All these shots were taken in flight, except one and it looks like it is (sorta).
Doesn’t need much intro, probably the most famous air demonstration team ever.
An earlier generation of the Blue Angels
This was taken at Eglin AFB of a operational F18 just clearing the runway. Not sure what a Navy F18 was doing on an Air Force Base.
This is a real once operational Mitsubishi A6M, AKA Zero seen at an airshow. These were the terror of the skies in the WWII Pacific theater until overwhelmed by hordes of superior American pilots and aircraft by late 1943.
Generations of Military transport aircraft in the air together and photoshopped somewhat. The DC3, known as the C47 was probably one of the very most important aircraft in WWII. Made by Douglas Aircraft in quantities of God knows how many 10’s of thousands, they were everywhere, carrying everything for all nations allied to the US. My Dad, then a platoon commander with the 101st Airborne jumped out of one of these the night of June 6, 1944 into what he described as a f****** mess of thousands of American paratroopers lost and separated in the dark forming impromptu groups from various units and stumbling about in the night shooting equally confused Germans.
This is a Mig15, the Russian aircraft that mixed it up with F-86 American Saber over the Yalu River in the early 1950’s during the Korean war. Before the Americans hustled the then brand new F86’s over to Korea, the Migs were quite the problem, being far superior to anything we had in theater. This was quite a formidable design and was superior to the F86 in climb, top speed and altitude until several improvements had been made. The “funny” part is that the Brits, our allies, sold the engine design to the Russians. At the time, the Russians lacked the ability to design such an engine. Wonder how many US lives that cost?
A B25 in bomber configuration, a heavily used medium bomber in all theaters also converted to extremely heavily armed gunships to strafe Japanese shipping and airfields.
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Fantastic captures. Wonderful pictures.