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Flyer on the Big Kill Devil Hill, Wright Brothers National Memorial, 1903.

Flyer on the Big Kill Devil Hill, Wright Brothers National Memorial, 1...

The first flight took place on December 17, 1903 even though Wilbur and Orville tried to fly a few days earlier on the 14th. However, the wind was calm and the brothers knew they would never get off of the grou... More

[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 115 Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

Dismantling an aeroplane, during World War I

Dismantling an aeroplane, during World War I

A few soldiers gather round an aeroplane. Three of them are looking at the cockpit, while three others perch near the tail. According to the original caption, these men are dismantling the plane. There are no w... More

Montenegrinische Berge, Aufnahme auf einem Flugzeug.

Montenegrinische Berge, Aufnahme auf einem Flugzeug.

Luftaufnahme. Fotograf: 20. Korposkommando. Public domain photograph - Austro-Hungarian army during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive in 1918

An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive in 1918

ID Number: E01882 ..Place made: France: Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Savy ..An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old ... More

Aufstieg eines Jagdflugzeuges - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek public domain dedication

Aufstieg eines Jagdflugzeuges - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek pub...

Koledzyani in der Nähe von Narajow, Galizien. Fotograf: Korps Hofmann Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplanes - Engines - Manufacture of 80 H. P. LE Rhone engine by Union Switch and Signal Co., Swissvale, PA. Boring, forming contour and turning chucking threads on open end of cylinder

Airplanes - Engines - Manufacture of 80 H. P. LE Rhone engine by Union...

Date Taken: 7/0/1918 Photographer: Union Switch and Signal Co. Airplanes - Engines

Airplanes - Types - Standard Aircraft Corporation Plant, Elizabeth, N.J. Standard J Model, with Ox motor. It is an elementary training plane, type not used

Airplanes - Types - Standard Aircraft Corporation Plant, Elizabeth, N....

Photographer: Standard Aircraft Corp. Airplanes - Types Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplanes - Types - Airplanes for government use. L.W.F. Engineering Co., College Point L.I. Twenty men on L-W-F- Model V stock fuselage

Airplanes - Types - Airplanes for government use. L.W.F. Engineering C...

Photographer: L.W.F. Engineering Co. Airplanes - Types Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph of a de Havilland Mail Plane

Photograph of a de Havilland Mail Plane

American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs Public domain photograph of propeller aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae. A sound-proof covering over the pilot's set and transmitter is necessary and the electricity is manufactured by a generator run by a free fan. Experiments conducted at Bolling Field, Wash. Aug. 2, 1922

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new exper...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Naval sea plane, 8/28/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Naval sea plane, 8/28/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fokker Trimotor, 1929, NASA history collection

Fokker Trimotor, 1929, NASA history collection

Description (1929) The Langley flight crew installs an experimental low-drag cowling on the Fokker trimotor, 1929. Such cowlings increased fuel efficiency and overall performance...Center: LARC .Image # : L-03333

National Airport. Plane beside building and control tower at National Airport

National Airport. Plane beside building and control tower at National ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American cars, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Flight Students, 1939, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Flight Students, 1939, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A group of women posed around an airplane - summer 1939. Dave Raub's female flight students...Left to right: (standing) Jean Adams Cook (airport manager), Anne Beach, Grace Larkin Coffin, Edith Jenney, Kathryn ... More

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

F6 Karlsborg 1940. En division B4:or. (en division:9 flygplan och 3 i reserv). Åsaskogen i bakgrunden. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet samt som Word-dokument.

F6 Karlsborg 1940. En division B4:or. (en division:9 flygplan och 3 i ...

F6 Karlsborg 1940. En division B4:or. (en division:9 flygplan och 3 i reserv). Åsaskogen i bakgrunden. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns ... More

F6 Karlsborg 1940. Gästande De Havilland DH 90 "Dragon Fly". Tygverkstaden till höger. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet, samt som Word-dokument.

F6 Karlsborg 1940. Gästande De Havilland DH 90 "Dragon Fly". Tygverkst...

