437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Boeing C-17A Globemaster III on final for runway 16R at PAE, carrying the presidential VH-3D helicopter for the visit to the Oso disaster area.
One of three MV-22B (or are they VV-22B's?) sits on the tarmac at Paine Field waiting for the arrival of POTUS and his press corps to take them to Oso, Washington to tour the devastation caused by a recent landslide in the area.
W.Nr. 1342 was operated by JG 51 with the code "Yellow 10" and piloted by Fw. Eduard Hemmerling during the Battle of Britain. He crashed and was killed off the coast of Cap Blanc Nez on July 29, 1940 after combat with British Spitfires.
W.Nr. 1342 was operated by JG 51 with the code "Yellow 10" and piloted by Fw. Eduard Hemmerling during the Battle of Britain. He crashed and was killed off the coast of Cap Blanc Nez on July 29, 1940 after combat with British Spitfires.
Allocated to Royal Air Force as 'AH935', but was not delivered. Delivered to Soviet AF as '194' on September 27, 1942. It was shot down by a Bf-109 and crash landed in a forest near Archangelsk, Russia, 1943.
Tallahassee Lassie gets towed back to the hanger after a Free Fly Day at the Flying Heritage Collection owned by Paul Allen. Lassie was flown by a Seattle-area pilot during WWII and is a combat veteran.
A beautiful back-end view of of FHC's newly-restored Hellcat after her first public outing. What a great experience it is to be able to see these warbirds fly!
Upupa Epops rolls by the crowd line after putting on an impressive display with FHC's Spitfire and the P-51B of the Historic Flight Foundation on Allied Aces Day 2013. All three warbirds are combat vets.
A close-up of the badge painted on the fuselage of the FHC's BF-109. Tanslated, it means "God Destroy England". This aircraft was mortally wounded during the Battle of Britain and crash-landed on the coast of France.
The wreckage of this I-16 was discovered in Russia in 1991 and was re-built in the same factory where it was manufactured originally. It is one of the few flying I-16's left in the world today. The world's only surviving FW-190 D-13 is in the background.
The elongated nose section containing the inverted Jumo engine of the only D-13 Dora to have survived the war, now on display (in flying condition) at Paul Allen's museum in Everett, Washington.
This beautiful Butcher Bird is part of Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection and is routinely flown during "free fly days" during the summer in the skies over Everett, WA
Mortally wounded, this BF-109 limped back to the French coastline during the Battle of Britain where it crash landed. Unlike many preserved BF-109's which contain license-built parts from Spain, this aircraft contains 100% original German parts.