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  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Lancaster bomber fly past drops tousands of poppies onto the crowds below. Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_L_1.jpg
  • Lancaster bomber fly past drops tousands of poppies onto the crowds below. Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_M_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_P_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_O_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_N_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_E_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_D_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_A_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_Y_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_X_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_W_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_V_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_U_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_R_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_Q_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_I_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_C_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_B_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_T_1.jpg
  • Sitting in the shade of a tree, veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_K_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_F_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_Z_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_S_1.jpg
  • Wearing hats made from pages from a newspaper, veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_H_1.jpg
  • Veterans and their families gather in Green park for a service to watch as the memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died during World War II was unveiled. Some 6000 attended the ceremony. Criticism of large-scale area bombing by the RAF near the end of WWII had stalled plans for a memorial for years. London, England, UK.
    20120628veterans bomber command_G_1.jpg
  • In a farmer's tool shed, a painted mural depicting B-24 Liberators sweeping over the cracked brick wall of what was once an officers’ mess at the WW2 Wendling airfield, Norfolk England. Below this scene of heroic military might, young officers flying Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group gathered before and after raids into Germany from November 1943 to July 1945. The runway is now partly covered by a turkey farm and this building is now full of car and tractor parts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis19-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • A detail of the bomb-aimer's window in the nose of a Victor bomber from the nuclear Cold War V-bomber era. The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company and served during the Cold War. It was the third and final of the V-bombers operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF)
    victor_bomber01-07-08-2000_1_1.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, the last remaining B-52 bombers from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total. In the nuclear arms treaties of the 80s, Soviet satellites proved their decommissioning by spying the tails had been sliced apart huge guillotines and set at right-angles. This is a scene of confrontation, with opposing forces apparently facing each other in the way that Soviet and western armies fought the war of propaganda. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis38-10-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once one of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis18-05-10-2000_1.jpg
  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot 2.7 m bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
    bomber_command_memorial-01-16-03-201...jpg
  • The sculpture forming the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot 2.7 m bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
    bomber_command_memorial-03-16-03-201...jpg
  • A young couple admire the Bomber Command War Memorial on 16th March 2017, in Green Park, London, England. The 9-foot 2.7 m bronze sculpture of seven aircrew, designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson look as though they have just returned from a bombing mission and left their aircraft. The figures represent L-R: Navigator, Flight Engineer, Mid-upper gunner, Pilot, Bomb aimer, Rear gunner and Wireless operator. The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. The memorial was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the memorial on 28 June 2012, the year of her Diamond Jubilee.
    bomber_command_memorial-04-16-03-201...jpg
  • The RAF Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park in London, near Hyde Park Corner, commemorating the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War.
    20120723bomber command memorial_C_1.jpg
  • The RAF Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park in London, near Hyde Park Corner, commemorating the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War.
    20120723bomber command memorial_B_1.jpg
  • The RAF Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park in London, near Hyde Park Corner, commemorating the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War.
    20120723bomber command memorial_A_1.jpg
  • Known as 'Old Glory', a polished silver Boeing Mitchell B-25 is refuelled in readiness for a display flight at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. In afternoon light, a lady in a stars and stripes shirt stands arms behind her back admiring the lovingly restored polished twin-engine bomber, the most heavily armed airplane of the second world war used for high and low-level bombing, strafing, photoreconnaissance, submarine patrol and fighter. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903
    aviation_corbis45-28-08-1998_1.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda.
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  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once formed part of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the USAAF's 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
    WW2_bomber_base07-05-10-2000_1_1_1.jpg
  • Now an overgrown, mildew-ridden farm shack in woodland in Seething, Norfolk England, this wall mural was once formed part of the barracks housing 3,000 young World War 2 bomber crews so was probably painted by a young aspiring artist and aviator with the USAAF's 448th Bomb Group, a fleet of bombers based in England from November 1943 to July 1945. The picture depicts a confrontation between US Air Force B-24 Liberators, a P-51 Mustang and probably a German Dornier. There are hairline cracks in the plaster but the yellow hue of the hand-painted wall is largely intact despite damp conditions in the shed. There are however, other artistic details now faded. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural use.
    WW2_bomber_base06-05-10-2000_1_1_1.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base03-05-10-2000_1_1_1.jpg
  • A wall mural of WW2 bombers crossing the sky and wreck of a Rolls-Royce at the former RAF Hethel air for base in Norfolk, England. Built during 1942 for use by the Americans and was transferred to the USAAF from 14 September 1943 though to 12 June 1945. Hethel served as headquarters for the 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bombardment Division. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.  Strategic objectives in France, the Low Countries, and Germany included targets such as shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, industrial areas of Berlin, oil facilities at Merseburg, factories at Münster, railroad yards at Sangerhausen, and V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais. After the war, the buildings reverted to agricultural and industrial use.
    WW2_bomber_base02-05-10-2000_1_1_1.jpg
  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
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  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_6.jpg
  • Sunrise in the Thames Estuary September 21st 2017, Thames Estuary, Kent, United Kingdom.The Red Sands Towers are remains of WW2 forward defences and were maned by gunners to shoot down German bombers coming in to bomb London.
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  • Sunrise in the Thames Estuary September 21st 2017, Thames Estuary, Kent, United Kingdom.The Red Sands Towers are remains of WW2 forward defences and were maned by gunners to shoot down German bombers coming in to bomb London.
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  • Boy Mohammed works the streets with Spand ( the can and seeds he is holding are burnt and waved into the car for good luck) he spends some of the time at Ashiana  a charity that works with  vulnerable children.<br />
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“I must support my family I am the oldest, my father works but he cannot earn enough on his own I  earn up to a dollar a day. I don’t like working on the streets; I worry about the suicide bombers, kidnappers, gangsters and traffic. Recently a friend was selling gum and got knocked over by a car, it did not even stop.”
