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One of 70 Pucara reconnaissance and counter insurgency attack aircraft delivered to Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina) by early 1982 as A-515, one of 35 Pucaras allotted to Grupo 3 de Ataque (III Brigada Aerea). Allocated RAF serial ZD485
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In 1924, the Royal Aero Club organized a Light Aircraft Competition. £3000 was offered in prizes. An entry was made by Hawker Aircraft, which was a design by Sydney Camm, the Cygnet. Camm had joined Hawker the previous year. Two aircraft were built (G-EBMB and G-EBJH) and were entered in the competition, held in 1924 at Lympne Aerodrome, by T. O. M. Sopwith and Fred Sigrist. The aircraft were flown by Longton and Raynham and came in 4th and 3rd places respectively. In 1925, G-EBMB was entered again in the 100 mi (161 km) International Handicap Race, this time flown by George Bulman, who won at a speed of 75.6 mph (121.7 km/h). At the same meeting, the Cygnet came 2nd in the 50 mi (80 km) Light Aeroplane Race. In 1926, both aircraft were entered in the competition piloted by Bulman and Flying Officer Ragg, taking first and second place respectively.
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1st of type on AC !
30 Sea Balliols were produced and served with 781 squadron at Lee-on-Solent and 1843 Squadron RNVR at Abbotsinch. The last one was delivered in December 1954
The Merlin powered Balliol, designated Balliol T.2, first flew on 10 July 1948 and after extensive evaluation, it was chosen over the Athena, with large orders being placed to replace some of the Harvards in RAF service.
The Sea Balliol T.21 had folding wings and arrestor hook for deck landings.
By 1951, however, the Air Ministry changed its mind about its training requirements yet again and decided to introduce a jet-powered advanced trainer, the de Havilland Vampire T.Mk11.
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Built by British Aerospace as the sole example of the Experimental Aircraft Programme technology demonstrator, as part of the development of a new agile air superiority fighter, which eventually appeared as the Eurofighter Typhoon. In May 1983, the British Government signed a contract with BAe for EAP development. This was jointly funded by the Ministry of Defence and industry including MBB of Germany and Aeritalia. The single airframe was intended to research technologies associated with advanced fighter development, incorporating a fly-by-wire system (evaluated on Jaguar test bed XX765), and the concept of the delta wing with canards. The airframe was built by BAe using an adapted Tornado rear fuselage and fin/rudder and one Italian built wing. First flight 8 August 1986
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As the final ‘Aardvark’ production variant, the F-111F featured improved avionics, including navigational and digital computer systems, improved wing structure and landing gear, and more powerful Pratt & Whitney TF30-P-100 engines; 106 were built.
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Surrendered to elements of
Surrendered to the RAF Regiment at Husum airfield, Schleswig - Holstein, close to the Danish border. By late April 1945 Husum had become the base of the last operational Me163 Unit, II/JG400 with some 80 Me163B aircraft on strength, largely grounded due to lack of fuel.
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The Bristol 188 was the first Bristol turbojet aeroplane to be built. Two flying examples were constructed with the objective of reaching and sustaining twice the speed of sound for long enough to enable steady-state kinetic heating effects on the structure to be experienced and recorded.
After considerable production delays the first aircraft XF923, made its maiden flight 14 April 1962. First flight of XF926,from Filton ,was 29 April 1963.
Both aircraft were grounded indefinitely and the project suspended in February 1964, partly due to problems of high fuel consumption and the inability to reach sustained high speed and achieving the original operational requirement for the project.
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To the RAF Museum Cosford December 2012 after many years suspended in the Imperial War Museum, London
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Este modelo era el helicóptero tecnológicamente más avanzado del Ejercito de los Estados Unidos: radar seguimiento y anticolisión, sensores infrarrojos, sistema de navegación inercial, GPS, Doppler y posicionamiento global, proyección de mapas para penetración a bajo nivel, preparado para operaciones nocturnas-todo tiempo . Todo ello destinado a prestar servicios a las Fuerzas Especiales tras las líneas enemigas combinando con la posibilidad de realizar operaciones CSAR (búsqueda y rescate en combate).
Dotado de blindaje mediante placas podía portar 38 soldados equipados a una velocidad máxima de 266 km/h.
Además, a esta versión IV del Pave Low se le dotó del IAS/MATT, un sistema de defensa con actualizaciones en tiempo real del campo de batalla y que mejora el nivel de detección de amenazas.
El CV-22 Osprey ha sido el reemplazo del MH-53 (el ejemplar de la fotografía fue baja el 30 de septiembre de 2008).
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La deriva de este ejemplar fue decorada en ambos lados recordando los años de servicio de los diversos modelos de Harrier que en el período indicado prestaron servicios en el Reino Unido, anticipando en Noviembre de 2010 lo que sería su ceremonia de baja por motivos presupuestarios.
Así ornamentado y con el indicativo “Jedi 01” participó en los vuelos de la última escuadrilla de 16 Harriers que sobrevolaron los cielos británicos por última vez para apagar sus motores al unísono en la base aérea de Cottesmore el 15 de Diciembre de 2010 en un día de meteorología tan oscura como el ánimo de los presentes.
Un interesante reportaje de este evento puede verse en:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338886/Harrier-jets-skies-final-farewell.html
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Un aparato que resulta difícil de fotografiar por la profusión de modelos que lo rodean, aunque por historia merece la pena.
Este es uno de los 170 ejemplares de 352 construido por CASA en Getafe y usado en origen para el transporte de 18 paracaidistas.
Comprado en subasta por el RAF Museum el 03/Julio/1977 se muestra ahora con colores y rótulos de British Airways con la matrícula fictica G-AFAP que correspondía a uno de los tres ejemplares de Ju-52 que prestaron servicios en dicha compañía en tareas de carga antes del inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Como nota irónica,el verdadero G-AFAP fue capturado por las tropas alemanas en Noruega en 1940.
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Diseñado para luchar contra la insurgencia poco armada no eran efectivos para enfrentarse al ejercito británico en las Malvinas. De 24 desplegados se perdieron 13 por la acción enemiga (casi todos en acciones de comandos) y 7 por diversos accidentes, con sólo 4 indemnes.
Este ejemplar fue uno de los 5 capturados en condiciones de vuelo que se llevaron al Reino Unido para su estudio, siendo el único que tras analizar todas las células llegó a volar, utilizándose los otros 4 como repuestos.
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Uno de los más raros y formidables cazas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial del que se decía en su momento que en buenas manos podía superar a cualquier caza americano, incluyendo el Mustang P-51D y el Thunderbolt P-47N pese a tener unas prestaciones en velocidad inferiores a ellos.
Este es el único ejemplar de Ki-100 que queda en el mundo.
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