#rnzaf

[destinationsjourney]

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[theworldatwar]

Ground crew spray foam on an RNZAF Corsair (NZ5367), after an emergency landing - Green Island, Australia, 24th Feb 1945

[usaac-official]

RNZAF P-40Ns of No 18 Squadron in the Solomon Islands, 1944

[nocternalrandomness]

Bevan Dewes flying Legend Aviation's 1944 Harvard IIA in RNZAF paint at the 2026 Warbirds over Wanaka Air Show in New Zealand

[uraniumeater235]

I find the Short Sunderland to be a very attractive aircraft. Its also got a very interesting history and is underrepresented in media!

The Short Sunderland was/is a flying boat made by the Short brothers aircraft company in Britain (who also made the short sterling, Britains first 4 engine heavy bomber properly put into service) and was first put into service in 1938.

During ww2 it performed many many missions and was the quintessential flying boat for the allies. It saved many airmen and sailors from freezing to death in the cold and dark seas in its use as an air-sea rescue aircraft.

In burma at multiple points it was the only way to evacuate wounded soldiers away from the front lines with crews flying for sometimes 24 hours straight if just picking up wounded, flying them to safety and then doing it again while under near constant threat from ground fire.

It protected supply vessels in its role as a U-boat hunter (a job it did very well and a lot) even scoring the first unassisted kill against a U-boat (done by an Aussie Sunderland crew which im proud of).

It could even perform evasive maneuvers like corkscrews in spite of its dummy thickness.

I love the Short Sunderland and i hope more people learn to love it too.

[usafphantom2]

F4U Corsair fighters of No. 18 Squadron RNZAF fly along the coast of Guadalcanal.10/26/1944

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[carbone14]

Un Hawker Typhoon Mk IB du No. 486 Squadron de la RNZAF – Angleterre – 27 octobre 1943

Photographe : S. A. Devon – Royal Air Force official photographer

©Imperial War Museums – CH 11578

Le Typhoon IB JP853/SA-K du 486e Escadron de chasse de la Royal New Zealand Air Force s'exhibe devant le photographe lors d'une visite à la base aérienne de la RAF de Tangmere, le 27 octobre 1943.

[usafphantom8]

Loading a film cassette into the cine gun of a Bristol Beaufighter Mk X of 489 Squadron RNZAF.

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