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VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER NASA Identifier: C-1943-1866 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 28, 2019)

190928-N-YZ751-1870 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 28, 2019)

190928-N-YZ751-1870 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 28, 2019) An aircraft launches from aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a photo exercise with aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 to... More

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon NASA Identifier: C-2007-1874

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon

2007 Thunderbirds Aircraft, F-16 Fighting Falcon NASA Identifier: C-2007-1875

Boeing F3B-1, NASA history collection

Boeing F3B-1, NASA history collection

Boeing F3B-1: While most Boeing F3B-1s served aboard the U. S. Navy aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, this example flew in NACA hands at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in the late 1920's. ... More

Sperry M-1 Messenger, NASA history collection

Sperry M-1 Messenger, NASA history collection

Sperry M-1 Messenger: The Army's Sperry M-1 Messenger tested variable-camber wings at Langley in 1926. NASA Identifier: L1313

Huck Starter For Airplanes, NASA history collection

Huck Starter For Airplanes, NASA history collection

Modified Ford truck with a Huck starter, shown starting a Vought VE-7 in 1926. NASA Identifier: L1589

Curtiss XBFC-1 (XF11C-1) Goshawk

Curtiss XBFC-1 (XF11C-1) Goshawk

Curtiss XBFC-1 (XF11C-1) Goshawk: The NACA equipped the Navy's Curtis XBFC-1 fighter-bomber with an experimental nose-slot cowling for ground testing in October 1937. Measurements of the XBFC-1's cockpit field ... More

Weick W-1A, NASA history collection

Weick W-1A, NASA history collection

Weick W-1A: Fred Weick's homebuilt W-1A of 1934, one of the first aircraft to employ tricycle landing gear. Weick and a group of nine other Langley engineers built this small experimental airplane in their spar... More

Franklin PS-2 (XPS-2) Glider. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

Franklin PS-2 (XPS-2) Glider. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

Franklin PS-2 (XPS-2) Glider: This Franklin PS-2 training glider is about to be towed aloft by the specially modified car in front. NACA researchers used the PS-2 in a study of ground effect on a towed glider. ... More

Hall PH-2 Flying Lifeboat,1936 by Gerard Provenza

Hall PH-2 Flying Lifeboat,1936 by Gerard Provenza

Beginning in 1934, the Coast Guard began using a specially designed "flying lifeboat" -- equipped with specialized equipment and capabilities for search and rescue duties and capable of operating up to 1,000 mi... More

Martin B-10B, NASA history collection

Martin B-10B, NASA history collection

Martin B-10B: Although the front turret looks like it may have bee too high, the drag of the Martin B-10 bomber was low enough for it to have been faster than any U. S. Fighter when it was first ordered in Janu... More

Lockheed/Detroit XRO-1 Altair. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

Lockheed/Detroit XRO-1 Altair. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

Lockheed/Detroit XRO-1 Altair: The metal fuselage-wooden winged Lockheed XRO-1 Altair carried the distinction of being the first aircraft with retractable gear operated by the U. S. Navy. This aircraft appeared... More

RAF MILDENHALL, England -- A U.S. Air Force KC-135

RAF MILDENHALL, England -- A U.S. Air Force KC-135

RAF MILDENHALL, England -- A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker from the 100th Air Refueling Wing sits on the tarmac at RAF Mildenhall, England, May 26, 2019. In honor of 75 years since D-Day, aircraft from RAF... More

Capt. Mike Sydney, 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron

Capt. Mike Sydney, 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron

Capt. Mike Sydney, 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-52 Stratofortress copilot, explains features of the aircraft to former Marine Pfc. William Mays, a Guam liberation World War II veteran, during his visit to... More

A World War II Era Warbird flys over Marine Corps Base

A World War II Era Warbird flys over Marine Corps Base

A World War II Era Warbird flys over Marine Corps Base Hawaii during an aerial parade for the 75th Anniversary of the End of WW II Commemoration at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, August 29, 2020. World ... More

F-16s fly over Arlington National Cemetery during a

F-16s fly over Arlington National Cemetery during a

F-16s fly over Arlington National Cemetery during a memorial service for 2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, United States Army Air Forces, Jan. 14, 2016, in Arlington, Va. Leftenant, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen,... More

AIRSPEED BOOM B-24D AIRPLANE. Public domain image, NASA.

