#fighter pilots

[nesyanast]

Jewish Soviet Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War 2.

With five solo victories, she claimed up to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots to have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aeroplanes.

When she shot down a Bf 109 G-2 "Gustav" on the tail of her squadron commander, Raisa Beliaeva, the Bf 109 was piloted by a decorated pilot from the 4th Air Fleet, commanded by General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (a distant relative of the Red Baron), the 11-victory ace, staff Sergeant Erwin Maier of the 2nd Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 53. Maier parachuted from his aircraft, was captured by Soviet troops, and asked to see the Russian ace who had outflown him. When he was taken to Litvyak, he thought he was being made the butt of a Soviet joke. It was not until Litvyak described each move of the fight to him in perfect detail that he knew he had been shot down by a woman pilot.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #soviet jews #jewish women #ww2 #ussr #fighter pilots

[thatsrightice]

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#someone take a pic of the jacket at the museum and send it to me #Grumman F-14 Tomcat Bye-Bye Baby…! #<- find all other pages here #f-14 tomcat #top gun #aviation #fighter pilots #Dan Darth Cain #quotes #funny #page 40/41

[dieerstenunddieletzten]

This blog is here to introduce a few of the many skilled fighter pilots of WW2 as well as their aeroplanes.

The lives of these men were interesting, sad, adventures and above all worth telling.

#Aviation #Fighter pilots #WW2 #luftwaffe

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers’ Binding Thursday

I found this publishers’ binding while browsing the stacks on the hunt for a good one. My eye was drawn to the bright green bookcloth and then I saw the nice font and sweet little biplane on the cover. Once I looked inside, I noticed the bright, orange-red endpapers and the illustrations that show so much action and movement, one of which has a caption that starts “Listen, big boy...” 

The book is Doomed Demons by Eustace L. Adams (1981-1963), an American author best known for writing aviation adventure stories for boys. Doomed Demons was published in 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap in New York and features a story about WWI fighter pilots. The illustrations were done by J. Clemens Gretter (1904-1988), an artist and illustrator from Indiana who also worked as a cartoonist for comic books and signed much of his work “Clem Gretta” or simply “Gretta.”

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #publishers' bindings #airplanes #biplanes #war stories #WWI #Eustace L. Adams #Eustace Lane Adams #J. Clemens Gretter #Gretta #Grosset & Dunlap #illustrations #fighter pilots #Alice #big boy #endpapers #endsheets #illustrated endpapers

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Behind the scenes footage and Iceman polaroid pics 🥰🧊❄️🤍💙👑

#val kilmer #iceman #top gun #top gun: maverick #adorable #tom kazansky #team iceman #Ice ice bby #look at him #He knew he was going to affect an entire generation even back then #top gun 1986 #volleyball scene #tom cruise #rick rossovich #tony scott #tim robbins #fighter pilots #iceman and slider #Slice #maverick #icemav #cool as ice

[wickedissy10101]

praying for rooster , hangman, phoenix , bob,mav and entire squad as canonically they would be in the south china sea for nancys vist to taiwan

#bradley bradshaw x reader #taiwan #nancy pelosi #top gun #fighter pilots #pete maverick mitchell #hangman top gun #bob floyd x reader

[aviationgeek71]

TDIH June 4, 1942, this is the view of U.S. airmen during the Battle of Midway.

#battle of Midway #avgeek #aviation #aviation history #history #airplane #ww2 #wwii #tdih #on this day #this day in history #on this day in history #navy #fighter pilots #pilots

[misterivy]

#aces high #malcolm mcdowell #christopher plummer #peter firth #ww1 #fighter pilots

[subtile-jagden]

Fritz Rumey with Jasta 5 comrades Otto Könnecke and Josef Mai in 1918.

#WW1 #Fighter pilots

[vikkicomics]

Liney line lines. Ottoway vol 2 sneak peak. Richtofen cameo. He will save your life and then insult you in morse code. I’m tryna make daily updates so here’s a thing.

