The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BELL AIRACOBRA, AMERICAN DESIGNATION P-39. THIS IS A RARE PHOTOGRAPH, LOCATION UNKNOWN; SHOWING WHAT APPEARS TO BE A ROYAL AIR FORCE SERIAL BW-114 ON FUSELAGE. BRITISH (PACIFIC AREA) BLUE/ WHITE ROUNDEL, NO. RED, NO. 266 ON FIN, AND AN AMERICAN STAR UNDER WING. APPENDIX 4, PAGE 117 OF "THE GOLDEN YEARS, OFFICIAL RAAF PUBLICATION IN 1971, INDICATES THAT 22 OF THESE AIRCRAFT, WITH SERIAL PREFIX A53- ALLOCATED, WERE (AT LEAST ON PAPER) TAKEN ON RAAF CHARGE; AND THAT NOS. 23 AND 24 SQUADRONS, RAAF, HAD SOME ISSUED TO THEM (AT LEAST ON PAPER). NOTE DROPPABLE BELLY TANK. SEE V-651 AND V653, SHOWING WAAAF AIRCRAFTWOMEN, POSSIBLY TRAINEE FITTERS, WITH THREE OF THESE AIRCRAFT, POSSIBLY AT POINT COOK (VIC). POSSIBLY DOWNGRADED FOR USE AS INSTRUCTIONAL AIRFRAMES.
View of the starboard side of a Bell P-39D Airacobra, an American fighter aircraft, with an American star under the wing and the number BW 117 on the tail. 22 Airacobras were delivered to the RAAF at
View of the port side of three Bell P-39D Airacobra aircraft, flying in formation over Australia. These fighter aircraft, seen with an American star on the wing and tail, belonged to the US Army Air C
Port (left) view of two Bell P-400 Airacobra aircraft in flight, possibly over Australia. Note the early Second World War American star on the side of the aircraft on both aircraft and the fitting of
Hosc Raui, Cyrenaica, Libya. 25 October 1943. Armourers bombing up showing the terrible amount of high explosives in the belly of one of the Halifax aircraft. Huge Handley-Page Halifax bomber aircraft
General Dynamics RF-111C swing wing all-weather supersonic attack and reconnaissance aircraft. All metal construction with the two crew (pilot and navigator/systems operator) sitting side by side in
One sixteenth scale model of a P-39D Airacobra fighter plane made primarily from aluminium and clear plastic. The starboard (right) side is finished with aluminium skinning, while the port side is par
