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Eyes Of The Fleet
circa 1940: A Blackburn Skua two seat fighter and dive-bomber of the Fleet Air Arm with arrestor hook and wheels lowered, flying over warships of the British Fleet. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Supermarine Spitfire
A Supermarine Spitfire IIa P7350 (foreround), and a Hawker Hurricane IIc LF363 with markings as they appeared in Guy Hamiltons film Battle Of Britain, 1969

RAF Scramble
RAF fighter pilots run for their planes. (Photo by Reg Speller/Getty Images)

RAF De Havilland Vampire being pushed into position ready for take-off
17th May 1952: An RAF De Havilland Vampire being pushed into position ready for take-off. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5864 - We re Flying Five Years Ahead - pub.1952

Flight Deck
Plane taking off from the American aircraft carrier Constellation in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images)

Captured Plane
9th November 1918: On display at the Lord Mayors Show - a German Pfalz plane, shot down near Arras on 17th October 1918. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Humour A Jolly Companion Cruikshank 19th century cartoon
This is a cartoon etching by the well-known Victorian social caricaturist / cartoonist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878), dated May 20th, 1828

Footman carrying a steaming Wassail Bowl
A footman placing a steaming Wassail Bowl on a Christmas table. Wassail is an old English tradition usually associated with Yuletide (Christmas)

Supermarine Spitfire plane, side view

RAF Station
circa 1940: Fighters on the ground at Hawkings RAF Station, in Kent. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

F-86 Sabre
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain waits as an engineer refuels an F-86 Sabre. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5927 - The Yanks In England - pub

American Avenger
1940: Six American Avenger torpedo attack planes begin a dive out of formation, World War II, African Front. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

At The Ready
August 1939: Pilots scramble for their Hurricane fighters at an RAF station. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Flying Phantom Jet with missiles below wings, side view

Dassault Mirage military jet with missiles below wings

Hawker Hart
1935: Hawker Hart a light bi-plane day-bomber which in its day (1930) outpaced every RAF fighter. Though it had a tendency to pull to the left on take-off it had a good rate of climb

Dreadnought
1932: An American fighter plane, known as the Dreadnought of the Air, it has thirty machine guns and is protected by armoured plate. It has an anthropomorphic face

Flying Circus
The Red Barons Flying Circus. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Hendon Air Review
Military aircraft lined up for inspection at a Naval and Military review at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ditched Seaplane
A ditched British seaplane sinking into the sea. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Taube In Paris
circa 1915: A birdlike German Taube aircraft, on display at Les Invalides, Paris, during the height of the First World War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fitting Gun Sights
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, fitting controls and calibrating the gun sights of the Bristol Bulldog

Filming Take-Off
A US Army cinematographer filming a US Nieuport 28 biplane taking off during the summer counter-offensive. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fokker Transportation
March 1916: A German Fokker aircraft is transported by road in occupied France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fighter Factory
9th January 1930: Factory at Filton, Gloucester where Bristol Bulldog all-steel fighting machines are being constructed for Australia. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Painting Wings
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, spraying identification markings onto the wings of the Bristol Bulldog

Shaping Propellers
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester shaping and balancing propellers for the Bristol Bulldog

Flight Deck
circa 1943: An American plane flying above an American aircraft carrier, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. In the background is the destroyer escort. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Supermarine Spitfire
circa 1940: A Spitfire having its guns tested at a Fighter Squadron Station. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Thunderbolts
15th March 1944: US Thunderbolts lined up for testing after their arrival in Britain prior to the D Day invasions. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone/Getty Images)

Formation Flying
circa 1940: US Airforce aircraft flying in formation. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

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