It is listed as a gunnery film but there is a lot of footage of second line/obsolete aircraft being flown by the Navy in training missions. Thrown in are a Spitfire and a D.510.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yVe2aVYfw
Here's a montage for our new digital book "SBD Dauntless in Detail & Scale". This is an updated and expanded edition of the long out-of-print hard copy "SBD Dauntless in Detail & Scale" covering one of the few combat aircraft to serve from the beginning to the end of WWII. The pivotal role the...
BBC reporting an F-18 of the US Navy has crashed in Cambridgeshire at about 10.30 am UK time this morning.
Update.
Unfortunately it seems the pilot has lost his life.
:salute:
LONDON (AP) — An American philanthropist and investor has recovered a bell from a British battleship that was sunk in the North Atlantic during World War II.
A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen retrieved the bell from the HMS Hood, once the largest warship in the world and the Royal...
In the early to mid-fifties, three, at or near Mach 2, air superiority fighters was developed by the AF and Navy, the F-104 Starfighter, the F8U Crusader, and the F11F-1F Super Tiger. All three powered by a single 16-18k lb thrust jet engine, the J-79 for the Starfighter and Super Tiger, and...
USS Arizona's oldest survivor dies at 100
RIP sir. :salute:
Joe Langdell was working as a junior accountant in Boston when he got the idea that he should join the Navy and go to sea. It was 1940 and America edged closer every day to joining the war that raged in Europe.
After proving...
Hi Guys, this is a bit of a deal in New Zealand and to honour the battle's 75th anniversary, a recreation of the welcome home march of the cruiser HMS Achilles' crew down the main street of Auckland was held on the 13th. Here are some related links. From the RNZN's facebook page, includes...
Morning guys,
Well this summer my Grandfather passed away and going through his things we found this. Not exactly sure what its for or the emblem represents. He was in the Navy during WWII but don't know much more about the emblem.
Thanks in advance Paul
Hello all :)
Here is my new video on the group french navy pilots
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygk5Su-Lb2U
I wish you a good flight and a good weekend :)
Regional newspapers published this news yesterday. The wreck was found accidentally near Žirja island on the Croatian Adriatic coast and is apparently in very good condition. It lacks the engine which probably broke off during the impact and is found on the seabed nearby.
According to available...
Title: Mediterranean Blue
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil on board
Size Width: 86 cm
Size Height: 61 cm
Size Depth: 1 cm
Theme: Marine
Price: Please request
Description: HMS Anson was one of five King George V Class battleships built to counteract the threat from Nazi...
Title: Parting Company
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size Width: 70 cm
Size Height: 50 cm
Size Depth: 2 cm
Theme: Marine
Price: request price
Description: This painting is of HMS Royal Sovereign one of five 'R' class battleships that served during both world...
Title: Momentum
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size Width: 70 cm
Size Height: 50 cm
Size Depth: 2 cm
Theme: Marine
Price: request price
Description: This painting is of HMS Royal Oak and is taken from an early black and white areial photograph when she was on...