The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pacific Ocean. 1945. Looking like a giant insect with its wings clipped, this Seafire has its wings folded in preparation to stowing it away in the small hangars below the flight deck.
Pacific Ocean. 1945. The folding wings of a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Seafire are unfurled hand over hand by mechanics aboard HMS Implacable. All aircraft used on a carrier must have folding wings to e
Pacific Ocean. 1945. When the planes have landed on the flight deck of HMS Implacable, they are placed on a giant lift and taken down one or two decks to the stowage hangars and workshops for maintena
Iwakuni, Japan. 1954. Crewmembers of the RAN aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney III relaxing and sunbathing on the flight deck. Behind them are Seafire and Seafury aircraft parked with folded wings.
Pacific Ocean. 1945. Aircraft tugs, resembling small jeeps, are used to tow heavy aircraft around the flight deck of modern carriers. This shot was taken on board HMS Implacable, operating in the Paci
Pacific Ocean. 1945. Dozens of ratings were needed to shift this Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Avenger aircraft after it has been smashed in landing on the flight deck of HMS Implacable.
PACIFIC OCEAN. C.1945. A US NAVY CURTISS SB2C HELLDIVER BOMBER, STILL AIRBORNE AFTER ITS TAIL HOOK HAS MISSED THE ARRESTING GEAR, HAS HAD ITS UNDERCARRIAGE CAUGHT IN THE CRASH BARRIER OF AN ESSEX CLAS
