Collection

Selected archive images from the Let Let Let members

Aircraft of the Baltic States

Aircraft of the Baltic States

Although the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania gained their independency shortly after the First World War, they were at the outbreak of the Second World War occupied by Soviet forces. “Liberated” for a short period by the Germans, the were again occupied by Soviet forces until the Soviet Empire fell apart. In spite of [...]

Italian aircraft types

Italian aircraft types

The Italian aircraft manufacturers have a long history that goes back to the dawn of manned flight. Many pioneers like Caproni, the automobile manufacturer Fiat, railway car and ship-building company Piaggio and the company Savoia-Marchetti became well-known and established names in aviation history. The Italian aircraft builders have constructed a very large number if different [...]

KNVvL photo archive

KNVvL photo archive

LetLetLet Warplanes has come into the possession of some 250 photos from the collection of the Dutch Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Society ‘KNVvL’. Photos were used by the editorial staff of the KNVvL ‘house’-magazine VLIEGWERELD, later AVIA-VLIEGWERELD, for publiation in these magazines. Although all photos on Dutch aviation from this collection are elsewhere, and although it [...]

Focke Wulf Fw190

Focke Wulf Fw190

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger, was a German, single-seat, single-engine fighter and fighter bomber aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late ’30s. It was used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. It partially replaced the Messerschmitt Bf 109 in 1941. Over 20,000 were manufactured, including around 6,000 fighter-bomber models. Production ran from 1941 [...]

Modern Warplanes

Modern Warplanes

This is the pack of the selected images of the modern combat airplanes. Images present operational airplanes, prototypes, special units and airplane in the manufacturing process. Robert Massoni in front of his fighter In the following order this types are presented: A-7 Corasir, Alize, Breguet Atlantic, Draken two seater, F-101 flown by captain Massoni, F-105, [...]

Johannisthal

Johannisthal

When Anthony Fokker went into serious aviation business it became soon evident that there was no place for him in his homeland The Netherlands. Johannisthal 1913 booklet Instead he moved to Germany together with his old schoolfriend Frits Cremer and after some preliminary wandering he finally settled at Johannisthal near Berlin, at that time the [...]

Sud Est SE.210 Caravelle

Sud Est SE.210 Caravelle

Designed by a team headed by Pierre Satre, the Sud Est Caravelle was one of the most innovative and original jetliners of the fifties. With a nose section resembling that of the De Havilland Comet* it had the unique feature of engines mounted in pods at the rear end on each side of the fuselage. [...]

WW2 Various Arado and Heinkel

WW2 Various Arado and Heinkel

Images of early Arado and Heinkel prototypes, trainer and seaplanes from the late 1920s and early 1930s. All but one photo come from an Luftwaffen photographers estate and have been developed from his negatives. My special thank goes to Mr. Lars Henriksson and Mr. Lars Sundin as well as our own Nico Braas who helped [...]

Various combat types

Various combat types

Images of the various combat planes, starting with Albatros WW1 combat plane up to the modern jet age. Most of the images show German airplanes and prototypes. Images bellow present following types: Seahawk Albatros D.12, Avro Arrow, B-25 Michell MLD, BAC Lightning and Soviet Tupolev Bear, Fairey Firefly Turget Tug MLD, Fokker C.Vd, Hawker Hunter [...]