Out of Service

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22561656-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); From the perspective of an aviation enthusiast obsessive, a look at all those beautiful aircraft that are no longer in service, from the UK and around the globe.

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RAF Tristars and Panavia Tornado F3s, gone but not forgotten. Photo James Thomas.

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RAF Tristars, gone but not forgotten. Photo James Thomas

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Nimrod AEW Picture by Kevin Pike

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Learning to fly with RAF Training Command 1970s-Present

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Pair of US Navy Vought A-7 Corsair IIs

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US Navy Vought A-7 Corsair II

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Swedish Saab Drakkens

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RAF Finningley review 1977 Name all the types present here? Some great pics on the link.

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RAF Finningley review 1977

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Vickers Varsity© Peter Nicholson 1977

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Formation flight Sunday. “3 Aircraft formation of B-47Es of the 306th Bombardment Wing. Boeing B-47E-95-BW Stratojet 52-545 identifiable. That aircraft was retired to MASDC on 19 November 1965.”

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Grumman F9F Cougar of the US Navy An updated Panther with swept wings

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Grumman F9 Panthers of the US Navy (1950)

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Supermarine Spitfire MK IX

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Spitfire over poppies

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RAF Black Arrows display team, Hawker Hunter F6s, June 1959

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Douglas Skyrocket experimental jet with Sabre chase plane

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There are 174 aircraft visible in the first picture taken at the Royal Review of the RAF, 1953.

More information can be found here: http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/nos10.html