Friday pictures: Tornado vapor

I know it’s been too long since I did this. I regret that. So many great shots to post, so many Fridays gone to waste. Yet life is full, and this can slide with no harm to anything, and so it has. Mea culpa. Today we look at a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR4

Friday pictures: Eurofighter Typhoon

Taken last Saturday at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT), this Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon image by Flickr user Andy in Oxford is simply tremendous. I must admit that the Typhoon leaves me cold most of the time – I do not know why. Yet the combination of vapor and afterburner and sunlight on

Friday pictures: F-86 Sabre

I seem to come back to the Sabre again and again – but how can I not? Its classic design, its stirling combat record, its place in a truly impressive lineage (P-51, F-86, F-100, F-107), and the fact that it flew in an era when planes wore flashy markings all combine to great effect. The

Friday pictures: RAAF F-111 Aardvark

Four months ago, I wrote about the Australian F-111 fleet in a Friday pictures post here. While I do seek to feature a range of aircraft here, I nonetheless am drawn to the RAAF Aardvarks as they are both visually arresting and retired from the USAF, so moderately rare sightings. For background on the plane

Friday pictures: World War II archive

I apologize for skipping a few installments of Friday pictures – work and Thanksgiving derailed me a bit, but I am back with a longer entry today, in part to make up for those missed posts. With no further ado… As I say nearly every time I write these, Flickr offers an amazing chance to