War in the sky.

WAR IN THE SKY - World War 1 and World War 2

The Zeppelin Staaken R. VI was reputedly the largest wooden aircraft to be produced in any quantity during World War One. It could carry individual bombs weighing up to 2,205 lb (1,000 kg) each and a max load of 4,409 lb (2000 kg)

Major Richard Raymond-Barker MC. 6 May 1894 – 20 April 1918.

World War One & World War Two - WAR IN THE SKY

Wilbur Wright pilots a full-size glider down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on October 10, 1902.

Flight deck 100 years ago @RAFMUSEUM - not much tech to rely on in #WW1 - admire pilots who relied on skill alone

View of a Zeppelin in flight over London in 1915 during the Great War in London in World War 1

916 1st Sopwith Camel flight: Hardit Singh Malik crashed 1 & gifted 1; Errol SC Sen taken PoW in 1; Indra Lal Roy drew 1! #Indian World War 1

1918 Bristol F.2B Fighter, the Brisfit. Beautiful 100 year old machine

360 aeroplanes, from 38 squadrons, which the king, as chief of the Royal Air Force, is to Inspect today Hawker Furies lined up in the biggest assembly of aircraft ever seen in a British Aerodrome 935

An aerial photographer with a Graflex camera, ca. 1917-18.

Personnel of the 486th Bomb Group.

Died 1927 Gustave Whitehead, aviation pioneer who controversially claimed to have made powered, manned, controlled heavier-than-air flights before the Wright Brothers.

1937 Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat 'Cordelia' is delivered to Imperial Airways.

Famous women pilots preparing to take part in the 1934 Memorial Day air races at Dycer Airport. In front row kneeling is Gladys O'Donnell, who last year entered seven races and won six. Seated is Ruth Elder, famous flying beauty. Standing left to right: Kay Van Doozer, Myrtle D.

Born 1898 Georg von Hantelmann, WW1 fighter ace of the Luftstreitkräfte with 25 victories.

World War 1 - The Fokker D.VII. of Hans Heinrich Marwede, Jasta 67. Shot down United States observation. balloon on the 3/10/1918 but it was hit & crashed. Hans was held under guard. The Fabric was later souvenired

Marie Marvingt (1875 -1963) French record-breaking balloonist mountaineer, aviator & journalist. In WW1 was the first woman to fly missions during conflict as a pilot. Qualified as the first surgical Flight Nurse. Worked to establish air ambulance services throughout the world.

The crash of a Heinkel He 111B (W.Nr. 1120) DA + AZ in Jeneč, Prague-Ruzyne, Czech Republic. July 15, 1941

World War 1 -British Scouts leaving their Aerodrome on Patrol, over the Asiago Plateau by Sydney Carline 1918.

WWI fighter pilot taught future king to fly . Welsh pilot Valentine Baker served in all three armed forces in WWI and later taught a future king to fly

The 27th of August 1877. Birth of Charles Rolls, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce firm.

World War 1 - A German Gotha Bomber flying over fields.

World War 1 art - Crashed Aeroplane by John Singer Sargent 1918

During German bombing raid, 18 children are killed by single bomb at the Upper North Street School in Poplar, London

Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden later in the war. 85% of the baroque city was destroyed.

A re-enactment of the World War 1 German Flying Circus led by the Red Baron.

World War 1 - A British airman dropping a bomb.

American baseball player Ted Williams (1918 - 2002) of the Boston Red Sox serves during Korean War

Mar 14 1916 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4 getting ready for trials

First World War Biplane. A Sopwith F-1 'Camel'

World War 1 - Army Veterinary Corps pals, Belgium. posing in a fake aeroplane

Avro 504, 1914, widely used British trainer of World War 1

Japanese fighter Nakajima Ki-43 'Hayabusa' in flight.According 2 classification Allied fighter Ki-code name 'Oscar'

US pilot from crew of Captain McAndrew from his bomber B-29C-45-MO 'Marauder' 454th Bombardment Sqn 323rd Bomb Group

Downed zero New Georgia 1943 - World War2

Pilots 330th BombGroup & soldiers of engineering &construction of US Navy near B-29 at air base-Mariana Islands

German fying ace, Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr Von Richtofen

World War One - Three airmen have fallen on Saturday December 11th 1915 tinyurl.com/nhhydcj

R5 Droid unit supports a 1918 Fokker D.VII - German #WW1 fighter aircraft

World War 1 biplane

Wing walker 1913

In World War 2 June 1940 Swiss Messerschmitt Bf109's shot down 11 German aircraft over Swiss neutral territory

French Voisin bomber at the Breteuil aerodrome, 2 February 1916

Lewis machine gun mounted on a French Nieuport biplane at the Clermont aerodrome, 2 Feb 1916

A French Morane Monocoque monoplane at the Clermont aerodrome, 2 Feb 1916

A method of mounting machine gun on a French Voisin biplane. Breteuil aerodrome, 2 Feb 1916

A World War 1 Baloon being shot down killing the pilot.

A German Type Ae 800 observation balloon ascending.

