4969 best r/wwiiplanes images on Pholder | BTD-1 Destroyer aircraft at rest, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, circa 1945

BTD-1 Destroyer aircraft at rest, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, circa 1945

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1st ever Goodwood Revival in '98 was opened by Ray Hanna who failed to mention that his display would end with a flypast over the start line at 20ft !

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Full-frontal F4U Corsair sexiness

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Fighter row at the 2012 Chino Planes of Fame airshow.

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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik before and after restoration at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona (from the museum's Facebook). Shot down and preserved in a lake near Leningrad, this aircraft was acquired by the museum in 2002. The aircraft is now on display and the museum is open right now.

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Formation of Hudson, P-51, Spitfire, Avenger, Corsair, Kittyhawk, Boomerang & Fw190

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Nose of a B-17 with modified armament, April 1943.

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German manufactured Ju 86 K-2 of Royal Hungarian Air Force, showing the Junkers doppelflugel wing control surfaces, c. 1938. The JU 86 was employed as a high altitude bomber, reconnaissance plane and transport. It was inferior to the He 111 bomber and consequently served in secondary roles.

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Crusing around Texas in 2012 P-51C, Me 262, and a B-24

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Women Airforce Service Pilot Ruth Daley boards an new Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Location is most likely Burbank, CA. Circa 1943 or 1944.

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Often forgotten the Vampire flew for the 1st time in Sep 1943. On December 3rd, 1945. A de Havilland Sea Vampire piloted by Captain Eric Winkle Brown became the first pure-jet aircraft to land on and take off from an aircraft carrier, HMS Ocean. The Sea Vampire was also the first RN jet fighter.

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Douglas B-18 Bolo in flight. Note the retractable upper turret.

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Idk why you can't see the front but this is my wallpaper on my phone and also my favourite plane. I'm gonna start modelling soon with 1/72 scale kits and I hope it'll be my first

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B-24 Liberator in RAF service.

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The Royal Navy During The Second World War, A Supermarine Seafire hitting the barrier on HMS INDEFATIGABLE after returning from the strike on a Japanese oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra. Note the broken undercarriage.

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GRUMMAN TBF AVENGER

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P.Le Lv 44. BW-havittajakonetta kaynnistetaan. (Kuvassa on Brewster Model 239, Havittalentolaivue 26 2. lentue.) Kuvauspaikka: Immolan lentokentta. 15/06/1944

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Unconscious pilot removed from the cockpit of his flak-damaged P-47D Thunderbolt after landing on a forward airfield in France on June 16th 1944

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Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an English airfield to replace squadron losses for the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

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Hello! Can anyone tell me what this cylindrical/cutout attachment is on this MK 108 Cannon

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Steel cable tangled around the nose of a Consolidated B-24 of the 44th Bombardment Group on its return to its base at RAF Shipdham in Norfolk from a raid on Emden on December 11, 1943. The cable was probably dropped from an aircraft belonging to E.Kdo. 25.

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Old v New, RAF Vulcan overflies a crashed B24 in the desert.

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A preserved RAF Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bomber during the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Artic convoys, June 2016.

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109 forward visibility was not the best!

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American Volunteer Group pilots with a P-40 fighter, China.

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An approximation of the visibility a pilot would have while on ground in a Soviet Interwar/WW2 era Polikarpov I-16 fighter. (photo by Dimitri Koumpanietz)

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Bristol Blenheim IVs of No. 82 Squadron RAF at Watton... 1940.

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[OC] Zero on your six!

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Finnish Fokker XXI being hand cranked.

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RAF Mosquito Mk.VI attacking ships in a Norwegian harbor, April 1945.

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A-20B Havocs of the 47th BG, probably Italy.

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The % of a P-47's wing that was ammunition! Duxford, England Sept 1944.

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Nakijima G8N1 Renzan / Rita. A Prototype Japanese 4-Engined Heavy Bomber

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Can you recognize this underwater aircraft? It looks like a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, but I might be wrong [1405 × 2500]

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MAM's BF109 spitting fire at a night shoot recently

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Ju-87 Stuka under new management with the RAF.

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Looks like the nose gunner is hitting a dooby.

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Dogfighting trails in the night sky over St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 1940.

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Captured British Short Stirling bomber with German markings.

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The 1000th Messerschmitt Bf 109 unit produced at Wiener Neustadter Flugzeugwerke, Austria. The Bf-109 remains to this day the single most produced fighter in history with +34.000 units.

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1:700 MK.II Sword Fish😋

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The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft of WW2, first flew in 1942 and only 4 years later the next generation B-36 almost doubled the size.

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P-40 Warhawk showing off her massive prop

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Pilot JimmyJohnson spots why his Corsair was lacking rudder authority after landing at Guadalcanal, 1943

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The ultimate development of the Spitfire, the Seafire FR47.

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Supermarine Spitfire

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An Royal Navy Hurricane has nearly gone off the edge of a carrier. And I know its a Corsair. :P

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Point me at the sky.

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Vickers Wellington Mk 1A, recovered after 45 years at the bottom of Loch Ness Scotland.

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Two Wildcats flown by Lt. Comdr. John S. Thach (foreground) and Lieutenant Edward “Butch” O’Hare near Oahu, Hawaii, in April 1942. O’Hare became the US Navy’s first fighter “ace,” but was killed in 1943.

