#Royal Air Force

[thesixthduke]

Spitfire pilots of No. 43 Squadron RAF keeping warm in their dispersal hut at Drem airfield, East Lothian.

#england #wwii #raf #world war 2 #royal air force #vintage #pilots #gentlemen #style #higginsandcole

[theworldatwar]

American volunteer pilots from ‘Eagle Squadron’ scramble to their Hawker Hurricanes at RAF Kirton in Lindsey air base - Lincolnshire, England, March 1941

#world war two #ww2 #worldwar2photos #history #1940s #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #ww2history #wwii era #kirton in Lindsey #lincoln #lincolnshire #raf #1941 #hawker #hawker hurricane #hurricane #royal air force

[colonellickburger]

Bert Hardy. African RAF Man, London 1949 (Picture Post 4825 – Is There A British Colour Bar?)

#Bert Hardy #RAF #Royal Air Force #serviceman #London #England

[nocternalrandomness]

Hawker Typhoons - RAF 56 SQDN - 1943

#RAF #Hawker #Typhoon #Fighter Bomber #WW2 #Vintage photo #Airplane #aviation #warplane #warbird #combat aircraft #Royal Air Force

[sabotpetal]

English Electric Lightning firing a Red Top air to air missile

#military aviation #aviation #royal air force #raf #english electric lightning

[texasaggie-seaknight]

Jake Dixon…

#motorcycle leathers #motorcycles #Jake Dixon #hothunks #motorcycle rider #motorcycle jacket #motorcycle boots #motorcycle #motorcycle racing #moto life #united kingdom #british grand prix #stud #Jake Curtis Dixon #motogp #royal air force

[theworldofwars]

150 Squadron (RAF) officers in front of one of their Bristol M.1c monoplane scout aircraft.

#raf #royal air force #the great war #historical photos #the first world war #world war 1 #world war one #wwi #1917 #canadian history #history #ww1

[sepiadays]

The Hawker P.V.3 was a proposed replacement for the Hawker Fury using the Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine. The Goshawk was a failure and thus so were all the aircraft based around it, but just as Supermarine's effort with the Goshawk would lead to the Spitfire, so too would the P.V.3 teach Hawker lessons incorporated in the Hurricane.

These photos were taken sometime between 1933 and 1935, most likely at Brooklands.

#1930s #1933 #1934 #1935 #Hawker P.V.3 #Hawker Fury #Hawker Hurricane #missing link #experimental #biplane #Royal Air Force #Rolls Royce Goshawk #Supermarine 224

[usaac-official]

A Fortress I (B-17C) of 90 Squadron RAF at Polebrook, likely 1941

#royal air force #RAF #B-17 #Flying Fortress #warbird #aviation history #90 Sqn RAF

[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

RAF Lightning of 5 Sqn on supersonic approach to intercept Soviet Tupolev bomber

#british military #royal air force #military aviation

[carbone14]

Réplique du planeur Airspeed AS. 51 Horsa – Mémorial Pegasus – Ranville – Calvados – Février 2008

Photograhe : Fodfish

#WWII #royal air force #raf #aviation militaire #military aviation #avion de transport #transport aircraft #planeur #glider #Airspeed AS. 51 Horsa #horsa #mémorial pegasus #ranville #calvados #normandie #normandy #france #02/2008 #2008

[theworldatwar]

An RAF Supermarine Spitfire pilot starts his engine as he readies for take off during the Battle of Britain - 1940

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #battle of britain #1940 #raf #royal air force #spitfire #supermarine spitfire #aviation #world war 2 colour photos

[boanerges20]

British Heavy Bomber Lancaster's Gunner WWII.

#raf #royal air force #lancaster #bomber #gunner #warplanes #ww2

[nocternalrandomness]

Display at the Yorkshire Air Museum of a tail gunner in an RAF Avro Lancaster Bomber during WW2

#Yorkshire Air Museum #Bomber crew #tail gunner #WW2 #Lancaster #combat #display #aircraft #Military display #RAF #Royal Air Force

[thepotentialof2007]

Lewis Hamilton's height being measured live on camera in 2013

#lewis hamilton #driver height #5 ft 7 #& small change #as determined by the #raf #medical staff #before they chuck him in a jet #2013 #first year at merc #ofc had yet to reach that early 30s growth spurt #rb of my 2021 post #with links to the flying part #wasn't showing up on dash?? #so reuploaded just this #royal air force #david coulthard

[pixelazer]

I wanted to start posting some of my collection of plane pics between art, so I present this absolute stick bug of a bomber, the British Blackburn R.T. 1 Kangaroo.

It saw service during WWI as an anti-submarine patrol plane and was operated by only one squadron, No. 246. Its service record is nothing special, either - it only sunk one U-boat during the six months it was active.

After the war, a couple were modified to serve as passenger aircraft to feed the burgeoning civil aviation market.

#aviation #royal air force #world war 1 #world war one #history #britain