Double amputee Douglas Bader rejoined the RAF to fight in the Battle of Britain.

World War1 - Gallipoli 1915 - Rare photos of the Gallipoli Campaign 1915 -1916 - Early Aviation.

The question of who shot down German World War I. flying ace the #RedBaron may be answered : http://ind.pn/1RQwiqV

Canadian pilot Billy Bishop shot down 72 planes during World War 1

World War 1 - 1914, France's Louis Quenault becomes the 1st pilot in history to shoot down an airplane in combat.

World War 1 - Flt Lt Brie, 104 Squadron, RFC, 1917. He survived.

Oct 5 1915, Hoboken's George Russel invents aerial wireless torpedo aka a WW1 cruise missile.

These men led the way. Royal Flying Corps. 104 Squadron, 1917.

Wop May, an ace Canadian pilot during World War 1.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

German World War 1 - Pfalz Halb-Parasol P59

A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the course of the River Euphrates by Sydney Carline 1919

Great photograph of a WW2 aircraft flying so close over a dam wall

World War 1 The French Army put a radio jammer on the Eiffel Tower to disrupt German signals during the 1914 during the Battle of the Marne.

African American In 1932 James Banning & Thomas Allen became the first Black Airmen to fly across the USA.

Sgt Mottershead died of wounds 100 yrs ago Royal Flying Cross non-commissioned Victoria Cross of World War 1.

World War One German aircraft.

World War 1 aircraft pilot Richtohfen Goering.

World War 1 French ace aircraft pilot.

WW1 Men reached billets about 2.30.Up at 7. German Taube passed over us and was heavily shelled

World War 2 Bombing of Darwin Australia.

Second World War Japanese fighter Kawasaki KI 61, in Northern China.

WW2 Female Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning, #Burbank, #California, 1944

WW2 - 97th Bomb Group, 414th Squadron based in England. Feb 1,1943 - it collided with a German fighter plane which left the damage ...

A wonderful picture of a WW2 Aeroplane flying over the pyramides

The Great War Aviation British Aircraft Flying in Formation

The Great War Aviation 1914

World War 2 German Pilot Werner Martin Schuberth Shot down twice, POW with the Russians He eventually became an Australian.

WW2 - 16 November 1944 Heavy bombers support US Army's new attack into Germany

WW2 - 1942 Popondetta was captured by Australians. Popondetta, on the steamy kunai plains north of the Owen Stanley Range, became a major Allied base for the attack on the Japanese-held beachheads in Papua

A WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPH OF A WW2 GERMAN AEROPLANE

WW2 - A burning Japanese Betty bomber attacking an aircraft carrier.

He-111 bomber in flight. Mainstay of the Luftwaffe Bomber Force in World War 2.

WW1 Afghans posing with the wreckage of a crashed Afghan Air Force biplane, 1925.

WW2 69 years ago around 800 Lancaster bombers destroyed most of Dresden. 18-25000 died, almost all civilians.

WW1 An early army aircraft carrier

WW2 Airforce letter

WW2 - B24 Liberal, Raid, Munich, Military Aircraft, Air Crafts, B24 Damaged, B 24 Damaged

WW1 -British BE 2C

British Sopwith 7F I ‘Snipe’

British Sopwith F1 ‘Camel’

THE DAM BUSTERS ------

WW2 Damage to Pacific Squadron WWII

WW2 Damaged Aeroplane limps home.

Damaged WW2 plane photographed mid-flight from above.

WW2 AUSTRALIA - THE BOMBING OF DARWIN BY THE JAPANESE.

WW2 DARWIN - A DAMAGED AEROPLANE AFTER THE BOMBING OF DARWIN.

WW2 - En route to attack Makin Island on 10 November 1943, this F6F Hellcat (VF-2) crash landed on Enterprise's flight deck

WW1 - French Nieuport 17 C1

WW1 French Spad S -7 C.1

WW1 German Albatros D-1

WW1 German Fokker Dr-1 Triplane

WW1 German Fokker D-VII

WW1 German Gotha G-V

WW2 Dam Busters - Image of a still from the film of 'Upkeep' trials, Receiver bombing range.

WW2 In 1942 Popondetta was captured by Australians. Popondetta, on the steamy kunai plains north of the Owen Stanley Range, became a major Allied base for the attack on the Japanese-held beachheads in Papua

WW2 Jim Birkett and Leading Aircraftman Wally Passmore working on the portside Merlin engine of a Supermarine Spitfire of No 241 Squadron, Royal Air Force on a chilly day in Southern Italy, January 1944

WW2 Mosquitos at RAF Marham...

WW2 Members of 617 Squadron Dambusters at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943

WW1 - USS Oklahoma (BB-37), which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

WW2 The Dam Busters - Of the 133 aircrew that took part, 53 men were killed and three became prisoners of war. On the ground, almost 1,300 people were killed in the resulting flooding.

WW2 Plane About 188 American planes were destroyed and another 159 were damaged. Here is a picture of some planes left on Hickman Field near Pearl Harbor. ...