AIRSPEED BOOM B-24D AIRPLANE. Public domain image, NASA.

AIRSPEED BOOM B-24D AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1945-9739 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

B-26 AIRPLANE ON THE HANGAR APRON NASA Identifier: C-1946-14436

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER NASA Identifier: C-1943-1878 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

AERIAL VIEW FROM 7000 FEET OVER LAKE ERIE OF B-24M AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT SHOWING AIR SCOOP - WATER SPRAY - JET TAILPIPE

AERIAL VIEW FROM 7000 FEET OVER LAKE ERIE OF B-24M AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT ...

AERIAL VIEW FROM 7000 FEET OVER LAKE ERIE OF B-24M AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT SHOWING AIR SCOOP - WATER SPRAY - JET TAILPIPE NASA Identifier: C-1946-15318

Dr. Roy Heidicker, 4th Fighter Wing historian, shows

Dr. Roy Heidicker, 4th Fighter Wing historian, shows

Dr. Roy Heidicker, 4th Fighter Wing historian, shows a display of a P-51 Mustang to Thomas Nash, grandson of retired Col. Van Chandler, during his visit to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., Aug. 5, 2013. Ch... More

A B-25J Mitchell bomber, owned by Disabled American

A B-25J Mitchell bomber, owned by Disabled American

A B-25J Mitchell bomber, owned by Disabled American Veterans flight team, warms-up aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., May 4, 2012. Paul Ringheiser III and his father Paul Jr., flew aboard the a... More

B-29 VIEWS, NASA history collection

B-29 VIEWS, NASA history collection

B-29 VIEWS NASA Identifier: C-1944-5494 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

P-61 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1946-14494 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Head-on shot of a World War II era P-51 Mustang while

Head-on shot of a World War II era P-51 Mustang while

Head-on shot of a World War II era P-51 Mustang while flying over the Arizona desert during a USAF Heritage Conference 2002 training flight. The aircraft is owned by Brigadier General (Ret) Bill Anders who is ... More

U.S. Air Force pilots with the 303d Fighter Squadron

U.S. Air Force pilots with the 303d Fighter Squadron

U.S. Air Force pilots with the 303d Fighter Squadron discuss the capabilities of the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft with visitors at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., July 10, 2019. Airmen of the 442d Fighter ... More

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team crew

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team crew

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team crew chiefs, signal to an F-22 Raptor before take-off at the 2017 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Feb. 9, ... More

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, NASA history collection

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, NASA history collection

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning: Drag cleanup tests were conducted on the Lockheed YP-38 Lightning in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in December, 1941. Later models of the P-38 performed stellar service in WW II, but a... More

A loadmaster from the 86th Airlift Wing is seen on

A loadmaster from the 86th Airlift Wing is seen on

A loadmaster from the 86th Airlift Wing is seen on the rear ramp of C-130 Hercules aircraft as U.S. Army paratroopers prepare to board the aircraft in Cherbourg, France, June 3, 2018. The paratroopers executed ... More

TF Stilwell supports Navy EOD team in discovering World War II mines

TF Stilwell supports Navy EOD team in discovering World War II mines

Task Force Stilwell personnel in the foreground and the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal team in the background watch as their equipment is unloaded from the C-130 at Palanga International Airport to support... More

2nd Lt. Harry Burdette(top right), 379th Bombardment

2nd Lt. Harry Burdette(top right), 379th Bombardment

2nd Lt. Harry Burdette(top right), 379th Bombardment B-17 Flying Fortress pilot, shown here with his crew at Kimbolton, England, is the grandfather of Capt. Shawn Jensen, a RC-135 Rivet Joint pilot with the 763... More

Martin Engler, a U.S. Army Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Martin Engler, a U.S. Army Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Martin Engler, a U.S. Army Republic P-47 Thunderbolt pilot from World War II, receives a tour of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., July 30. Brian ... More

B-17 undergoes heavy maintenance in Oklahoma City in 1942.