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  • At the start of another day's work, pilots belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walk in single-file out into the pink morning light for the first winter training flight of the day at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Emerging from their squadron building the aviators make their way along a pathway towards the waiting Hawk jet aircraft known the world over. Wearing winter green flying suits and carrying their helmets, their day is spent flying and de-briefing up to six times a day when weather permits. Long shadows spill over on to the airfield's cropped grass. Scampton  is one of the original World War 2 RAF stations for the Lancaster bombers the 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. Today, it is used almost exclusively by the team.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. Night is falling with only blue daylight remaining in the western sky and the warm light from the hangar spills out of the giant open doors on to the concrete. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangar, an original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year.
    Red_Arrows007_RBA_1.jpg
  • Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
    arizona_boneyard-15-08-1998_5.jpg
  • Sunrise in the Thames Estuary September 21st 2017, Thames Estuary, Kent, United Kingdom.The Red Sands Towers are remains of WW2 forward defences and were maned by gunners to shoot down German bombers coming in to bomb London.
    AB9A3087.jpg
  • Sunrise in the Thames Estuary September 21st 2017, Thames Estuary, Kent, United Kingdom.The Red Sands Towers are remains of WW2 forward defences and were maned by gunners to shoot down German bombers coming in to bomb London.
    AB9A3080.jpg
  • A lone figure stands silhouetted against a hangar belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Two huge hangar doors are ajar revealing an orange glow spilling on to the concrete outside. A Hawk jet aircraft is parked awaiting overnight maintenance. Engineers talk inside as the door travels along its track. The men are the team's support ground crew and eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF qualifies. The hangar dates to World War 2, housing Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. This version of BAE Systems Hawks are low-tech, without computers nor fly-by-wire technology, Some of the  team's aircraft are 25 years old and their airframes require frequent overhauls due.
    Red_Arrows074_RBA_1.jpg
  • Engineer airframe specialist Junior Technician Barry Pritchard of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, forms part of the team's highly-skilled group of support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. Here J/Tech Pritchard straddles the fuselage of  the Hawk jet aircraft performing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) jack change in the squadron hangar. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. The team's aircraft are in some cases 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent overhauls needed. In these shelters were housed the Lancaster bombers 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows nearby offices as their administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year.
    Red_Arrows030_RBA_1.jpg
  • 'Counting the Cost' is a memorial sculpture in glass designed by Renato Niemis which is outside at the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum, RAF Duxford, England. The sculpture comprises of 52 toughened clear float glass panels, each etched with the outlines of 7,031 aircraft missing in action in operations flown by American air forces (Air Force and Navy Groups) from Britain during the Second World War. The images are scaled at 1:240, diagonally pointing towards the blue summer sky once filled with bombers and fighters during the air campaign over Germany and France. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis16-12-12-1997_1.jpg
  • Russel Square tube station.Police have closed the road and put covers in front of the tube entrance while forensics are working on evidence gathering and general clean-up. 4 suicide bombers killed 54 commuters in London 7/7 2005.Ciaran Cassidy 22, James Mayes 28, Arthur Frederick 60, James Adams 32, ElizabethDaplyn 26, Adrian Juhnson 37, Helen Jones 28, Lee Harris, Philip Beer 22, Samantha Badham 36, Christian Small 28, Emily Jenkins 24, Ojara Ikeagwo 55, Karolina Gluck 29, Monika Suchocka 25, Anna Brandt 43, Ihab Slimane 24, Shelley Marie Mather 26, Ganze Gunoral 24, Behnaz Mozakka 47, Ateeque Sharifi 24, Michelle Otto 46, Michael Matsushita 37, Rachelle Chung 27, Mala Trivedi plus 100s of wounded.  ..All maimed and killed by Germaine Lindsay, also dead...The missing woman, Miriam Hyman was later confirmd dead, killed on the bus no 30..
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  • The semi-derelict bunkhouse at the former WW2 Wendling air base, Norfolk, England. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). During the war it was used primarily as a bomber airfield, being the home of the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force 392nd Bombardment Group. The group flew B-24 Liberators as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. The 392d BG entered combat on 9 September 1943 and engaged primarily in bombardment of strategic objectives on the Continent until April 1945. The group attacked such targets as an oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, a marshalling yard at Osnabrück, a railroad viaduct at Bielefeld, steel plants at Brunswick, a tank factory at Kassel, and gas works at Berlin. With the end of military control the airfield has become a turkey farm.
    WW2_bomber_base04-05-10-2000_1_1_1.jpg
  • Military jet fighter engines awaiting recycling for scrap value in arid desert at Davis Monthan facility, Tucson, Arizona.  A landscape of old technology, the relics of former wars and air supremacy now reduced to aluminium and sprayed IDs. Jet pipes and power plants, the energy to get multi-million aircraft into the air to attack or defend territory and culture. These retired aircraft engines whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft.
    jet_engines-15-08-1998_1.jpg
  • At the foot of a tree located opposite the charred Pentagon building days after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, children have made a makeshift memorial by placing a garland around the model of a military B52 bomber, a NASA space Shuttle,  portrait of a smiling president George W Bush and their own interpretation of the attacks on the Twin Towers - with airliners flying towards those symbols of capitalism.  Icons of American technology and patriotic success lie on the ground here beneath the tree near Arlington military Cemetery. In a show of unity, many of those gathered on the grass to view the damage done by terrorists worked for the government or defence organisations, their Hawkish rhetoric appearing to suggest heavy-handed retaliation on those held responsible.
    september11th006-27-09_2001_1_1_1.jpg
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