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After the battle for the Netherlands early May 1940, a number of LVA aircraft were captured and were used by the Luftwaffe as beute-flugzeuge including this Fokker D.XXI. The three white mice on the nacelle were the symbol of 1 JaVA of the LVA. The symbol was placed on the six aircraft which were stationed at Eelde Airport. Two of them survived the hostilities.

A piston-powered plane doing a touch-and-go on a nuclear-powered super carrier during Abraham Lincoln's cruise around the tip of South America. This S-2 fatally crashed at Bahía Blanca only one month later on 26 November 1990. Photo by: Don Montgomery / National Archives at College Park, Maryland

The original E.1 Mew Gull, c/n E.20, first flew in March 1934. This E.2, c/n E.20A, was a longer aircraft which appeared in July 1935. Both wore G-ACND. The E.1 had a mishap in France in October 1934 (not 1935). The E.2 was apparently destroyed in another accident in France in October 1935. Of course c/n E.20A and the same registration suggest a rebuild, but apparently almost nothing of the E.1 was actually used. Some people even believe there were two racers marked G-ACND flying at the same time in 1935 - extremely unlikely, of course. The hull of what must have been the E.1 survived at Luton to be burnt in 1945. Dutch postcard.

The Tomcatters commanders aircraft gets a final check of the crew chief before the pilots get approval for the taxi ride to one of TR's cats. Many Tomcats were scrapped at AMARG to prevent spare parts feeding to Iran. Luckily, this beauty was relieved from that fate. Since September 2006, 164342 has been preserved at the Wings over Miami Museum at Kendall (FL).

The XO aircraft of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 94 'Mighty Shrikes' The squadron is now operating the F/A-18F Super Hornet. Here a legacy Hornet of the squadron is seen deployed aboard the USS Nimitz with CVW-11. The team deployed on 3 March 2003 for an eight-month combat deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Little information given, but a military camp in northern China seems a good guess as to the location. The Z-5 is the Mil Mi-4 as built in China. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

still in colors of former operator ATV - Aerotaxi del Valle (Colombia) - photographer unknown