Pictured above is Tom Morgenfeld, junior test pilot, in the first F-117 making a critical landing after the aircraft's nose wheel fell off after upon take off. He was advised to eject from the aircraft but was able to safely land and spare the aircraft.
The album looks a Shino-Japanese War photo collection made up by an IJN pilot of Chinkai Air Corps in Korea soon after the fall of Shanghai in November, 1937.
Awesome discovery.
Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 in its final assembly phase Soviet fighter Yak-3 in flight under control of test pilot Viktor Rastorguev. Naked prototype of the Polikarpov TsKB-3 or I-15, 1933. Several hundreds were still in service in 1941 when Germany invaded the USSR WWII planes
The Soviet long-range bomber Yer-2 during the factory tests at the Flight Research Institute (LII). The photo shows the first prototype of DB-240. same site