Rugby player Giant captures USAF last B52!

Hercules Storm

Started as an acorn in the undercarriage...

USAF fly over Kuwaiti oil fires in 1991

OXCART A-12 Spy planes at Area 51 in 1964

Budget Fighter Ground Attack aircraft

Once worth millions, now...

Another great Illusion...(hopefully)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning back from dead ( 2 )

July 1942 two Boeing B-17 bombers were being escorted by six Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters as they flew over Greenland towards Reykjavik, Iceland.
Disoriented by poor visibility, and a decision to return to base and abandone thier mission caused them to run out of fuel.
They had no choice but to crash-land on the icecap of Greenland.

The men were rescued later, but the aircraft left to thier Icy fate, became known as the lost squadron.

Fifty years later a rescue paarty of enthusiasts returne for the aircraft.

The Glacier Girl, the twin-engine P-38 “Lightning” fighter that was recovered from beneath the Greenland ice cap in 1992, is now fully restored and amazing audiences with her story wherever she goes.

More detailed intel here, here and here

Lockheed P-38 Lightning back from dead ( 1 )

For 65 years, holidaying families have built sandcastles, strolled and swum, all unaware that underneath them lay the ramains of the P-38 Lightning which crash landed in WW2.
The fighter plane re-emerged after freak weather conditions caused the sands to shift and expose its rusting frame on the beach in Gwynedd, north Wales.


It used to look like this

Guiding 'em to the fight...

F15

F-22 Raptor

A F-22 Raptor "hovering" vertically at the "Arctic Thunder" air show at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska

F22 Raptor optional extras

Four generations of Fighter Ground Attack planes

A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-86 Sabre, P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang

MV-22 Osprey

Approx 448 of these versatile craft will serve with the US forces, although originally they wanted over 900. Battle damage tolerance is built into the aircraft via composite construction, and separated flight control, electrical, and hydraulic systems.

F-102 Delta Dagger

1,000 built between 1956-1973. Saw combat in Vietnam, and with Turkish air force. Retired from USAF service 1979, although hundreds of F-102s were converted for use as target drones for F-4, F-106, F-15 and Patriot missile testing.
(last Delta Dagger PQM-102 drone was shot down in 1986)









F-102 fighters at Tan Son Nhut,Vietnam,1969

David & Goliath

And Goliath turned and ran...



Tupolev Tu-95 (Туполев Ту–95) (NATO code Bear)



It's an old game, here's a F-102 Delta Dagger sending a Bear home in early sixties

They're coming!

Can't say where...
Can't say how...



But you'll know WHEN!

SHOT DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY ( 8 ) B-26 Marauder

German flak bags another unfortunate B26


Flak shoots off B26 wing


B26 limped home aftr raid in Africa



Martin B-26 Marauder, Poperinge, Belgium