x planes

the Planet Satellite at the 1948 Farnborough Airshow (via FlightGlobal)

Bournemouth, 1910 (via)

“WB771 Victor 1st prototype Farnborough 1953” (via this great album)

“Avro Vulcan XA894 in low level fly past at Farnborough Air Show, September 1962”

(via this amazing set of slides from Totally random scanned 35mm slides on Flickr)

“Cierva Air Horse Farnborough Airshow 1949” (via)

Toilet facilities at European air displays are generally very good - even at 2,000 m above sea level, and when the aircraft are firing (“note the gunsmoke”) at mountainside targets.. (via AVweb/Brad Marzari)

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Dassault Mirage IIIRS, Axalp Air Power Demonstration 2006 (via)

“F/A-18C Hornet disappearing behind Axalphorn, Axalp 2010” (via)

“A Swiss Air Force F18 fighter jet performs during a flight demonstration over Axalp in the Bernese Oberland October 13, 2010. Photograph by: Michael Buholzer, Reuters” (via)

Axalp Air Power Demonstration 2010, photo by Daniel Bögli

“1910 - 2nd Paris Air Show - New Biplane”
(via the Flightglobal Images archive)

nobody died friday! #67: F-16 landing problem, EAA Airventure, Oshkosh, July 28th 2011

nobody died friday! #65: Thunder Mustang “Rapid Travel”, National Championship Air Races, Reno, 19th September 2010