F6 Karlsborg 1940. Gästande De Havilland DH 90 "Dragon Fly". Tygverkstaden till höger. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet, samt ... More

The plane is of German design but natives of the Dutch East Indies have been trained to operate it with deadly efficiency. It's a twelve-ton trimotor Dornier bomber belonging to the Royal Netherlands Navy, the greater part of which is still fighting the Nazis and their Axis partners from the Netherlands East Indies

The plane is of German design but natives of the Dutch East Indies hav...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor plate after flame-cutting and before machining. Every plane must be perfectly flat to ensure a tight fit in the tank. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Feuling an N2S, primary land plane, at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Sailor mechanics at the base service the ship as a cadet prepares for the take-off

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Feuling an N2S, primary land pl...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Partial view of North American Aviation's B-25 final assembly floor at Inglewood, California. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Partial view of North Ameri...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing fittings and operating equipment in the body of a consolidated transport plane under construction in a Western plant. View is looking forward from the tail fuselage. Note how the wing center section (top center) passes through the plane body. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing fittings and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

F6 Karlsborg 1945. Flygets dag. Gästande flygplan Sk15 B, med huv och extratank. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet samt som Word-dokument.

F6 Karlsborg 1945. Flygets dag. Gästande flygplan Sk15 B, med huv och ...

F6 Karlsborg 1945. Flygets dag. Gästande flygplan Sk15 B, med huv och extratank. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet samt som Wor... More

Presidential Airplane, the Independence

Presidential Airplane, the Independence

Caption: Presidential airplane of President Harry S. Truman, the "Independence," in flight over unknown location. Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman

F6 Karlsborg 1952. Flygplan A21A3 (Tvestjärten) flygvapneta törstigaste flygplanstyp. Vattenkylning under motorkörning. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela donationen finns i albumet samt som Word-dokument.

F6 Karlsborg 1952. Flygplan A21A3 (Tvestjärten) flygvapneta törstigast...

F6 Karlsborg 1952. Flygplan A21A3 (Tvestjärten) flygvapneta törstigaste flygplanstyp. Vattenkylning under motorkörning. Albumet är en del av en donation från Karl-Axel Hansson, Karlsborg. Förteckning över hela ... More

Former POW and U.S. Air Force LCOL Richard P. Keirn (Captured 24 Jul 65) shakes hands with COL Raymond G. Lawry, Deputy Site Commander, Joint Homecoming Reception Center prior to boarding the plane that will return him to the United States

Former POW and U.S. Air Force LCOL Richard P. Keirn (Captured 24 Jul 6...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: HOMECOMING Base: Clark Air Base State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Camera Operator: Sp-5 Logan L. Mcminn Release... More

A plane director guides an F-4 Phantom II aircraft from the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron to a parking spot. The F-4 has just arrived at the base to participate in exercise Crested Cap '77

A plane director guides an F-4 Phantom II aircraft from the 8th Tactic...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: CRESTED CAP '77 Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Camera Operator: S... More

SPACE SHUTTLE IN VIC VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER

SPACE SHUTTLE IN VIC VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 8/15/1980 Photographer: DONALD HUEBLER Keywords: Larsen Scan Location Building No: 8 Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

A silhouetted view of a plane captain standing on the side of an A-6 Intruder aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

A silhouetted view of a plane captain standing on the side of an A-6 I...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Country: Indian Ocean (IOC) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Ken George Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More

A view of personnel aboard a C-141B Starlifter aircraft pushing cartons, with parachutes attached, out of the plane during an airdrop. The airdrop will provide personnel stationed at the South Pole with fresh produce and supplies

A view of personnel aboard a C-141B Starlifter aircraft pushing carton...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: South Pole Country: Antarctica (ATA) Scene Camera Operator: Ken Hackman Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Phot... More

Lockheed ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight Lockheed ref: C81-1197-13 ARC-1981-AC81-0523-3

Lockheed ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight Lockheed ref: C81-1197-13 ARC-1981...

Lockheed ER-2 (NASA-706) in flight Lockheed ref: C81-1197-13

A U.S. and a Somalian soldier discuss the SAM-2 medium-range surface-to-air missile being used during exercise Bright Star '82

A U.S. and a Somalian soldier discuss the SAM-2 medium-range surface-t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '82 Base: Berbera Country: Somalia (SOM) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Bill Thompson Release Status: Released to P... More

A view of an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missile on a display stand

A view of an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missile on a display stand

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Naval Weapons Center Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Artwork: "Two Generations of B-1's (1918-1983)" Artist: Karl Neumann

Artwork: "Two Generations of B-1's (1918-1983)" Artist: Karl Neumann

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A plane director guides a British Royal Navy FRS.Mk 1 Sea Harrier aircraft into a parking spot with three other Harriers on the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

