Airfield Gallery

US Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter

Pictured are two US Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk Multi-Mission Helicopters at Kandahar Airfield in 2010.
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft.
The primary mission of the Blackhawk helicopter is as a troop carrier and logistical support aircraft, but in addition the helicopter can be configured to carry out medical evacuation, command-and-control, search-and-rescue, armed escort, electronic warfare and executive transport missions.
Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Provence in Afghanistan was used by the RAF for combat operations from 2001 to 2014.
Part of Kandahar Airfield was known as RAF Kandahar, It operated RAF, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps aircraft and was one end of the "Air Bridge" that started inRAF Brize Norton in the UK.
All otherISAFairborne forces were also based there.
Kandahar International Airport as it was called originally is located some 10 miles South-East of the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
It is the country's second international airport and one of its biggest military bases, it has the space for over two hundred military aircraft

New Imperial Airways Aircraft At Croydon

An aerial view of the christening ceremony for five Handley Page airliners of Imperial Airways at Croydon Aerodrome, London, 30th March 1926. The aircraft are, from top to bottom: a Farman F.63 Goliath of the French airline, Air Union, the four Handley Page W.10 and one Handley Page W.9 Hampstead aircraft being christened, three Imperial Airways Handley Page W.8b aircraft and an Avro 536 of Surrey Flying Services. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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WW2 - American Red Cross Clubmobile - UK

Sighted Sinkers - Sank Same! WW2 - American Red Cross Clubmobile (USAF) - Somewhere in Great Britain'. American airforce personnel relaxing with coffee and doughnuts. In the rear one can see the nose of the Boeing B17E 41-9020 Flying Fortress Bomber of the US Airforce Phyllis, initially stationed at RAF Polebrook before joining the 92nd Brigade at Bovingdon (as pictured here?) in 1942. (see: 10726079, 10993898, 11677458, 11679833 and 10726078 for another four cards from this series) Date: 1942