Favorites - Pedro Luz Cunha: September 2012

Friday, September 28, 2012

Heinkel He 60 off the beach

Heinkel He 60 off the beach:

Heinkel He 60 off the beach

Heinkel He 60

Heinkel He 60:

Heinkel He 60

Heinkel He 60:

Heinkel He 60

Heinkel He 60:

Heinkel He 60

Heinkel He 60. “A Heinkel He 60 flies above the German...

Heinkel He 60. “A Heinkel He 60 flies above the German...:

Heinkel He 60. “A Heinkel He 60 flies above the German Light cruiser Köln”

An A-10 Thunderbolt II pulls up behind a KC-10 Extender to be refueled in Southwest Asia on Sept. 18, 2012. The KC-10 is an advanced tanker and cargo aircraft designed to provide increased global mobility for U.S. armed forces. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Scott MacKay)
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Wings

Wings:

Travis Air Force Base Airmen conduct a mass launch of 12 mobility aircraft June 29, 2012, practicing the combat capability of safely and swiftly launching a large number of aircraft in a matter of minutes. The launch of six KC-10A Extenders, three C-17 Globemaster IIIs, and three C-5 Galaxies from this California base provided essential training across the spectrum of mobility capabilities, including flight operations, operations support, aircraft maintenance, fuels and air traffic control. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Robert Couse-Baker)
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Final Endeavour

Final Endeavour:

NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, carrying space shuttle Endeavour, departed Edwards Air Force Base at 8:17 a.m. on Sep. 21, 2012, to begin a four-and-a-half hour flyover of northern California and the Los Angeles basin. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jet Fabara)
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Show flare

Show flare:

A C-130 Hercules with the 107th Airlift Wing fires off flares during a night formation training mission. Flares are used to deter infrared homing (heat seeking) surface-to-air or air-to-air missile. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Ray Lloyd)
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Photoflying days: Thursday (part III)

Photoflying days: Thursday (part III):
If I had made my bucket list before the photoflying days; these two planes would have been on it! I really wanted to see these two air to air once. It didn’t even need to be at the same time! But on Thursday it just happened. I joined the Spitfire-Hurricane photoflight and got everything I could wish for. An amazing sight.
Previous parts:
http://apron6.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/photoflying-days-thursday-part-i/
http://apron6.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/photoflying-days-thursday-part-ii/

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Nakajima B6N "Tenzan" - 艦上攻撃機　"天山"

Nakajima B6N "Tenzan" - 艦上攻撃機　"天山": A NARA photo featuring in the foreground a Nakajima B6N "Tenzan" (Jill) found in Atsugi base, Kanagawa Prefecure, at the end of the war. It is equipped with H-6 ASV Radar as can be testified by the "Yagi-type" antennae. The unit marking has been overpainted and therefore is unknown. Probably a visiting airplane. In the background there are Zero-sen, Raiden and other aircraft belonging to the 302 Kokutai.

During our 2008 holiday trip to the paradise called Ogasawara or Bonin islands (HERE) we discovered that right in front of the pension we were staying there was the wheel-cover of a "Tenzan". It turned out to belong to one of the two aircraft of its type that were operated by the 903rd Kokutai.

It was in the sea surrounding the islands that former US President George H. W. Bush crash-landed and was subsequently rescued by a US submarine (Google for more).

de havilland Mosquito takes to the air!

de havilland Mosquito takes to the air!:

The worlds only flying de Havilland Mosquito has flown for the first time since its extensive restoration by the Ardmore based Avspecs company.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 flying boat fighter, circa 1947 (via THE_TARTANTERROR)

“19th August 1952: Chief test Pilot Geoffrey Tyson...

“19th August 1952: Chief test Pilot Geoffrey Tyson...:

“19th August 1952: Chief test Pilot Geoffrey Tyson standing by a 140 ton Saunders-Roe ‘Princess’ flying boat prior to flight trials. The plane is powered by ten Proteus 600 series ‘jet prop’ engines, can cruise at 350 mph and will take over a 100 passengers. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)” (via)

“The British Flying boat on the weekly London-Genoa run...

“The British Flying boat on the weekly London-Genoa run...:

“The British Flying boat on the weekly London-Genoa run ends up on the beach at Santa Margherita after a violent sea storm.

Date Photographed:01 September 1956

Photographer:Vittoriano Rastelli” (via)