#ottoway vol 2 #lines #german officers #fighter pilots #ww1fiction #planes #richtofen #trench rats #my graphic novel #line art

[indynerdgirl]

I'm also getting my brother this poster as a graduation present (he graduates from his F22 training next month), but I can't decide if I should get the sunrise version or the sunset version. Even though the sunset version is a little harder to read, I'm leaning that way. Which do y'all think is the better one? 🤔

#F22 #F-22 #F22 Raptor #F-22 Raptor #fighter pilot #fighter pilots #air force #us air force #united states air force #tell me how #flying #aviation #military aviation

[thatsrightice]

“Dude, all I know was I was in close and they’re like ‘a little power’ and I look down and saw the ******* back of the ship above me and I was like AHHHHHHH!!!!” — A pilot literally shaking after a night carrier landing

PBS Carrier (2008) Ep 7: Rites of Passage

#pls watch #I’m begging #you won’t regret it #PBS Carrier #aircraft carriers #I like planes #and aircraft carriers #top gun #video #aviation #fighter pilots #NOTE the playlist is out of order #really good show btw very candid and open and covers a lot of v difficult topics #at least watch episode 7 pls #it’s such a shenanigans filled episode and then with the pitching deck it’s crazy #reference #this is why top gun opened with the night carrier landing #Maverick #F/A-18 hornet #2008 #airplanes

[dieerstenunddieletzten]

Adolf Galland (1912 - 1996). He started his aviation career with a sail plane, winning many competitions. After school he was one of the very few accepted into flight school and successfully graduated. For around a year he flew commercial flights between Germany and Spain. As part of the secret re-creation of a German air force, he was recruited to join the army. After basic training he was part of the first Luftwaffe, training new pilots at the (still disguised) military flight training school at Schleißheim. In 1937 he volunteered for the Condor Legion and went to fight in the Spanish civil war. He participated in WW2 from start to finish, distinguishing himself during the Battle of Britain. He earned the Eisernes Kreuz mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Diamanten.

He reached the rank of Generalleutnant and was the General der Jagdflieger (General of the fighter pilots) from Dec. 1941 - Jan. 1945.

He was part of the "Verschwörung der Jagdflieger" (fighter pilot conspiracy), when many of the aces were unhappy with Hermann Göring and tried to reinstall Galland.

After trouble with the Gestapo and ostracized by Göring, Galland asked to create a fighter squadron of aces equiped with the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft Me-262 (Jagdverband 44). Many of the highest ranking aces were members: Gerhard Barkhorn, Günther Lützow, Johannes Steinhoff, Walter Krupinski (to name a few).

He was credited with 104 victories.

After being wounded in April 1945 he couldn't continue flying and waited for the end of the war.

#Adolf Galland #WW2 #fighter pilots #luftwaffe

[avaniacomic]

Avania, No.7 Back Cover

#dieselpunk #aircraft #air show #fighter pilots #military #issue7 #blanche #walter #daniel #winters #selena #sarah #felix

[avi8tors]

There are some really beautiful shots in this.

#fighter jets #fighter pilots #people are awesome #reels #aviation #top gun

[topgunreacts]

I smashed Naruto and Top Gun together like a Fullmetal Alchemist chimera and like a Fullmetal Alchemist chimera it is an affront to god and human decency.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Naruto, Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto Characters: Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto Additional Tags: Fighter Pilots, ninja way, Protective Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto is Just Naruto, what does that tag mean, Rescue Missions, Alternate Universe - Top Gun Fusion, Movie: Top Gun Maverick (2022), Alternate Universe, Romance, Action & Romance, Boys Kissing, Idiots in Love, Rivals With Benefits, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Mountains, Self-Sacrifice, Sharingan, Action/Adventure Summary:

Naruto gets shot down. Sasuke follows.

#top gun #naruto #top gun fanfiction #naruto fanfiction #sns #sasukexnaruto #sasuke uchiha #naruto uzumaki #narusasu #sasunaru #fighter pilots #horrible #rancid