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Russians use old jet engines to blow snow off roads

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A B-18A Bolo of the 17th Bomb Group at Felts Field 1940. This airfield is near Spokane, Washington.

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B-17 on a bridge. Date and location unknown.

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A pumpkin bomb is loaded into a B-29. These were replicas of the Fat Man atomic bomb that were filled with 6300lb of conventional explosive; 49 were dropped on Japan in dress rehearsal missions for the nuclear attacks. They were found to be effective weapons in their own right.

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Douglas B-18A Bolo 37-537 in 1944. Note that there is an extra large fuselage door. This Bolo might have been converted to a squadron taxi or light transport.

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Messerschmitt Bf 110 D-1 twin engine fighter/bomber in flight, long-range version with 2x 900L jettisonable auxiliary fuel tanks. This plane was from the 9th Squadron, Jagdgruppe 26, registration '3U+DT' (Yellow D), deployed in the Mediterranean and North Africa Theatre c. 1942.

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A Fw-190 and P-47 Thunderbolt at Planes of Fame 2011 - photo by AirshowDave

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Douglas DB-1 Bolo (Soon to be given the B-23 designation) at Wright Field. Note the bombardiers station has been sheet metaled closed.

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Allied B-17 of the 836th Squadron 10 April 1945. Cannon shells from a German Me262 ripped into it’s tail, perforating the vertical stabilizer & inboard right wing panel. Fire in No 3 engine, flames swept back to the tail. Crew bailed out at RP, 7 miles West of Elbe River. Later right wing came off.

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From the Navigators Table

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Give me lightspeed Chewy...

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Betty Jane, Sarah Jean and the Schwalbe

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B-17G 42-31106 “Goering’s Nightmare” of the 96th BG at Snetterton Heath July 21 1944. This was a mission to Regensburg. Lots of damage to this bird.

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Dornier Do-217 night fighter.

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Anyone can identify this ?

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B-17G Sally B low pass, probably Don Bullock at the controls.

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The Iowa Beaut,' a P-51B of the 354th Fighter Squadron flown over the English countryside by Lt Robert E Hulderman, mid-1944. A different pilot in this plane was lost near Rechtenbach, Germany, Sep 11, 1944

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Red Army paratroopers boarding a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber. Despite being a bomber the TB-3 was used extensively as paratrooper transport, it could carry 35 fully equipped soldiers.

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After the recapture of Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, American intelligence officers examine a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M-2 bomber, Feb 1945

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Ladies and Gentlemen! The WildCatFish! I deleted the original post because,...I'm a little drunk.

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A Douglas TBD Devastator as found in the wreckage of USS Lexington in 2018. Surprisingly well conserved after 76 years in the water at 3000 meters (~10,000 feet) of depth.

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Anyone knows where I can find more of these?

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A road was recently opened near me and they incorporated P-38 reliefs on the walls. The area used to be the Lockheed Plant, where the planes were built.

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Can anyone identify if this is indeed an airplane part, and if so, what aircraft?

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help argus as 014 pulse jet

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There were very few P-38 Lightnings serving in the RAF, and probably even fewer color pics to see what they looked like in the RAF livery.

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Below deck of HMS Furious 1942, Barracuda and Seafires.

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P-40 Kittyhawk and P-51 Mustang fighters in flight, Reading Regional Airport, Pennsylvania, United States, 3 Jun 2018

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He-162 on display in Hyde Park, London just after the war..

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Corsair pilot John Glenn.

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Color footage of USAAF Boeing B-17F Flying Fortresses in flight over North Africa in December 1942

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A large formation of B-17Fs of the 92nd Bomb Group flies toward Germany.

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B-24 Ball Turret from my GoPro

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US Marines guard a captured North Korean Yakovlev Yak-9, Korea, 1951. Introduced in 1942 the Yak-9 became one of the pillars of the Soviet Air Force and survived until the early 1950,s.

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P-47 washed up on Juno Beach just after D-Day

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Former Corsair Pilot

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Douglas B-18 Bolo bomber at Borinquen Army Airfield, Puerto Rico, 1941. Looking at the people the bomber seems smaller than I had in mind.

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B-17 fitted with B-24 nose and tail turrets.

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Tail gunner behind .50 Caliber Machine Guns on a B-17.

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486 sqn Typhoon and Tempest in the air together as the sqn traded their Tiffies for Tempests.

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Captured German Luftwaffe aircraft onboard the HMS Reaper being shipped back to England for examination and testing.

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WWII 16mm Bomber Footage

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September 1944. Tail gunner in a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) bomber. (792 x 505)

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Natives help a B-17 crew that was forced down for a wheels down landing on a beach, after a raid on Rabaul.

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Can Anyone Help with Info on this P-47? Meanings of Brooms & Umbrellas in art?

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Dad (on right) with old friend on his 100th birthday yesterday. He flew P-40's for 6 wks in Hawaii, then P-39's mid '42 to end of '43, then instructor, then P-47's and P-51's with 78th FG out of Duxford Sept. 44 to end.

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Douglas Digby. That's the RAF name for the Bolo. This is the nose section. I have no idea what the lower glass window is for. Maybe a sighting mechanism for a remote control turret?

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