Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat: This Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat tested while at Langley a turbo-supercharger, rather than a gear-driven supercharger as was the norm with the F6F. This aircraft served with the NACA for almost one year...
Archive - July 2013
The world’s largest formation of Supermarine Spitfire aircraft taxi down the runway during the Duxford Air Show in England in September 2011. The Supermarine Spitfire was the only Allied aircraft in production throughout the...
Republic P-47D at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. U.S. Air Force Photograph.
A F4U Corsair, a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War, puts on an incredible display of the aircraft’s abilities, complete with smoke, at the Sioux Gateway Airport /...
Formation of Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses of the 532nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group showing aircraft B-17G-65-BO and B-17G-35-DL. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Experimental North American P-51D Mustang with pulsejets mounted under the wings. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AFPN) — Two P-51 Mustangs fly in formation with an A-10 Thunderbolt II during the Heritage Flight Conference held here recently. The Heritage Flight Conference is designed to train and...
P-51 Mustang “Quick Silver” photographed at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., March 2012. (U.S. Air Force Photograph / Senior Airman Kenneth Holston.)
P-51 Mustang “Cincinnati Miss” taxis after landing at the Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, MI in 2005. (Source Wikimedia, Public Domain Image)
A 16-inch heavy howitzer and crew at Fort Story, Virginia, April 1942. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)