A plane director guides a British Royal Navy FRS.Mk 1 Sea Harrier airc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A plane director guides an A-7E Corsair II aircraft into position on a catapult during flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68)

A plane director guides an A-7E Corsair II aircraft into position on a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Scene Camera Operator: JOC Fred J. Klinkenberger Jr. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Phot... More

A 101st Airborne Division color guard and honor guard stand at attention during an honor ceremony for members of the 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. On December 12, 1985, 248 soldiers of the 3rd Battaliion were killed in a plane crash at Gander Airport. They were returning to the United States after participating in peacekeeping duty with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert

A 101st Airborne Division color guard and honor guard stand at attenti...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Dover Air Force Base State: Delaware (DE) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Sgt Vincent R. Kitts Release Status: Re... More

A plane director guides an A-7E Corsair II aircraft into position on a catapult during flight operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70)

A plane director guides an A-7E Corsair II aircraft into position on a...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Charles R. Solseth Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photogr... More

Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; a view of the detached sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS SCORPION (SSN-589) laying on the ocean floor. The starboard fairwater plane is visible protruding from the sail. Masts are visible extending from the top of the sail (located at the lower portion of the photograph). A large segment of the after section of the sail including the deck access hatch is missing. Various articles from the operations compartment are scattered in this vicinity. The SCORPION was lost on 22 May 1968 with its entire crew

Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; a view of the de...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More

North Atlantic. A plane director signals to an AH-1T Sea Cobra helicopter preparing to land on the helicopter pad aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) during NATO Exercise NORTHERN WEDDING '86

North Atlantic. A plane director signals to an AH-1T Sea Cobra helicop...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WEDDING '86 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Mussi Release Status: Released to Public Combin... More

A plane handler directs a pilot to turn his T-2C Buckeye aircraft to the left as it taxies toward a catapult on the flight deck of the Auxiliary Aircraft Landing Training Ship USS LEXINGTON (AVT 16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico

A plane handler directs a pilot to turn his T-2C Buckeye aircraft to t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Lexington (AVT 16) Scene Camera Operator: Jim Bryant Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A plane director signals instructions to the pilot of a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II aircraft on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA 3)

A plane director signals instructions to the pilot of a Marine Corps A...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3) Scene Camera Operator: PHCS R.W. Bayles Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, West Germany, operates in the late evening skies during a training mission. The plane is one of eighteen such aircraft providing surveillance for member nations as directed by NATO's Airborne Early Warning Force commander

A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft from N...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. David Nolan Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

COL Gail S. Halvorsen leans out the window of a C-54 Skymaster aircraft on static display at Tempelhof Central Airport during ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the airlift which ended the Soviet blockade of Berlin. Halvorsen was known as the candy bomber during the blockade, because of his practice of dropping candy for the children out of his plane

COL Gail S. Halvorsen leans out the window of a C-54 Skymaster aircraf...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Berlin Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital P... More

View of a Russian MiG-29 fighter parked on the ramp after a demonstration flight for attendees at the Abbotsford Air Show. Exact Date Shot Unknown

View of a Russian MiG-29 fighter parked on the ramp after a demonstrat...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: British Columbia (BC) Country: Canada (CAN) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Pat Nugent Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

Pallets of cargo await loading aboard a 435th Tactical Airlift Wing C-130E Hercules aircraft at Luxembourg International Airport in preparation for transportation to West Germany during exercise REFORGER '90. The plane is being loaded while its engines continue to run (engine running onload), a process which promotes rapid deployment of cargo and personnel

Pallets of cargo await loading aboard a 435th Tactical Airlift Wing C-...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '90 Base: Luxembourg International Airport Country: Luxembourg (LUX) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER Sergeant Bill Tho... More

A plane director signals to the pilot of an AV-8B Harrier aircraft taxiing on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA-2) during a rehearsal for Operation Sharp Edge. The SAIPAN is on station off the coast of Liberia

A plane director signals to the pilot of an AV-8B Harrier aircraft tax...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: SHARP EDGE Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Kip Burke Release Status: Released to Public Combined Mil... More

A pilot and radar intercept officer from Fighter Squadron 103 (VF-103) sit in the cockpit of their F-14A Tomcat aircraft as a plane handler uses an MD-3A tow tractor to move the aircraft across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60) during Operation Desert Shield