B-17 undergoes heavy maintenance in Oklahoma City in 1942.

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress undergoes heavy engine maintenance at the Oklahoma City Air Depot in this undated photo from 1942. B-17s received Norden bombsight upgrades at the facility. Courtesy photo Tinker A... More

Urban Rahoi, a World War II veteran and Fairbanks,

Urban Rahoi, a World War II veteran and Fairbanks,

Urban Rahoi, a World War II veteran and Fairbanks, Alaska resident, watches takeoffs with U.S Air Force Col. Michael Winkler, the 354th Fighter Wing commander May 13, 2016, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Ra... More

Airmen assigned to the 317th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Airmen assigned to the 317th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Airmen assigned to the 317th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron watch a C-130J Super Hercules taxi on the tarmac at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 12, 2020. The 317th Airlift Wing sent Airmen on a commemorative d... More

Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 Marines,

Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 Marines,

Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 Marines, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, standby to honor the remains of 36 Marines, July 26, 2015, being offloaded from C-130J Hercules aircr... More

FORT BENNING, Ga. – Fort Benning, birthplace of America’s

FORT BENNING, Ga. – Fort Benning, birthplace of America’s

FORT BENNING, Ga. – Fort Benning, birthplace of America’s Airborne, hosts an annual gathering of former paratroopers April 4 through 6, with events that included a parachute jump from a World War II transport p... More

U.S. Marines pilot a KC-130J Hercules Aerial Refueling

U.S. Marines pilot a KC-130J Hercules Aerial Refueling

U.S. Marines pilot a KC-130J Hercules Aerial Refueling Tanker during Exercise Valiant Shield at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Sep 18, 2018. Valiant Shield is a biennial, U.S. only, field training exercise (FTX... More

F-15B in flight showing Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow (SS-NLF) experiment attached vertically to t

F-15B in flight showing Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow (SS-NLF) exper...

In-flight photo of the F-15B equipped with the Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow (SS-NLF) experiment. During four research flights, laminar flow was achieved over 80 percent of the test wing at speeds approaching... More

A U.S. Air Force Commemorative LT-6D Mosquito Fighter

A U.S. Air Force Commemorative LT-6D Mosquito Fighter

A U.S. Air Force Commemorative LT-6D Mosquito Fighter sits on display for the public during a World War II Air Show at Peachtree Dekalb Airport in Atlanta, Ga., May 20, 2013. The aircraft was to educate and giv... More

Members of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation inspect

Members of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation inspect

Members of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation inspect a B-17 Flying Fortress and KC-135 Stratotanker on static display at Washington Dulles International Airport, Va., Oct. 19, 2017. The foundation hosted a reunio... More

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters prepare to land on a field

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters prepare to land on a field

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters prepare to land on a field near the John S. Thompson Bridge in Grave, Netherlands, Sept. 17, 2014. After the helicopters landed, Paratroopers assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 5... More

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1943-2282 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A B-2 Spirit Bomber pilot, from the 13th Bob Squadron

A B-2 Spirit Bomber pilot, from the 13th Bob Squadron

A B-2 Spirit Bomber pilot, from the 13th Bob Squadron (BS) stands in front of a North American B-25 Mitchell at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., June 11, 2017. The 13th BS has participated in every war since World... More

B-29 VIEWS, NASA history collection

B-29 VIEWS, NASA history collection

B-29 VIEWS NASA Identifier: C-1944-5491 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat, NASA history collection

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 almo... More

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat: This Grumman Bearcat, the first, the XF8F-1, was tested for directional instability in Langley's 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel. NASA Identifier: L42397

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF8F-1 Bearcat: This Grumman Bearcat, the first, the XF8F-1, was tested for directional instability in Langley's 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel. NASA Identifier: L42397

Bell YP-39 Airacobra, NASA history collection

Bell YP-39 Airacobra, NASA history collection

Bell YP-39 Airacobra: This YP-39 Airacobra was one of several service-test models of the Bell fighter ordered before major production contracts were given. It arrived at Langley in February 1941 and flew with t... More

