Air Pictorial 1988-01
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One of the Irish Army Air Corps' Aerospatiale SA.365F Dauphin 2s, serial 244, prepares to land on the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel "Eithne", which has been specially equipped for helicopter operation
Westland Lynx HAS.3 ZD264 of No. 815 Squadron, armed with Stingray torpedoes, operating with the frigate H.M.S. "Minerva" off Portland Bill, October 1987
Defiant "JT:U" of No. 256 Squadron at Squires Gate in 1941. Fuselage fairings retracted automatically, as here, when the tur­ret was traversed
The MacAvia BAe 748 Turbine Tanker, G-BNJK, drops half its 2,000 U.S. gal. load of water during its first public demonstration at Cranfield on 12th November 1987. This fire-fighting prototype is now on a demonstration tour of France, Australia and the U.S.A.
Arnold Swanberg's photo of the Twin Otter used in a "nuclear winter" investigation
Photographed by Robert S. Ellis at San Antonio, Texas, in October 1987, N306SF is one of two Douglas C-117D "Super DC-3s" still operated by Skyfreighter Corporation