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Active Camouflage: Astro-Turf Covered Stealth Fighter Mock-Up Blends in With...
(All images by Zaq Landsberg, reproduced with permission) The US government is notoriously obstructive when it comes to allowing members of the plane spotting public near its fleet of mothballed F-117...
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Hybrid Stealth: Pole-Mounted F-117 Nighthawk Built From Crashed Jets & Spare...
(Image: Alan Radecki, cc-sa-3.0) Chances are you’ll never get a close look (it’s located at Lockheed’s highly restricted Skunk Works facility in Palmdale), but this pole-mounted F-117 Nighthawk is...
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MiG Monuments: Former Soviet States Commend a Cold War Icon (35 Photos)
(Image: Wikimedia; public domain) In the decades following World War Two, tens of thousands of jet aircraft were manufactured to fight a war that thankfully stayed relatively cold. Coupled with...
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Abandoned MiG-23 Floggers at Joint Base Balad
(Image: fisherbray, reproduced with permission) These abandoned Russian-built fighter jets are part of an impressive MiG-23 graveyard at Joint Base Balad, a former Iraqi air force base within the...
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20 Historic Photos of Downed Luftwaffe Aircraft during the Battle of Britain
(All photos are in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons, sources below) For three months and three weeks during the summer and Autumn of 1940, the Battle of Britain raged in the skies over southern...
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Google Earth Reveals Wartime Anti-Aircraft Battery
(Images via Google Earth) It’s amazing what can be found while flying around the world via Google Earth – the ghostly images of Britain’s wartime airfields, for instance, slowly returning to farmland....
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3 Top Secret Technology Demonstrator Aircraft that Could Still be Classified
Throughout the Cold War the United States and other countries spent billions of dollars developing cutting-edge military technologies in a bid to gain an edge over the opposition. Much of this work...
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The Dambusters: 20 Historical Photographs from Operation Chastise
(Image: Germany Federal Archive cc-sa-3.0 DE; Eder Dam breached, May 17 1943) Yesterday and today mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Chastise, the famous Dam Busters raid carried out by Avro...
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Phantom Wreck: The Final Days of F-4J ‘ZE351′ at RAF Finningley
(Images: Alan Allen, reproduced with permission) These photographs by Al Henderson and Alan Allen mark the last few days of Phantom F-4J ZE351 on the fire dump at RAF Finningley in South Yorkshire,...
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Specially Painted F-4 ‘Tiger’ Phantom Fighter Meets the Axe
(All images by Alan Allen, reproduced with permission) To British aviation enthusiasts, XV404 was the most strikingly painted F-4 Phantom in Royal Air Force service. But unfortunately, the famous...
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Weird Planes: Cancelled ‘Convair XF-92′ (10 Pics)
(All images by NASA and US Air Force, public domain) The Convair XF-92, certainly a weird aircraft to look at, was originally conceived as a point-defense interceptor but was ultimately used for...
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Submerged F-4: The Phantom of Subic Bay
(All images (unless otherwise stated) by Anders Poulsen, reproduced with permission) This gutted, F-4 Phantom fighter jet hulk at the bottom of Subic Bay in the Philippines presents an interesting...
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Avrocar: US Military’s Top Secret ‘Flying Saucer’
(Image: Bill Zuk, public domain) Popularised by the media during the 1950s, the term ‘flying saucer’ has become a synonym for ‘UFO’, associated with alien visitors and a mainstay of science fiction...
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Decommissioned US Navy Fighter Jets Find New Life as Crash Training Props
(Image: US Navy, public domain) When disaster strikes in the world of aviation, the ability of emergency services to act quickly is paramount in the fight to save life and limb. And in an environment...
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Fornlorn Shell of Decommissioned YF-18 Fighter
(All images by Fred Miller of LongIslandWallpapers.com, reproduced with permission) Featured in our sister article about the ground instructional airframes assigned to US Navy aircraft carriers, this...
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Nazi Germany’s World War Two Flak Towers Re-purposed as Climbing Walls, Cafes...
(Image: Miroslav Petrasko (website: HDR Shooter), cc-nc-nd-3.0) During WWII, Adolf Hitler commanded the construction of several flak towers in Germany and Vienna, Austria. While some were destroyed or...
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Twisted Remains of Downed F-4 Phantom 153001 at People’s Air Force Museum, Hanoi
(Image: Monty McMont, reproduced with permission) Amid a heap of twisted metal at the People’s Air Force Museum in Hanoi emerges the unmistakable form of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, which was shot...
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The Haunting Car Graveyard of Chatillon, Belgium
(Image: Theo van Vliet, reproduced with permission) This haunting series of images by Theo van Vliet and Marcel Wiegerinck explores one of the world’s most intriguing vehicle cemeteries. Located in a...
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The Amazing True Story of a Norwegian Ghost Town’s Wrecked Heinkel Bomber
(Image: Pascal deschepper, cc-sa-3.0) The village of Grotli stands amid an area of outstanding natural Norwegian beauty. All but a ghost town barring the Grotli Hotel and several cabins, the village...
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The F-4 Phantom Graveyard at RAF Wattisham
(All images by Alan Allen, reproduced with permission) To aviation enthusiasts, RAF Wattisham was at the centre of the UK’s F-4 Phantom force until the type’s retirement in 1992. And while the ‘Phantom...
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