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The Hawker Hunter - A comprehensive guide

The Hawker Hunter – A comprehensive guide

Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters [...]

RIAT 2007

RIAT 2007

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]

Vvvrrooooommm

Vvvrrooooommm

Few decades ago bitter fight was happen over the South Asia sky and opposed sides was India and Pakistan. Art bellow captured one moment in this war and this is battle happen over Dacca on 4 December 1971, when the India’s pilot Harish Masand had down Pakistan F-86 Sabre piloted by Saeed Afzal Khan. Masand [...]

Duxford 2007

Duxford 2007

Duxford is an excellent museum and must rate as one of the best aircraft museums in the world, it is located in Cambridgeshire and was an active airfield during the Second World War. The famous pilot Douglas Bader was based at Duxford also the film Battle of Britain was filmed here. Followingg airplanes are present [...]

Hendon March 2007

Hendon March 2007

One of the most famous collection of preserved aircraft in the world- museum in Hendon. Author Robert Hodgson visited RAF museum at Hendon in March 2007 and here are some photos of aircraft not photographed on previous visits. Helicopter in rescue yellow color Images present following airplanes: Sikorsky Hoverfly I s/n KK995, Westland Whirlwind HAR10 [...]

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

One of the many of museums in the UK is this small one- City of Norwich Aviation Museum. This Museum is located just off the A140 Norwich to Cromer road, on the north side of Norwich airport. This nice small collection have following airplanes present on images bellow: Lightning Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 51-6718, [...]

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 [...]