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The Supermarine Spitfire, bred from the Schneider Trophy winning seaplane racers of the 30s, an incredibly elegant, agile and fast fighter, triumph of design and engineering. But oh so much more than that in the collective psyche of these islands, the Spit is forever associated with that moment when the history of the free world balanced on a knife edge, the Battle of Britain, and remains for many of us a supreme symbol of defiance against the odds in the face of overwhelming evil which had swallowed so much else but found the RAF more than they could chew...
This Spit was constructed late in the war, 1944, so long after that watershed air battle, although in the 1960s she would be taking to the air for part of the movie Battle of Britain. She's been the 'gate guard' at various RAF bases, including Leuchars, over the years and was eventually donated to the city of Glasgow (she had once been part of the City of Glasgow auxiliary RAF squadron in her history), refurbished at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune and when the magnificent Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum re-opened after a huge redevelopment she was on display, hanging there amid the early 1900s architecture, rather delightfully right over the head of a stuffed giraffe on display with other animals below! There's something quite magical about turning into a wing of this huge, historic edifice and coming face to face with a real Spitfire just hanging there, the lines so elegant and aerodynamic she still looks fast even when hanging still...
A USAF F35 Lightning II performing during the Lightning demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was an awesome demo, it was cut short however due to technical problems. A warning light came on and the pilot had to land. That said she put on a good show, didn't hold back, and she nearly broke the sound barrier.
The RCAF CF-18 Hornet demo during the 2023 Abbotsford Airshow. The Cf-18s are now due to be replaced by the new CF-35 Lightnings by 2027 making this years airshow one of the last few times that they'll be at Abbotsford. It'll be sad to see them go when they're finally retired.
Canberra XH134 at the Southport Air Show 2014. In 1951 The RAF's first jet powered bomber, the Canberra, entered service with the Royal Air Force. it was unarmed and relied on highspeed to escape enemy fighters.
Maybe it is a little precious, but the set up was too perfect to ignore. I was out on an errand yesterday and noticed the plane mounted in front of the American Legion hall on East Airport. It seemed like a suitable enough subject for a photograph, but then I noticed a plane flying against the horizon and leaving a con-trail behind it. How fitting. A former warplane, mounted as though in flight and commercial airliner going about its regular business. Another day in Baton Rouge, another happy coincidence.
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Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc taken recently at Rhyl Air Show. The last one ever built of 14,533 planes. PZ865
FJ-4 Fury & MiG-15bis in flight - from the Flight Over the Falls airshow 7/31/11, Great Falls, MT.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
A bbmf Spitfire and an RAF Typhoon go through their routine in front of assessors during PDA (public display authorisation) to get certified for public displays. This was at RAF Coningsby.
I've been scanning a few of my old negatives lately. These four photos of the P-40 were taken at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in July '90.
This was taken at the 2006 Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. These precision flyers were part of the Lima Lima Flight Team, a team of six, flying these restored Beechcraft T-34A Mentors.
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Fokker DR.1 1 Introduced over the western front in August 1917, the Fokker Triplane soon became the favorite plane of Germany's greatest WWI ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Photographic print entitled 'W.B.26. 2 SEATER FIGHTER ROLLS-ROYCE EAGLE ENGINE IX', from a William Beardmore & Co Ltd photographic album, c1917-1921. (GUAS Ref: UGD 100/1/11/3/77. Copyright reserved.)
This Spitfire is a replica painted to match WW2, double ace pilot
Bert Houles Spitfire: AN-A JG184 (cdn 4817). Here's a breif snip I found on him:
GROUP CAPTAIN ALBERT ULRICH "BERT" HOULE, D.F.C. and Bar, C.D., of Massey, Ontario, flew with Nos. 213, 145 and 417 Squadrons. His score of enemy aircraft was 11 destroyed, 1 probable and 7 others damaged.
He commanded the crack City of Windsor Squadron which fought in Malta, the Middle East, Britain. He was best known for getting two Germans in 15 seconds. He "squirted" at one, went underneath it, saw another, "squirted" him too. He wore the D.F.C.
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Model of the innovative Grumman FF-1 "Fifi" two-seat biplane fighter of the 1930s. It had an all-metal fuselage, and was the first US Navy fighter with retractable landing gear. This model, on display in the Naval Heritage Center at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, represents an FF-1 that served in Fighter Squadron VF-5B on the USS Lexington (CV-2).