A formation of Grumman F8F-1 Bearcats from NAS Glenview, photographed by HAROLD G. MARTIN in May 1953.

Supermarine Spitfire Vbs of No 303 (Polish) Squadron, RAF, take off from Northolt to make a sweep across the English Channel in 1942.

This formation of No 34 SFTS Harvards is seen near its Medicine Hat, Alta, base in 1944.

The parachutist is not about to be reduced to confetti by the Grumman Avenger but has bailed out of another aircraft nearer the camera. The parachutist, attached to the US Navy’s Parachute Experimental Unit, was testing a parachute with an over-sized envelope in 1950.