AVIATION MEET, NASA history collection

AVIATION MEET, NASA history collection

AVIATION MEET NASA Identifier: C-1945-10587 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Pacific Aviation Museum officially began the $7.5

The Pacific Aviation Museum officially began the $7.5

The Pacific Aviation Museum officially began the $7.5 million stabilization of the historic Ford Island Control Tower with a Hawaiian blessing. The tower stood over Ford Island, Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japan atta... More

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, NASA history collection

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, NASA history collection

Lockheed YP-38 Lightning: Drag cleanup tests were conducted on the Lockheed YP-38 Lightning in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in December, 1941. Later models of the P-38 performed stellar service in WW II, but a... More

A B-1 Lancer from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air

A B-1 Lancer from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air

A B-1 Lancer from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., performs a slow-speed flyover in honor of Staff Sgt. David J. Thatcher June 27, 2016, in Missoula, Mont. At 20 years old, and as an engine... More

(Chief Seattle graphic by Martin Čížek, which can be

(Chief Seattle graphic by Martin Čížek, which can be

(Chief Seattle graphic by Martin Čížek, which can be found at: File:B-17E_19_BG.jpg; and B-17 crew positions graphic, which can be found at: https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/details/die-besatzung/) Here the E mo... More

Martin RA-30 Baltimore, NASA history collection

Martin RA-30 Baltimore, NASA history collection

Martin RA-30 Baltimore: The Martin RA-30 Baltimore was a light bomber ordered by the Royal Air Force. Some examples were retained in the United States as part of a "Reverse Lend-Lease." This example was flown b... More

A Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopter refuels Dec. 9 at

A Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopter refuels Dec. 9 at

A Navy MH-60S Seahawk helicopter refuels Dec. 9 at Charlie runway on Tinian’s North Field during Exercise Forager Fury II to execute a forward arming and refueling point training. The series of exercises, which... More

X-1, NASA history collection. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

X-1, NASA history collection. Public domain image of NASA aircraft.

E-9XS-1 on the ramp with the B-29 mothership in 1949. This is the second XS-1 built; it later was converted into the X-1E. Unlike the XS-1-1, which was flown by the Air Force, the XS-1-2 was flown mostly by Bel... More

PHOTOGRAPHED BY FLIGHT RESEARCH DIVISION FROM HANGAR

PHOTOGRAPHED BY FLIGHT RESEARCH DIVISION FROM HANGAR

PHOTOGRAPHED BY FLIGHT RESEARCH DIVISION FROM HANGAR NASA Identifier: C-1945-11385

Grumman JRF-5 Goose, NASA history collection

Grumman JRF-5 Goose, NASA history collection

Grumman JRF-5 Goose: The NACA used this Grumman JRF-5 Goose amphibian to shuttle workers back and forth between Langley and Wallops Island. NASA Identifier: L46931

Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat, NASA history collection

Grumman XF6F-4 Hellcat, NASA history collection

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 almo... More

Grumman XTBF-1 "Avenger, NASA history collection

Grumman XTBF-1 "Avenger, NASA history collection

General views of Avenger aircraft. NASA Identifier: L31955 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Restoration director, Robert P. Cramsie, a member of

Restoration director, Robert P. Cramsie, a member of

Restoration director, Robert P. Cramsie, a member of the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation was presented with the 2016 Excellence of Volunteerism award at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar in San D... More

‘Roll ‘em’ - P-38 Lightning, 1944

‘Roll ‘em’ - P-38 Lightning, 1944

A P-38 Lightning sits at King’s Cliffe, England, circa 1944. During World War II more than 10,000 P-38s were manufactured, providing airpower to more than 130,000 missions around the world. (Courtesy photo)

B-24D AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-24D AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-24D AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1944-6758 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Robert Gruschow,

Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Robert Gruschow,

Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Robert Gruschow, commanding officer of Station Fort Myers Beach, drapes an American flag on the casket of Dorothy Kurtz, member of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve also known as... More

