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Japanese Betty twin engined bombers on a torpedo run at Guadalcanal

Good old Blackburn Buccaneer, a low level strike aircraft from the cold war. very low level before health and safety was a thing pretending to be a car

The real reason NORAD tracks Santa This one is nifty, designed at the end of WWII but looks like it would be fine flying up to the 60s

Story goes that a British brewery was dedicated to making free beer for the troops but after D-day there was no way to get it to the front. Every truck and ship in Western Europe was packed with more critical war materiel The air force decided to help, at first they filled drop tanks with beer...

Time to go on a beer run :) The Air force providing some useful support to ground troops there by delivering beer to the frontlines. It was even nicely chilled after the flight :D Apparently the USN did something similar with Ice Cream where a quick flight up to high altitude was enough to...

joke being those destroyers were virtually worthless :p They were in poor condition and had terrible handling characteristics making them unsuitable for ASW missions. Good morale boost but by the time they had been brought up to useable specs the RN had built enough of its own frigates to do the...

American carriers were tough, they did have good deck armour it was just under the planes. So they could tank respectable damage it was just they couldn't field aircraft. Hard to kill the ship but not necessarily to mission kill it. It was good to run joint missions, the US taught the UK how...

Enty is a legend, but she was facing Japanese aircraft carrying at best 500 pound bombs. British carriers had to tank 1,000 pounders, and in some cases 2,200 pound AP bombs dropped by pilots at least equal to the Kido butai Plus those numbers were deceptive, there is a difference between planes...

yeah, without that you get an airwing comparable to a USN ship of similar tonnage, though with less endurance

It wouldn't matter, it isn't the ship or numbers that count it is the weather. That is a 90 thousand ton supercarrier, imagine a 7 thousand ton CVE in the same conditions :p Doesn't matter what planes you carry, nothing is launching in those conditions. Unless of course you are a Swordfish in...

You know they say that sometimes you can hear a picture? This picture is the Top Gun soundtrack

I do appreciate a contra prop, nice blend of elegant and complicated. Probably because of the ridiculously OP plane from this fictional setting Speaking of which, what is the best air combat movie in your opinion? Battle of Britain, Memphis Belle, Iron Eagle, that sort of thing :)

The English Electric Lightning from the pioneering days of supersonic aircraft. It was made as a point defence fighter to intercept Soviet bombers and optimised to a ridiculous degree for that role. In terms of speed and acceleration it was unmatched until the F-15 and even then could still get...