A pilot and radar intercept officer from Fighter Squadron 103 (VF-103)...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More

A plane handler drives an MD-3A tow tractor pulling a cart loaded with wheel chocks past a line of F/A-18A Hornet aircraft the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) during Operation Desert Shield

A plane handler drives an MD-3A tow tractor pulling a cart loaded with...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More

The pilot of a Strike Fighter Squadron 86 (VFA-86) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft waits as his plane captain directs the removal of tie-down chains from the aircraft during flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66). The aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) are departing from the ship to return to their home bases after being deployed aboard the AMERICA for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. The AMERICA and its battle group will return to Naval Station, Norfolk, Va., on April 18th

The pilot of a Strike Fighter Squadron 86 (VFA-86) F/A-18C Hornet airc...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELDDESERT STORM Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Ac) Thomas E. Witham Release Status: Relea... More

A plane director guides a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat aircraft on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) during Operation Deny Flight

A plane director guides a Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84) F-14A Tomcat air...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DENY FLIGHT Country: Adriatic Sea Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Michael Wagner Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milit... More

A US Navy (USN) A-6E Intruder connects with the refueling drogue from the boom of a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135 Stratotanker

A US Navy (USN) A-6E Intruder connects with the refueling drogue from ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw) M.K. Miller, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, from the 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano, Italy, flies with a German MiG 29, NATO code-named Fulcrum, for a training exercise

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, from the 510th Fighter Squadron, ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Decimomannu State: Sardinia Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Tana R. Hamilton Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon flies with a German MiG 29, NATO code-named Fulcrum, off the coast of Sardinia during a joint training exercise. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon flies with a German MiG 29, NATO c...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DENY FLIGHT Base: Decimomannu State: Sardinia Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Tana R. Hamilton Release Stat... More

A view of the side plate of a P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft named Scat VII showing the score board for the aircraft with 24 Nazi aircraft shot down. This is the actual aircraft flown by Major Robin Olds in WWII. He purchased the plane from surplus after the war. The aircraft is taking part in Freedom Flight America and is making a stop over Andrews en route to New York City to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II

A view of the side plate of a P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft named Scat...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: FREEDOM FLIGHT AMERICA Base: Andrews Air Force Base State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camer... More

A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the Massachusetts Air National Guard, 104th Fighter Group, taxis on the runway for take off for NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs

A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the Massachusetts Air National...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DELIBERATE FORCE Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT. Bruce Sherwood Re... More

Right side profile of a Royal Air Force crew chief as he prepares a British Jaguar for a low-level reconnaissance mission, Operation Northern Watch, over northern Iraq. An AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile is seen mounted on top of the right wing of the Jaguar. This image is from the February 1999 edition of AIRMAN Magazine

Right side profile of a Royal Air Force crew chief as he prepares a Br...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Vince Parker, USAF Release S... More

Family and friends of 18 Virginia Air National Guard and three Florida Army National Guard members killed in a March 3rd C-23 Sherpa plane crash in Unadilla, Georgia, pay tribute to the men at a memorial service in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The memorial, which took place at Rock Church, was attended by Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz (not shown) and various other civilian and military dignitaries and over 5000 members of the community. The 18 airmen were assigned to the 203rd Red Horse Flight at Camp Pendleton State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia and were returning from temporary duty at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The three soldiers were assigned to the ...

Family and friends of 18 Virginia Air National Guard and three Florida...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Family and friends of 18 Virginia Air National Guard and three Florida Army National Guard members killed in a March 3rd C-23 S... More

Left side view of an F/A-18C Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron One Nine Two (VFA 192), at the instant that its hook catches wire three upon landing on the flight deck of the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

Left side view of an F/A-18C Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron One Nine ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Uss Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Scene Major Command Shown: CV-63 Scene Camera Operator: PH3 John E. Woods, USN ... More

S109E5594 - STS-109 - High Gain Antenna on +V3 plane on the Hubble Space Telescope

S109E5594 - STS-109 - High Gain Antenna on +V3 plane on the Hubble Spa...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: View the High Gain Antenna on the +V3 plane of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) while on the Flight Support Structure (FSS) in the Columbia's payload ba... More

A US Marine Corps (USMC) AV-8B Harrier jet, Marine Attack Squadron-513 (VMA-513), Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona (AZ), takes off from Bagram Air Base (AB), Afghanistan. The Harrier is carrying a Guided Bomb Unit (GBU)-16 and an AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening II Targeting Pod. US Marines are currently deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Marine Corps (USMC) AV-8B Harrier jet, Marine Attack Squadron-513...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Andrew Williams, USMC Release Status: Released to Public Co... More

The Joint Unmanned Air Vehicle (JUAV) Experiment Program consisting of British and Israeli contractors work together controlling the UAV which can be used in various aspects of the mission during Desert Rescue XI

The Joint Unmanned Air Vehicle (JUAV) Experiment Program consisting of...

