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An Royal Canadian Air Force CF18 Hornet flying during the RCAF's CF18 demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
Singled out by the Allied forces after the Great War, as the greatest fighter plane in the conflict, and subjected to special attention and research. The Fokker DVII came late but gained a fearsome reputation in air combat in the hands of German aces of favoured Jastas. This example is painted in the colours attributed to Hermann Goering who became an ace pilot at the time.
Captured at Thorpe Park in the early days of this enterprise.
Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame SLR.
Re-worked in black and white.
Two USAF Solo Pilots, 5 and 6, perform a belly to belly maneuver at the 2009 Thunder Over the Boardwalk Airshow in Atlantic City, NJ.
Done for a friend who is hoping to become a USAF fighter pilot. My interpretation of Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! art piece. It is one of my favorites so I tried to do as much justice to it as possible.
Done with watercolors, pen and paint marker.
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.
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet on the static display at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
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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Val-Halla, a restored P51 Mustang, flying at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow. It was supposed to be taking part in the USAF Heritage Flyover alongside the F35 Lightning II but the F35 hand to land due to technical problems so Val-Halla flew on it's own while the RCAF Snowbirds prepared for their performance. Val-Halla was named for both it's pilots Bill Anders wife Valerie and for the Black Knights P51 squadron that was stationed at Keflavik, Iceland during the Cold War.
The current 2010 Duveen Commission, by Fiona Banner.
The suspended Sea Harrier transforms machine into captive bird, the markings tattooing its surface evoking its namesake the Harrier Hawk. A Jaguar lies belly up on the floor, its posture suggestive of a submissive animal. Stripped and polished, its surface functions as a shifting mirror, exposing the audience to its own reactions. Harrier and Jaguar remain ambiguous objects implying both captured beast and fallen trophy.
[From the Tate website]
Both planes are de-commissioned fighter planes.
The Jaguar has been polished, the Harrier painted with feathers.
Jaguar
This particular plane is Sepecat Jaguar XZ118.
First flight in 1976, decommissioned in 2006.
The SEPECAT Jaguar is an Anglo-French jet ground attack aircraft, used by the RAF until 2007.
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
Amazingly fun day. T'was the first time I've ever seen F-16s or F-18s in flight. Well worth the money.
An Royal Canadian Air Force CF18 Hornet flying during the RCAF's CF18 demo at the 2025 Abbotsford International Airshow.
Seen on display in the Museum of Flight parking lot was this CF-188(F/A-18A) of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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
My latest planemodel, Build some weeks ago!
Hungarian Fighterplane „Heja 1“. Southukraine, Summer 1942
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2, RN228 / 10639 at RAF Henlow August 1967: a scan of course, Kodak Brownie snap by me.
At RAF Henlow by this date for possible use in the Battle of Britain film with applied "White 14" to end up in Hendon museum as "Black 6" colour scheme. WW 2 ex-Bf109E3 4101 but here for RAF Henlow Charity Gala we used to go every summer. Now grounded is the famous Bf 109 G-2 with serial number 10639, produced in September or October 1942 at Erla in Leipzig. It was put in service by the Luftwaffe on October 13th 1942, being marked as PG + QJ and was transferred to 8./JG 27 eight days later, now wearing the "black 6". During a combat above the African desert, the plane was damaged by a Curtis P-40. The pilot, Heinz Lüdermann, landet at Gambut, where the plane was captured by British troops on November 13th 1942. One year later, the plane was shipped to Liverpool and was tested between February 1944 and November 1945. In 1961 it was decided to bring restore to flying condition. According to reports their "restoration works caused more damage than the combat and ended in chaos" so the project was cancelled. So ahead of the filming of the Battle of Britain film it was given this dubious scheme not that it would have been appropriate to have an Emil in a dogfight.
Subsequently, a restoration project was successful and in its original desert camouflage and "Black 6" reappeared. However, on October 12th, 1997, at IWM Duxford it was heavily damaged by a crash landing in an adjacent field. Remarkably some wrote it off but luckily some more determined folk set to and rebuilt to airworthy condition. However, so precious has she become it was decided not to risk it and in March 2002, "Black 6" arrived to join its former enemies in a special display at the RAF Hendon Museum.
The SBD Dauntless was a dive-bomber that played a key role in the victory at the Battle of Midway in 1942 during WWII.
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.