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File name: 08_06_033085
Title: Messerschmitt displayed on Boston Common WWII era
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Fighter planes; Military personnel; War damage; World War, 1939-1945; Boston Common (Boston, Mass.)
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
A SBD Dauntless dive bomber hanging above the entrance to Concourse A at Midway Airport in Chicago. The fighter plane crashed into Lake Michigan during a training exercise. The plane was recovered from the lake in 2001 and repaired at a Florida museum. The initials SBD stand for a scout bomber manufactured by Douglas Aircraft. Dive bombers flying from U.S. aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown as well as the Midway atoll attacked the Japanese fleet in the pivotal Battle of Midway. The plane on display was likely one of several that crashed after taking off from the Sable or the Wolverine, former lake steamers that were turned into something like aircraft carriers to prepare naval pilots for ocean conditions.
The Royal Canadian heritage flyover during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow with a CF-18 Hornet flying alongside a restored RCAF P-40 Kitty Hawk.
A US Navy E/A18G Growler flying during the Growler demo at the 2025 Abbotsford Airshow. It was loud and the pilots didn't hold back. I can still hear the afterburners when I look at these shots.
The Messerschmitt Me 163, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a rocket-powered fighter aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during WW2. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft to have ever been operational. Its design was revolutionary, and the Me 163 was capable of performance unrivaled at the time. Messerschmitt test pilot Rudy Opitz in 1944 reached 1,123 km/h (698 mph). Over 300 aircraft were built, however, mainly due to the peculiar nature of its power plant, the Me-163 proved ineffective as a fighter, having been responsible for the destruction of only about nine Allied aircraft.
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet on the static display at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
Even though she is retired and enjoying leisurly days in the sun, this fighter plane still stands ready if called upon.
A restored USAF P38 Lightning from WWII flying during the Warbirds demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It flew alongside an F4U Corsair and a P51 Mustang.
This P-47 is part of the collection of the New England Air Museum located in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. They have quite a nice collection of different aircraft and other memorabilia. Just $11 admission. Its worth the take.
The Montgomery Alabama Airshow
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RAF Typhoon awaiting clearance for take off: Development of the aircraft effectively began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a multinational collaborative effort between Germany, France, UK, Italy and Spain. Due to disagreements over design authority and operational requirements, France left the consortium to independently develop the Dassault Rafale instead. A technology demonstration aircraft, the British Aerospace EAP, first took flight on 6 August 1986; the first prototype of the finalised Eurofighter made its first flight on 27 March 1994. The name of the aircraft, Typhoon, was formally adopted in September 1998; the first production contracts were signed that same year.
"The TURKISH STARS are the Turkish Air Force Team and perform their high octane displays with "eight" supersonic NF-5 aircraft, at speeds varying from 200 Knots to 520 Knots (370km/h-960km/h) and with only 1 meter between each jet and G-forces up to G5."
description taken from www.alainaerobaticshow.com