Fallon Naval Air Station (Aug. 13, 2003) The Joint Unmanned Air Vehicle (JUAV) Experiment Program consisting of British and Israeli contractors work together controlling the UAV which can be used in various asp... More

US Air Force (USAF) military working dog (MWD) Ben, apprehends a "suspect," USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Raymond Castro, during his training as a standoff and non-lethal weapon of the 100th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), while on temporary duty (TDY) at RAF (Royal Air Force) Fairford, United Kingdom (UK). A USAF KC-135R Stratotanker sits on the ramp

US Air Force (USAF) military working dog (MWD) Ben, apprehends a "susp...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: RAF Fairford State: Suffolk Country: United Kingdom (GBR) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Stacia M. Willis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public C... More

An in-flight shot of a US Navy (USN) F/A-18B Hornet fighter, US Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), folding up its landing gear after take off for a training flight

An in-flight shot of a US Navy (USN) F/A-18B Hornet fighter, US Naval ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Daniel J. Mclain, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combin... More

SIERRA (Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft) Uninhabited Aerial System (UAV plane) on the Ames flightline (aka; Sierra Unpiloted Aerial system (UAS)) ARC-2010-ACD10-0125-012

SIERRA (Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft) Unin...

SIERRA (Systems Integration Evaluation Remote Research Aircraft) Uninhabited Aerial System (UAV plane) on the Ames flightline (aka; Sierra Unpiloted Aerial system (UAS))

A Qatar Emiri Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet takes off as part of a Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn mission.

A Qatar Emiri Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet takes off a...

SOUDA BAY, Greece (Mar. 25, 2011) A Qatar Emiri Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet takes off as part of a Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn mission. Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Comman... More

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Royal Maces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 27 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).

An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Royal Maces of Strike Fighter Squadro...

WATERS NEAR OKINAWA (Jun. 06, 2014) An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Royal Maces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 27 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft car... More

A U.S. Air Force F-16C from the 51st Fighter Wing,

A U.S. Air Force F-16C from the 51st Fighter Wing,

A U.S. Air Force F-16C from the 51st Fighter Wing, Osan Air Base, South Korea taxis for takeoff at Eielson AFB, Alaska, on July 11, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Halberstadt D IV (1)

Halberstadt D IV (1)

The D.IV was the final single-seat fighter model produced by the Halberstadter Flugzeug-Werke in 1917. The Halberstadt D.I and D.II models were originally produced in 1916, and while they were maneuverable and ... More

Anatra-Anasal

Anatra-Anasal

Anatra-Anasal Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morris and Essex Canal at Waterloo, N.J., boat ascending plane

Morris and Essex Canal at Waterloo, N.J., boat ascending plane

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS. FLIGHTS OF PLANE

JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS....

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplanes - Accidents - Falling airplane collides with the railroad train in Canada. While an airman was doing various stunts in the air at Toronto, Canada, his engine suddenly went dead and the plane out of control shot at tremendous speed toward the ground. Upon landing it collided with locomotive of munitions train with result shown above

Airplanes - Accidents - Falling airplane collides with the railroad tr...

Date Taken: 4/5/1919 Photographer: Underwood & Underwood Airplanes - Accidents Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplanes - Wheels - Tires manufactured for government use. Airplane tire. This was developed for use on De Haviland 4 light bombing plane and was very satisfactory. Note the inflexible "windshield" or "streamline". This was a later improvement which reduced air resistance. U.S. Tire Co. plant, N.Y

Airplanes - Wheels - Tires manufactured for government use. Airplane t...

