Photographer Toni Frissell stands on the wing of P-51 Mustang “Marcelle” with Major George S. “Spanky” Roberts at Ramitelli, Italy in March 1945. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
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The B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” flies over McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas on July 17, 2016. This was the B-29 aircraft’s first flight after being used by the U.S. Navy as a target for training in the...
The P-40 Warhawk “Red Ball” on display at NACA during World War II. (NASA Photograph.)
A new B-17F Flying Fortress bomber warms up its engines at Boeing’s factory in Seattle as it prepares for a flight test. (Library of Congress Photograph.)
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress of the 92nd Bomb Group at RAF Podington. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
The Curtiss XP-40 Warhawk fighter undergoes drag-reduction testing in the full-scale wind tunnel at Langley Research Center in 1939. (NASA Photograph.)
A Luftwaffe FW 190 fighter shot down by 9th Air Force Mustangs over the American sector in Normandy in July 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and RAF trainee ground crew perform maintenance work on a Hawker Hart biplane as part of the Commonwealth Joint Air Training Plan at Waterkloof near Pretoria, South Africa. (Imperial War...
A U.S. Navy Martin AM-1 Mauler attack aircraft in flight at the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
A Douglas OA-4A Dolphin photographed at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in September 1938. (NASA Photograph.)