The Industrialist

McDonnell F2H Banshee

Pushing out 70,000 pounds of thrust

19 September 1962. English Electric Lightning F1 crashed near Hatfield aerodrome. De Havilland test pilot, George Aird, ejected at low altitude and landed through the roof of a nearby tomato greenhouse. The moment was captured by photographer Jim Meads.

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"The Mighty Moose"

VX195, an Avro Tudor 8 prototype, photographed en route to the 1948 Farnborough Airshow in England

Raptor

F-15

F-86 Sabre

Aerospace Engineering Magazine 1962

retrowar:

Soviet Progvev-T, a gas-dynamic minesweeper. This 37-tons beast was a T-54 tank base and a MiG-15 jet engine on top.

An Air Tanker drops retardant on a brush fire near Spokane, WA

intake

The End of the Luftwaffe, May 1945. Captured Messerschmitt Me 262 (world’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft), Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet (the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational).

Abandoned Soviet Jet Train [1024 x 768]

Source: http://imgur.com/sZLiq7J

Blackbird engine..

Swell!

SR71

Panavia Tornado