Photographer: U.S. Tire Co. Airplanes - Wheels Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A US Navy (USN) flight deck leading CHIEF PETTY Officer (CPO) directs a USN F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft to catapult four as final checkers and catapult crews prepare the plane for launch on board the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The VFA-115 embarked with Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW 14) on board the LINCOLN and are conducting combat operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A US Navy (USN) flight deck leading CHIEF PETTY Officer (CPO) directs ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Philip A. Mcdaniel, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi... More

Camel & plane

Camel & plane

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The first plane of the new transcontinental air line, of which Col. Lindbergh is one of the organizers photographed at Boiling Fields today. It is named The Columbus

The first plane of the new transcontinental air line, of which Col. Li...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa, with plane overhead

I.P.C. [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company] terminus in Haifa, with plane ov...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lot plane arriving [at Lydda Airport]

Lot plane arriving [at Lydda Airport]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Curtis Edwards works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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Autogiro lands near U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2. A new type autogiro thousands of city folks may be parking in the yards or on the roofs of apartment houses in is shown about to land near the U.S. Treasury. The ship was flown to Washington by James G. Ray, veteran autogiro pilot, for delivery to the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce, who will make several acceptance test flights

Autogiro lands near U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2. A new type...

Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Harris and Ewing photo. Date (year) based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Ha... More

Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., chec...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes i...

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber final assembly plant. General view of the final assembly plant

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber final assembly plant. Ge...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more womanpower in airplane plants and airports, Mrs. Majorie Landa has enlisted as a member of the repair crew of the Washington National Airport. Daughter of the late Congressman Frank Mandell of Wyoming, Mrs. Landa is shown making repairs on the engine nacelle of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport plane. Following her second year at Sweetbriar College, she spent two months at a vocational training school in preparation for her present work

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more wo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Inglewood, California. A man and woman working on rudder controls for a P-51 fighter plane at North American Aviation, Inc.

Inglewood, California. A man and woman working on rudder controls for ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet a gusset to a plane wing rib at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito airdrome during a daylight raid which damaged machine shops and other installations. In the foreground a train of bombs may be seen dropping from the bay of a United States plane

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito air...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

[Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1. Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).

James Valentine - St. Albert at Dublin Airport, circa 1950

James Valentine - St. Albert at Dublin Airport, circa 1950

An Aer Lingus DC-3 plane at Dublin Airport's original terminal building. This curved building won design awards for its architect, Desmond Fitzgerald, brother of former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Garret Fitzger... More

Former POW and U.S. Navy LCMDR Everett Alvarez (Captured 5 Aug 64) talks at the microphones to the public and press there to greet the plane load of former POWs flown in from Clark Air Base. LCMDR Alvarez was released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on12 Feb 73

Former POW and U.S. Navy LCMDR Everett Alvarez (Captured 5 Aug 64) tal...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: HOMECOMING Base: Travis Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator:... More

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC AST AND BOEING PROPOSED UNITED STATES SST SUPERSONIC TRANSPORTS

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC AST AND BOEING PROPOSED UNITED STATES SST SUPERSO...

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 4/4/1977 Photographer: DONALD HUEBLER Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Left side view of the "Viper", seen on the television series "Battlestar Galactica". The guard base is the setting for "Galactica 1980" segment of the science fiction series

Left side view of the "Viper", seen on the television series "Battlest...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Van Nuys State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Judy Mccormick Release Status: Released to Pu... More

Plane directors signal instructions to the pilot of an A-7E Corsair II aircraft during launch and recovery operations aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)

Plane directors signal instructions to the pilot of an A-7E Corsair II...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Dave Maclean Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Phot... More

GYSGT R. L. Northrup tests the engines of a C-117 aircraft after performing maintenance on the plane. The C-117 is scheduled to be retired from active duty in a few years

GYSGT R. L. Northrup tests the engines of a C-117 aircraft after perfo...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Marine Corps Air Station,Iwakuni Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Camera Operator: CPL L. G. Gyorfi Release Status: Released to Public Combined Militar... More

Artwork: "German Bomber Maintenance" Artist: H. Recksiegel

Artwork: "German Bomber Maintenance" Artist: H. Recksiegel

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A right side view of an F-4E Phantom II and an F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel Phantom II from the 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron. The F-4G is also equipped with two AGM-45 Shrike missiles, an AGM-65 Maverick missile on the inside right wing pylon, and an AGM-78 Standard anti-radiation missile on the left inside wing pylon. Both are equipped with AN/ALQ-119 ECM pod

A right side view of an F-4E Phantom II and an F-4G Advanced Wild Weas...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SMSGT D. Sutherland Release Status: Released to Public Combined M... More

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