This day in Aviation History: January 8th 1944 – First flight of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Designed and built by Lockheed in 1943 and delivered just 143 days from the start of the design process, […]
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Today in Aviation History 7 January 1785, the English Channel is crossed for the 1st time “by air” in a hydrogen balloon! (231 years ago today) 7 January 1785 (England/France) — The English Channel is crossed for the first time by air as pioneering aviators Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries fly their hydrogen balloon. The first flight […]
New U.S. Navy / Northrop Grumman contract aims to equip hundreds of ships with drones! [sws_facebook_share][sws_facebook_like href=”” showfaces=”false” width=”200″ height=”21″ action=”like” layout=”standard” colorscheme=”light” font=”arial”] [/sws_facebook_like] The Pentagon is hoping a multimillion-dollar investment in new technology will enable drones on hundreds of Navy ships to provide air support to operations around the globe. The goal of the […]
2016 – The Future Is HERE! To all those bold new adventurers who push the boundaries of technology – We at Squadron Posters salute you! Check out this real hoverboard invented by a Canadian that actually flies. This past May, Montreal inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru broke the world record for the longest hoverboard flight. Duru flew up to five metres above […]
An aviator call sign or callsign is a nickname given to a military pilot, flight officer, and even some enlisted aviators. This call sign is a substitute for the aviator’s given name, and is used on flight suit and flight jacket name tags, painted/displayed beneath the officer’s or enlisted aircrewman’s name on aircraft fuselages or canopy rails, and in radio conversations. They are […]
This job looks pretty sweet. This massive cargo plane flies just 300 feet over mountain tops and rips through valleys at over 300 knots. Also, people jump out of it. Oh and when it gets low on fuel? It just snags a few hundred thousand pounds from the local flying KC-135 gas station tanker. Then […]
This Day in Military Aviation History 19 June 1968: The night of 18 – 19 June 1968, a flight of 3 aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) were on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. “Root Beer 210″ was a McDonnell Douglas F-4J-33-MC Phantom II, Bu. No. 155546, flown by Lieutenant Commander John “Claw” Holtzclaw […]
The model for Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter,” Mary Doyle Keefe a symbol for American women working on the home front during World War II passed away at her home in Simsbury, Connecticut, at age 92 on April 21, 2015. According to the Associated Press, Keefe posed for Rockwell when she was a 19-year-old telephone operator living […]
US Navy drone makes history: first drone aerial refueling The US Navy conducted its 1st ever aerial refueling of it’s Northrop Grumman X-47B carrier based drone demonstrator aircraft Wednesday at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. The X-47B was refueled by an Omega Air Refueling Tanker, US Navy and Northrop Grumman officials said. The carrier based drone made aviation history when it flew […]
At squadronposters.com we appreciate the the old school military aviation nose art and propaganda poster art from generations past. Nose art and propaganda poster art from WWI and WWII continues to inspire our vintage style military travel posters today! There are over 500 posters in the archival collection with 150 of them from the WWI era at […]