Friend of mine was on the last cruise in VF-151… USS Midway (CV-41) was the last US Navy aircraft carrier to operate the McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II. On March 25th 1986 the Midway sent the Phantoms to the beach for good. The article and a nice little … Continue reading
Category Archives: airplane stuff
Kinda sorta… … Continue reading
B17G-30-BO of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group encounters home defense Me109s over Germany in 1944. … Continue reading
Mk I Spitfires of 610 Squadron flying a defensive patrol low over the White Cliffs during the height of the Battle of Britain in August 1940. They normally flew both a low and a high patrol at least twice a … Continue reading
Flight Lieutenant Donald J. M. Blakeslee of 133 Eagle Squadron exits his Spitfire MkVb at the Lympne airfield after his fourth mission of 19th of August 1942. On this date, during Operation Jubilee – the joint British-Canadian amphibious assault against … Continue reading
JP forwarded me a collection done by Yago F. de Bobadilla, and I’m going to put one up each Sunday for a while… There will be a little detail with each picture, but these are all classic aviation paintings mostly from … Continue reading
Back in the day, we had more squadrons in all services than we do today… Somebody (probably an Admiral), decided they wanted a photo op of all the squadrons… Front to back, VP-5, VP-16, VP-24 (Batmen!), VP-45, VP-49, VP-56 And … Continue reading
This one came over the transom last night via the mil-email string… As we get older and we experience the loss of old friends, we begin to realize that maybe we bullet-proof Pilots won’t live forever. We aren’t so bullet-proof … Continue reading
Hours and HOURS of doing this stuff… Bonus points if you can guess what kind of ship that is… This was always the ‘fun’ shot… Right over the top and hope to hell they didn’t stuff ‘something’ up your ass … Continue reading
The 2014 New Years Video… I can’t embed it, but here’s the link… And Mr. Kinsey deserves a BIG tip of the hat for what he does to support Naval Aviation… This was a couple of years ago, but thank … Continue reading