time for tea

Formation flight Sunday. Harriers

De Havilland Vampire T.11

A Mosquito bomber in flight

‘The Duke of Edinburgh and his grandson Prince Harry paid their respects at Westminster Abbey’s Field of Remembrance today.‘

A British Supermarine Seafire (carrier-based version of the Spitfire) of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm is prepared on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable. Mediterranean Sea. December 1942.

Tanks!!!

Two Royal Air Force Hawker Tempest Vs, no doubt at full pelt, intercept a V1 flying bomb during the latter stages of the Second World War. The V1, also known as the doodlebug or buzz-bomb, posed quite the problem for Britain as only the latest fighters could catch the things and once they did, simply shooting at one still detonated its high explosive contents. The solution was to fly up to within 6 inches of the V1s wing and use the airflow over the interceptor’s own wing to induce an unrecoverable spin. Damn hairy stuff.

Fourth of a group of pictures taken from a Heinkel He-111 chronicling her dogfight with a Supermarine Spitfire during the Battle of Britain.

Spitfires lined up ready to go

Supermarine Spitfire