markedly inferior in terms of speed and climb. However, the Hurricane had proved itself a robust, manoeuvrable aircraft capable of surviving fearsome combat damage. Unlike the Spitfire, it was a wholly operational, go-anywhere, do-anything fighter by July 1940.
The crucial tactic in how Fighter Command approached the battle was exactly how to engage the massed formations of German aircraft. Hurricanes were generally directed at the bombers; they were a steady gun platform, and had a speed difference over Do 17 and He 111s that they did not have over Bf 109s. The Spitfires were directed at the German fighters.
The Ring-billed Gull sat atop the supersonic jet, and stared at the tourists onboard the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River.
For military buffs:
The plane, a Vought F-8K Crusader:
-was the first supersonic fighter designed for carriers.
-is the fastest plane ever flown from the Intrepid.
-has a top speed of 1322 mph (2128 kph)
-max. altitude 52350 ft (15956km)
-is painted to represent the plane as Intrepid pilot, Anthony Nargi flew it in 1968.
(info. from descriptive plaque on the Intrepid).