The wing is bent like that because the propeller is thirteen feet four inches across and they had to keep it off the deck. Vought F4U-4 Corsair OE-EAS of the Flying Bulls, Zeltweg 2019 [2600x1733]
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The wing is bent like that because the propeller is thirteen feet four inches across and they had to keep it off the deck. Vought F4U-4 Corsair OE-EAS of the Flying Bulls, Zeltweg 2019 [2600x1733]

u/piemags_aviation — 9 hours ago
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They had to fit guards over the wings so the groundcrew didn't cut themselves on them. Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter N992SF, ex-Italian Air Force MM54261, Sun 'n Fun, Florida 2025

u/The_happyguy — 1 day ago
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Until Saturday she was the only airworthy de Havilland DH.88 Comet in the world. G-ACSS Grosvenor House, still wearing the race number 34 she took to Melbourne in 1934

u/adamems — 2 days ago

Westland Lysander in the night black of 161 Squadron, who put SOE agents into French fields by moonlight

u/piemags_aviation — 4 days ago
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US Navy E-6B Mercury, one of only 16 built, at the Spirit of St. Louis air show, Missouri, 2026

u/piemags_aviation — 6 days ago

Boeing TB-29 Superfortress, Doc, In 1st Radar Calibration Squadron markings, Griffiss AFB, 1952–53, air-to-air, in-flight, Pacific Air Show 2025

u/piemags_aviation — 8 days ago

Hellenic Air Force F-4E AUP Phantom head on over Greece, shot air-to-air from the ramp of a Skyvan [4020x2680]

u/piemags_aviation — 9 days ago
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My last post was received very well, so here is a clear view of the office for that day's shoot and the N161AZ Canadair CT-133 Silver Star over the Superstition Mountains, Arizona.

u/piemags_aviation — 13 days ago

N161AZ Canadair CT-133 Silver Star Arizona Air National Guard air-to-air over the Superstition Mountains, Arizona, from my very first air-to-air sortie!

u/piemags_aviation — 14 days ago