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

1946, NASA history collection, Glenn Research Center

TWO DIMENSIONAL RAM JET SUPPORTED BELOW P-61 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1946-17161

Grumman JRF-5 Goose, NASA history collection

Grumman JRF-5 Goose, NASA history collection

Grumman JRF-5 Goose: The NACA used this Grumman JRF-5 Goose amphibian to shuttle workers back and forth between Langley and Wallops Island. NASA Identifier: L45147

Sikorsky HNS-1 (YR-4B) Hoverfly Helicopter

Sikorsky HNS-1 (YR-4B) Hoverfly Helicopter

Sikorsky HNS-1 (YR-4B) Hoverfly Helicopter: Sikorsky's HNS-1 helicopter was test flown at Langley in March 1945. This example was initially ordered by the Army, and carries an Army serial number. Jack Reeder, t... More

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J carrying the remains of

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J carrying the remains of

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J carrying the remains of Marines who had fallen during World War II at the Battle of Tarawa taxis down the runway at Joint Base Pearl Harbor/Hickam before the Dignified Transfer Ceremo... More

YA-31 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

YA-31 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

YA-31 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1945-8914 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boeing B-29B Superfortress, NASA history collection

Boeing B-29B Superfortress, NASA history collection

Boeing B-29B Superfortress: Among the tests Langley performed with this Boeing B-29 Superfortress were dropping free-fall test bodies. Problems with engine cooling limited this aircraft's use in the role, and a... More

AIRPLANE C-78 ON HANGAR APRON. Public domain image, NASA.

AIRPLANE C-78 ON HANGAR APRON. Public domain image, NASA.

AIRPLANE C-78 ON HANGAR APRON NASA Identifier: C-1943-2390

DPAA Recovery Operations, Normandy, France

DPAA Recovery Operations, Normandy, France

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently recovered and returned an American Airman missing from Would War II to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, 24 May 2017. Two DPAA recove... More

Special World War II vet visited McCoy in 2016, recalled friends from famed 100th

Special World War II vet visited McCoy in 2016, recalled friends from ...

Thelma and Clarence Suzuki tour the Fort McCoy, Wis., Commemorative Area on Oct. 28, 2016. Clarence is a former Army sergeant and World War II veteran who served with the Military Intelligence Service in Japan ... More

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, NASA history collection

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, NASA history collection

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt: Republic Aviation's P-47N was the version of the Thunderbolt built for use in the Pacific. Without a series of bases to leapfrog from, range was a high priority on this model. This e... More

Two U.S. Air Force C-130Js, assigned to the 37th Airlift

Two U.S. Air Force C-130Js, assigned to the 37th Airlift

Two U.S. Air Force C-130Js, assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron, flys over the terrain of Normandy to practice their manuauers in Northern France; June 3, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invas... More

A South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon

A South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon

A South Carolina Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet, assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing, McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C. and a World War II era P-51 Mustang team up to celebrate their ... More

A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 107th Fighter

A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 107th Fighter

A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 107th Fighter Squadron, Michigan Air National Guard, are joined by a C-130 Hercules aircraft as they fly over the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the commeroration ... More

An A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to the 86th Weapons

An A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to the 86th Weapons

An A-10 Thunderbolt II assigned to the 86th Weapons Squadron prepares to launch with the help of its Maintenance First Support Service team at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., June 21, 2019. Pilots assigned to the ... More

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER. Public domain image, NASA.

VISIT OF MEMPHIS BELLE BOMBER NASA Identifier: C-1943-1880 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Four U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors fly over the Harbor

Four U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors fly over the Harbor

Four U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors fly over the Harbor during the 78th Pearl Harbor Remembrance ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 2019. As the third F-22 Raptor pulls up and away from th... More

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter lands next to Stryker

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter lands next to Stryker

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter lands next to Stryker armored vehicles from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment as they complete their 1,800 km "Dragoon Ride" from Estonia, Lithuania and Poland on April 1. The 16th Sustainm... More

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Calif.,

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Calif.,

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, Calif., practice parachute operations over San Diego in the early 1940s. Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11, originally Flight 1, 2nd Air Squadron, Marine Flyin... More

