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Sahara Desert’s Wrecked P-40 Kittyhawk (PHOTOS)
(All images: low res screenshots via Rami Siag, YouTube) On June 28, 1942, Flt Sgt Dennis Copping of the Royal Air Force was tasked to fly a damaged P-40 Kittyhawk fighter between two British airfields...
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The Forgotten Phantom at West Freugh, Scotland
(All images by Dave Harding) One of two derelict airframes located at West Freugh, a decommissioned RAF station, was F-4 Phantom XT852. This particular aircraft was an American YF-4M which was used...
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Dismantled British Harrier Jump Jets Stored at the Infamous Arizona Desert...
(Image: cactusbillaz, reproduced with permission) In November 2011, the last British Harrier jump jets were controversially sold for spare parts to the US Marine Corps. The sale, which netted the UK...
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Wartime Aircraft Wrecks of the Solomon Islands
(All images by Stefan Krasowski, cc-4.0) Like the wrecks of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands are littered with the twisted carcasses of Japanese and American aircraft destroyed during the War in...
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The Cutting-Edge Eurofighter Typhoon that Crash Landed at China Lake
(Image: UK Serials Resource Centre, reproduced with permission) Even the world’s most cutting-edge planes can fall victim to mechanical mishaps (or perhaps digital ones) as was the case with...
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Ukraine Aviation Museum’s Gutted MiG-25 Foxbat
(Image: VargaA, cc-sa-3.0) Ukraine State Aviation Museum in Kiev is stocked with old Soviet-era military aircraft. But this old MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor doesn’t appear to be one of the main exhibits....
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ZA399: Gulf War Veteran Tornado GR1 Preserved in Knutsford, Cheshire
(All images by mjjlive, reproduced with permission) One of the few surviving Panavia Tornado GR1 strike aircraft not to be reduced to produce (stripped for parts then scrapped), the beautifully...
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The Wreck of B-29 Superfortress ‘Overexposed’, Higher Shelf Stones, Derbyshire
(All images by Dave Harding) On November 3, 1948, Boeing B-29 Superfortress 44-61999 ‘Overexposed’, while on a flight from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire to the USAF base at Burtonwood near Warrington,...
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Final Flight of Tornado ZA395 – Heading for Scrap
(Image: Tom Dean (website: uknature.com), reproduced with permission) In March 2014 the RAF’s No. 12 (Bomber) Squadron and No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) officially disbanded at RAF Lossiemouth in...
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The Soviet Navy’s Massive Lun-Class Ektranoplan Decaying by the Caspian Sea
(Image: Tom Wigley, cc-nc-sa-4.0) It may look like a seaplane or hydrofoil, but this massive Lun-class ektranoplan is actually a ground effect vehicle (GEV), designed to skim across the surface of the...
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‘Boxer 22′: Downed Phantom Wingtip is a Poignant Reminder of War
(Image: Laos GPS Map, reproduced with permission) This rusting F-4 Phantom wingtip, mounted in the small southern Laos village of Ban Phanop, cuts a poignant reminder of heroism and sacrifice during...
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Battered Buccaneers Await the Axe at RAF Shawbury
(All images by Alan Allen, reproduced with permission) A healthy number of Blackburn Buccaneer subsonic strike jets survive in aviation museums today. But after the type was retired from Royal Air...
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Redundant Lightning F3 Jets on Wattisham Dump
(Image: Michael Hall via Thunder & Lightnings, reproduced with permission) A painful sight for English Electric Lightning enthusiasts, the above scene reveals the dump at RAF Wattisham during the...
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The Weed-Strewn Wartime Runway of RAF Eshott
(All images (unless stated) by Urban Ghosts) Hidden amid the picturesque Northumberland countryside near the village of Felton, 20 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, the old main runway of RAF Eshott...
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Failed Tech: The Soviet Union’s Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Amphibious Aircraft...
(Image: Alex Beltyukov, cc-sa-3.0) As demonstrated by the fearsome Caspian Sea Monster, the former Soviet Union developed some impressive and bizarre technology in the decades after World War Two. The...
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Canberra Bomber Wreckage on Scotland’s Rugged Carn an t-Sagairt Mor
(All images by Mel Stephens, reproduced with permission) While climbing Carn an t-Sagairt Mor, one of the Munros of Scotland, photographer Mel Stephens came upon the wreckage of an English Electric...
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Night Photographer Hunts Down Two Wrecked B-52 Bombers Near Edwards AFB
(All images by Noel Kerns (see Photostream), reproduced with permission) In this article, we get up close and personal with two mighty B-52 Stratofortress bombers, which have languished for decades in...
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Early Tornado GR1 Jets Meet Their End at St Athan
(All images (unless stated) by Chris Corkish, Tornado-Data.com, reproduced with permission) To date, we’ve covered the RAF’s incremental wind-down of its Panavia Tornado GR4 bomber force in various...
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Exploring the Abandoned Military Buildings of RAF Croft near Culcheth, Cheshire
Article and photographs by Dave Harding and Tom Bedson Overgrown and abandoned for years, RAF Croft was a former military base built during the Second World War. Initially known as HMS Gosling Camp 3,...
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The Epic Salvage of Wrecked Russian Battle Cruiser Murmansk
(Image: FL3JM, cc-sa-3.0) Ocean liner SS America isn’t the only vessel to have run aground and sunk in 1994 while under tow to Asia. But unlike the grand US passenger ship, which was abandoned where...
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