Aircraft
North American F-86D Sabre
F-86D Serial 52-4063 of the 513th Fighter Interceptor Squadron – Phalsbourg-Bourscheid Air Base France – 1958 Source: United States Air Force Historical Research Agency – Maxwell AFB, Alabama The mighty Sabre was America’s first sweptwing jet and the world’s first air-superiority fighter. Throughout the Korean War it dominated the sky and shot down formidable Russian MiGs at a 10:1 ratio.…
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Sopwith Triplane
In their search for an outstanding fighting aeroplane the Sopwith experimental department decided in early 1916 to build an entirely new design–a triplane. The completed machine had three narrow-chord wings. The combined wing area of the three mainplanes gave the aircraft plenty of lift. Ailerons were fitted to all three…
SR.N6 ‘Winchester’ class air-cushion vehicle
SR.N 6 ‘Winchester’ is the military variant of the widely-used SR.N6 fast ferry. It can be used in the logistics role over swampy terrain or as here, as a fast coastal patrol craft’ It can be armed with20-mm cannon or with short-range SSMs. Designed originally as a fast ferry for…
Stuka-Schlacht
On 1 May 1939 a full-scale redesignation of all Luftwaffe units took place; additional to the Stuka units 4 (Stuka)/Trädgergruppe 186 had been formed at Burg, near Magdeburg, for service aboard the uncompleted aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin and was operating the Ju87B, as was the elite IV (Stuka)/LG 1. In…
Soviet “Iron Dog”
Soviet Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 16 GIAP (to which some of the top Airacobra aces, including Aleksandr Pokryshkin belonged) scored an average of 9.5 victories for every pilot casualty whilst flying the Airacobra during the period April 9, 1943 through September 21, 1943. The stopping power of the cannon was…
Avro York
The third prototype York LV633 “Ascalon” (the first of the type with triple fins) was used by Winston Churchill and had square windows instead of the usual round ones. Allocated the civil registration G-AGFT, it was never applied. One of the wartime agreements concluded between Britain and the United States…
The Berlin Airlift 1948-49
Dancing with Bears-The Berlin Airlift – Set during the Berlin airlift this scene captures the harassment of the Soviet planes as Allied cargo comes in on a constant schedule. By Brian Bateman The joint occupation of Berlin had made sense when the Allies were expected to co-operate in administering Germany.…