Maxine

This is a colorized photograph of the F-5C Lightning “Maxine” (42-67114) of the the 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on a low flyby of the RAF airfield at Attlebridge around February 1945. The original is somewhat low quality, but there is a second higher quality photo of possibly the same pass. The photograph doesn’t name the …

Naval Aviation in World War I

“20 [July, 1918] — The RAF Station, Killingholme, England, from which U.S. Navy pilots had been flying patrols since February 1918, was turned over to American forces and established as a Naval Air Station, Lieutenant Commander K. Whiting in command.” Killingholme, England “The former British seaplane patrol station turned over to the U.S. and commissioned …