BIRDSPOTTER

An archive of colourful nose-art, squadron insignias and airforce graphics.This blog is about the bond between men and machines and it's visual outing.

[titanium-rain]

[retrowar]

B-26s

[toocatsoriginals]

F-16C Block 30 Fighting Falcon Celebrating 90th Anniversary of Texas Air National Guard

via Detail & Scale

[lefthirtysix]

AC-130 Spectre // Brindisi airport

#brindisiairport #brindisi #brindisisea #militare #military #spectre #jugoslaviawar #war #crew #oldbutgold #history #lefthirtysix #lef36 #kerosene #ac130 #ghost #hercules #huge #santamariadelcasale #sanvitoairstation #usaf #guerra #kosovo #takeoff #castelloalfonsino #monumentoalmarinaio

[retrowar]

379th Fighter Squadron P-47D Thunderbolt “Bonnie Lynn”

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[pistonwings]

p-38 lightning sweater!

[bill-kelso-mfg]

#heritage #menstyle

[classicnavalair]

@ClassicNavalAir VF-33 Starfighters F-4J launching from a waist catapult of USS Independence, Mediterranean Sea, 1977. #PhantomFriday http://t.co/7hHxBj40gj

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[classicnavalair]

@ClassicNavalAir The most colorful COD ever: VX-5’s Vampire Airlines Bicentennial C-1A Trader. #4thofJuly http://t.co/ihM4kKLdyR

[chaosxichaos]

[talesofwar]

The personnel of the British submarine HMS Utmost showing off their Jolly Roger in February 1942. The markings on the flag indicate the boat’s achievements: nine ships torpedoed (including one warship), eight ‘cloak and dagger’ operations, one target destroyed by gunfire, and one at-sea rescue.

[georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov]

“Some of the twenty Americans who decided to remain behind in North Korea. They were joined by one British Royal Marine. Most eventually returned to their homeland.”

(Chinnery)

[british-eevee]

A-36A Apache at rest at an airfield in Sicily (1943)

[retrowar]

http://www.lonesentry.com/images/2015/07/curtiss-p-40k.html

Curtiss P-40K fighter 

[beautifulwarbirds]

The control wheel of a B-17 a Flying Fortress.

[beautifulwarbirds]

Ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, and the all important cute and friendly dog.