Just some nice photos I've found

[mkhulu]

[Jschmus]

I'm with you.   

[GTX]

Do it once with an Apache and now everyone has to have a go...

[Jschmus]

Found a story via Facebook about keeping the aircraft based at Kandahar clean.
http://www.marines.mil/unit/mcascherrypoint/Pages/110603BirdBath.aspx

Attached is the following image of a VMA-513 Harrier all lit up:
http://1.usa.gov/j3ZT7x

It's a big one, at 2.5 MB.

[Jschmus]

Another airliners.net shot, this time of the former Khodynka Aerodrome, outside of Moscow:

http://www.airliners.net/photo//1927831/L/

A search for other photos from this location says that this was once a test location for Mikoyan and Sukhoi fighters, and hosted the first flights of many different aircraft.  There was a museum there once, now closed.  You can see a number of aircraft parked in a line near the top right of the photo.  About halfway down the line is a big blue jet.  Could this be one of the Sukhoi T-10 Flankers?

[Jschmus]

Here's a fabulous selection of photos of Italy's air forces during World War II:

http://www.lasegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?t=3961

Text is all in Spanish, but that shouldn't pose too much of a problem for anyone here.

[GTX]

[Rheged]

"It's the last time I buy a third class ticket!"

[Mossie]

You can't see it, but there's Ryanair title behind the stub wing....

[Pablo1965]

Yes, the "low cost" has reach a new level.

[pyro-manic]

Here's a fabulous selection of photos of Italy's air forces during World War II:

http://www.lasegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?t=3961

Text is all in Spanish, but that shouldn't pose too much of a problem for anyone here.

That's a superb find! Some really lovely shots there. I particularly like the two shots of the SM-79, the one where it's buzzing a group of people at very low level, and they're all diving for cover, and the next one where one has just released a torpedo against a battleship - either an R-class or one of the un-modernised Queen Elizabeth-class.

[scooter]

More official Air Force goodness, this time air refueling over Afghanistan.  I've always said that boom operators get the neatest photos.

http://bit.ly/mCQ92D

Yeah, but political correctness will never get us the most excellent nose art one F-105 had during Vietnam.

[Jschmus]

You mean this one?

[scooter]

You mean this one?

Yep.  No boom operator worth his salt would miss that.  And honestly, it probably worked a lot better than any other visual cues.

[Hobbes]

The Boeing X-45C being ferried on top of a 747 (one of the Space Shuttle carriers).