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24/09/2025

This news footage shows the Royal Air Force English Electric Lightning P.IB prototype in action during fire streak missile trials in 1957.

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19/09/2025

This news reel shows a failed attempt by Royal Air Force to launch a Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 from a motor gun boat in 1945.

The Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze (Wagtail) is a type of rotary-wing kite, known as a rotor kite. They were towed behind German Type IXD2 U-boats during World War II to allow a lookout to see further. About 200 were built by Weser Flugzeugbau.

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17/09/2025

This news footage shows the USAF and SAAF North American F-51D Mustangs attacking communist North Korean targets during the Korean War.

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15/09/2025

This footage shows a helicopter airlift by American and South Vietnamese troops to flush out Vietcong guerrillas out of the jungle and rice fields to the south and east of saigon in 1965. The heliborne assault was supported by U.S Army UH-1 gunships equipped with XM-6 Quad machine gun system, XM-157 70mm seven tube rocket launcher system, and XM-3 70mm twenty-four tube rocket launcher system.

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09/09/2025

This 1940 newsreel shows the first pictures of production level Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina amphibious aircraft of the U.S.Navy.

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25/08/2025

This 1941 news reel shows Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aviators flying the Grumman F4F Hellcat ( Martlet III) fighters in Egypt in 1941.

known as Martlet in fleet air arm service was taken on as an interim replacement for the Fairey Fulmar. The Fulmar was a two-seat fighter with a good range but operated at a performance disadvantage against single-seater fighters. Navalised Supermarine Spitfires were not available because of the greater need of the Royal Air Force.

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19/08/2025

This newsreel from 1945 shows that American made P-63 King Cobra fighters ferried to Fairbanks in Alaska before delivering to Russia, flown by Soviet pilots.

Early in 1944, American ferry-pilots delivered the first Kingcobras to Fairbanks and began to train Soviet pilots on them. In Alaska, only the squadron commanders of the ferrying aviation division were trained. All other pilots would master the new plane directly in their regiments at the front. The P-63 ferrying went along the Siberian ALS/B air route. The first plane was handed over in June 1944.

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19/08/2025

Bf 109 G-6/R6 W.Nr. 27 083 "DP+JC" "Schwarze 12", Fw. Heinz Hunig, 5./JG 2, Juvincourt, before 20 October 1943.

සාර්ථක ගුවන් මෙහෙයුමකින් පසු මිතුරෙකුගේ නැවත පැමිණීම ගැන, 2 වන ප්‍රහාරක බලඝණයේ හි ජර්මානු ගුවන් නියමුවන් සහ තව එක් නියමුවෙක් උද්යෝගයෙන් තමාගේ 'ජයග්‍රාහී සැරයටිය' වනමින් සුබ පතන අයුරු දැක්වෙන 1943 දි ගත් ඡායාරූපයක්.

දක්ෂ අත්දැකීම් බහුල නියමුවෙක් පියාසර කරන Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 'Kanonenboot' යානයක් ඇමරිකානු බර බෝම්බ හෙලන ගුවන් යානාවලට විශාල තර්ජනයක් එල්ල කලේය.
Bf 109 G-6 යානයේ ප්‍රාථමික අවි වූයේ අවර පෙති කේන්ද්‍රය හරහා වෙඩි තැබීම සඳහා 20 mm MG 151 කැනන් අවියක් සහ එන්ජිමට ඉහළින් සවි කර ඇති 13 mm MG 131 මැෂින් තුවක්කු දෙකකි. කැනන් අවිය සදහා පතොරම් 200 ක් තිබූ අතර, සෑම මැෂින් තුවක්කුවකම උණ්ඩ 300 ක් තිබුණි. සමහර G-6 ප්‍රභේදවලට 20 mm වෙනුවට 30 mm MK 108 අවියකින් සන්නද්ධ කිරීමට හැකිය. Kanoneboot යානයට අමතර පියාපත් යටින් සවිකර හැකි 20mm MG151 කැනන් අවි දෙකක් තිබූ අතර එමඟින් B-17 සහ B-24 යානාවලට එරෙහිව ප්‍රබල පහරක් එල්ල කිරීමට හැකි විය.

Cheering Luftwaffe pilots of Jagdgeschwader 2, one enthusiastically waving his own ‘victory stick’ greet a friend’s return from an obviously successful sortie in 1943.

In the hands of an Experten the Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 ‘Kanonenboot’ was more than a match for American heavy bombers.The Bf 109 G-6 typically had a primary armament of one 20 mm MG 151 cannon firing through the propeller hub and two 13 mm MG 131 machine guns mounted above the engine. The cannon had 200 rounds of ammunition, while each machine gun had 300 rounds. Some G-6 variants could also be equipped with a 30 mm MK 108 cannon instead of the 20 mm. The Kanoneboots had two extra underwing 20mm MG151 cannons giving them a potent punch against B-17s and B-24s.

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18/08/2025

This news reel shows famous German test pilot and aviatrix Hanna Reitsch flying inside the Deutschlandhalle sports stadium in Berlin, Germany, in 1938.

The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936.

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24/07/2025

This WW2 newsreel shows the Royal Air Force coastal command De Havilland Mosquito Mark XVIII 'Tstetse' with QF 6-pdr Class M Mark I 57mm anti tank gun with Molins autoloader. The weapon was fully automatic, with a cyclic rate of fire of about 55 rounds per minute with 21 rounds carried. It was intended for use against U-boats and fired solid shot that could pe*****te their hulls through 2 ft (61 cm) of water from 1,400 m. The weapon was used to sink a U-boat and, on one occasion, to shoot down a Junkers Ju 88 aircraft during an attack on IJN submarine I-29 off Cape P***s. It was replaced in 1943 by the more versatile but less accurate RP-3 3-inch Rocket Projectile.

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14/07/2025

This footage shows the arrival of the very first IDF/AF F-16s that was delivered in July 1980. The first four F-16s flew an 11 hour non-stop from the United States to Israel. They were part of a consignment of seventy-five fighters the Israeli Government has ordered. Although the last 22 of these aircraft were put on hold by the Reagan Administration following the Raid on the Osirak reactor, final deliveries took place in 1981.

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02/06/2025

A quick introduction of the Royal Air Force's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor. Slower and less heavily armed than its German counterpart, the jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262, the Meteor saw limited action in the Second World War.

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