Ron Eisele
@ron_eisele
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Author. Early aviation historian, enthusiast and aviator.
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Joined April 2015
"Ron Eisele is, for me, the foremost writer of Royal Flying Corps stories. He has a way of making the reader experience for themselves the art of flying one of those early aircraft."
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C-130 modified (special duties - rescue - Iran 1980) to land and take off in a confined area.
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20 January 1974. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test, the GD test pilot, Phil Oestricher, decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine, and safely landed it six minutes later.
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A specially painted RAF Typhoon jet fighter takes to the skies over RAF Coningsby, with a Hawker Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) in the lead up to commemorations of the Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary.
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Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan.
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Thrust vectoring on the F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing
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Thrust vectoring. For those with an engineering inclination.
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A US serviceman (appears to be a paratrooper) looks at recently recaptured P-47D (T9+LK) at Göttingen, Germany, (probably April) 1945.
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Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan.
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Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan.
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24 October 2003. Last commercial flight of the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.
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19 September 1962. English Electric Lightning F1 crashed near Hatfield aerodrome. De Havilland test pilot, George Aird, ejected at low altitude and landed through the roof of a nearby tomato greenhouse. The moment was captured by photographer Jim Meads.
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Two examples of pilot Ray Hanna's Spitfire low-flying prowess. (1/2)
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Two bullets that collided at Gallipoli During WW1. Found on the 1915 battlefield.
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24 November 1944. Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress.
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The Last of The Few: Sole surviving Battle of Britain pilot, Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway. Born 17 July 1919, he served during the Second World War in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy.
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30 August 1982. First flight of the Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G), American privately-financed light fighter prototype.
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Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing
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Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing
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7 August 1955. Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston performed a barrel-roll in the Boing 367-80 (707) prototype.
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7 June 2014. U.S. Marine Corps Captain William Mahoney, AV-8B Harrier pilot, performed a controlled landing on the USS Bataan, at sea, after his front landing gear malfunctioned.
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20 January 1974. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test, the GD test pilot, Phil Oestricher, decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine, and safely landed it six minutes later.
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NAA XB-70 Valkyrie: “The White Swan”. NASA first prototype (AV-1) flying with wings hinged down to ride its own shock wave.
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A re-post of thrust vectoring. For those with an engineering inclination.
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Thrust vectoring on a F-35 allows for vertical take-off and landing
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The Horten Ho 229, late WW2 German prototype fighter/bomber. The first flying wing powered by a jet engine and first to incorporate stealth technology. (2/2)
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3 December 1945, Captain Eric Brown became the first pilot to land and take-off from aircraft carrier (HMS Ocean) in a jet aircraft.
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Unescorted to Germany - Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress by Alex Hamilton
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13 June 1990. Along England's south coast, Concorde and a Spitfire of the BBMF.
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United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron 'Blue Angels'
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The last two airworthy Lancaster bombers in the world fly over the Derwent Reservoir in tribute to the Dambusters.
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24 October 2003. Concorde's final take-off from JFK airport.
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McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet flying low through the canyons of Northern California
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"The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down". General Chuck Yeager, USAF,
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24 November 1944. Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress.
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For those who have never seen German WW1 ace Ernst Udet's unpowered landing at the Chicago International Air Race in 1933.
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Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter taking off from HMS Barham's B Turret 1917
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1 February 2003. The moment in Mission Control when NASA personnel realised there had been a major malfunction.
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De Havilland Mosquito, fighter bomber. 400mph, 4x.303 machine guns, 4x20mm cannon, 8x60mm rockets and bombs as well.
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4 September 1971. First transatlantic crossing of the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde.
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This photograph of B-24 "Lady Be Good" was taken in 1960, two years after her wreckage was discovered.
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20 January 1974. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test, the GD test pilot, Phil Oestricher, decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine, and safely.landed it six minutes later.
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Harrier with malfunctioning front landing gear makes landing on a nose support. USS Bataan.
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