A C-54E Skymaster named “Spirit of Freedom” sits on

A C-54E Skymaster named “Spirit of Freedom” sits on

A C-54E Skymaster named “Spirit of Freedom” sits on the tarmac at the Great Falls International Airport, Sept. 9, 2016. The Spirit of Freedom is a flying museum being flown all over the country by members of th... More

B-29 AIRPLANE FLIGHT TEST WITH TG-180 ENGINE RUNNING

B-29 AIRPLANE FLIGHT TEST WITH TG-180 ENGINE RUNNING

B-29 AIRPLANE FLIGHT TEST WITH TG-180 ENGINE RUNNING NASA Identifier: C-1948-21992

NASA P-51D Mustang, Dryden history gallery

NASA P-51D Mustang, Dryden history gallery

EC00-0277-3Bill Allmon of Las Vegas, Nevada, brought his restored NACA P-51D to a reunion of former NACA employees at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center located at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Sept. 1... More

The Texas Military Forces (TXMF) Museum’s living history

The Texas Military Forces (TXMF) Museum’s living history

The Texas Military Forces (TXMF) Museum’s living history detachment presents a Vietnam War reenactment during the annual Central Texas Air Show in Temple, May 1, 2010. The detachment, which covers numerous time... More

Curtiss XP-42, NASA history collection

Curtiss XP-42, NASA history collection

Curtiss XP-42: This highly modified Curtiss P-36A became the XP-42 when it was re-engined and took part in drag-reduction and all-moving tail research with the NACA at Langley. The last flight of this aircraft ... More

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Andrew Wilder, center, 100th

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Andrew Wilder, center, 100th

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Andrew Wilder, center, 100th Maintenance Group unit deployment manager from Hernando, Miss., speaks with Joe Urice, a World War II veteran, during a base visit May 22, 2014, on RAF Mi... More

A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules, assigned to

A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules, assigned to

A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules, assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, sits on the ramp of Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport, France, May 30, 2019. More than 100 Team Ramstein me... More

Bell YP-39 Airacobra, NASA history collection

Bell YP-39 Airacobra, NASA history collection

Bell YP-39 Airacobra: This YP-39 Airacobra was one of several service-test models of the Bell fighter ordered before major production contracts were given. It arrived at Langley in February 1941 and flew with t... More

T-33A Shooting Star at the Air Mobility Command Museum

T-33A Shooting Star at the Air Mobility Command Museum

The T-33A Shooting Star rests in front of the Air Mobility Command Museum July 12, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and closed on... More

B-24 AIRPLANE SHOWING W24-C ENGINE AND RADAR DOME NOSE INSTALLATIONS

B-24 AIRPLANE SHOWING W24-C ENGINE AND RADAR DOME NOSE INSTALLATIONS

B-24 AIRPLANE SHOWING W24-C ENGINE AND RADAR DOME NOSE INSTALLATIONS NASA Identifier: C-1948-21999

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1943-2280 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

XB-25-E B-25 AIRPLANE SHOWING ANTI-ICE INSTALLATIONS

XB-25-E B-25 AIRPLANE SHOWING ANTI-ICE INSTALLATIONS

XB-25-E B-25 AIRPLANE SHOWING ANTI-ICE INSTALLATIONS NASA Identifier: C-1947-19356

COPIES OF AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT. Public domain image, NASA.

COPIES OF AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT. Public domain image, NASA.

COPIES OF AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT NASA Identifier: C-1944-7652 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An emergency first responder helicopter lands at Camp

An emergency first responder helicopter lands at Camp

An emergency first responder helicopter lands at Camp Mabry during the 10th annual Texas Military Department's Open House featuring the American Heroe’s Air Show, at Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas, Saturday, Apri... More

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE, NASA history collection

B-26 AIRPLANE NASA Identifier: C-1943-2277 Public domain photograph of NASA experimental aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A 25th Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II ascends

A 25th Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II ascends

A 25th Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II ascends the skies April 9, 2020, at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, the 25th FS follows the United States Forces-Korea’s health ... More

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