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Three U.S. Marine Corps Douglas F4D-1 Skyray fighters of Marine all-weather fighter squadron VMF(AW)-114 Death Dealers on the catapults of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), in 1959. VMF(AW)-114 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 1 (CVG-1) aboard the FDR for a deployment to the Mediterranean Sea from 13 February to 1 September 1959.
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A U.S. Navy North American FJ-4B Fury (BuNo 143494) of experimantal squadron VX-4 armed with six AGM-12A Bullpup air-to-ground missiles in the late 1950s.
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A U.S. Air Force Fairchild C-119B-10-FA Flying Boxcar of the 314th Troop Carrier Group in 1952. This aircraft (s/n 49-102) was later converted to an C-119C in 1955/56. Original caption: "The 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 Flying Boxcars do not start out for the "mountain" unless weather reports are good. They must be able to see the tiny drop zone on the peak before they can drop. But weather is so unpredictable in the high mountains, that often when the planes arrive, the entire area is "socked in" with heavy clouds. In the radio contact with the "men on the mountains," the pilots circle hoping for a break in the clouds, or sometimes, to dive under the clouds and drop on the lower slopes. On several occasions, the planes have had to return to Japan as many as three times without dropping. But 314th Troop Carrier Group pilots are presistant, and eventually win through to drop successfully.
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Lt. Joseph J. MacBrien, an exchange pilot from the Royal Canadian Navy, serving with the U.S. Navy fighter squadron VF-781, lands his Grumman F9F-5 Panther (BuNo 126034) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off coast of Korea on 15 November 1952. VF-781 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 101 for a deployment to Korea from 15 September 1952 to 18 May 1953.
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A U.S. Naval Air Reserve Martin Mauler AM-1Q Mauler electronic countermeasures aircraft (BuNo 22345) at the Naval Air (Reserve) Station Glenview, Illinois, in the early 1950s.
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In order to extend the range of the new generation of jet aircraft, a B-29 was fitted with a flying boom for experiments in air-to-air refueling. Here, a KB-29 delivers fuel to an F-86A Sabre over Rogers Dry Lake. Note that the fighter is flying nose-high in order to match its speed to the slower tanker; even so, it had to lower its landing gear for additional drag.
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A Convair F-102A at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska in January 1958
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