August 31, 2011 - North American T-6 Texan
August, 1942 - Cadet L. Deitz at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

August 30, 2011 - Blackburn Beverley (2 of 2)
Photo: 1964

August 29, 2011 - Blackburn Beverley (1 of 2)
British heavy transport aircraft. First flight 1950.

August 28, 2011 - Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Flown from the UK to the Canadian Air Force Museum

August 27, 2011 - Aeronca Champion 7AC
The Aeronca Model 7 Champion, more commonly known as the Champ, is a single-engine, two-seat, fixed conventional gear airplane. Designed for flight training and personal use, it entered production in the United States in 1945.
Like the Piper Cub with which it competed, the Champ features tandem seating. While the J-3 model of the Cub is soloed from the rear seat, the Champ can be soloed from the front, giving improved forward visibility on the ground and during takeoffs, landings, and climbs. The Champ has a wider cabin than the Cub and offers better visibility.

August 26, 2011 - ERCO Ercoupe

August 25, 2011 - Douglas C-124 Globemaster II

August 24, 2011 - Bell P-59B Airacomet

August 23, 2011 - Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers (VIDEO)
Photo: April 20, 2006
KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft from the 40th Air Expeditionary Group sit on the ramp in the evening ready to support a B-52 Stratofortress mission over the skies of Afghanistan

August 22, 2011 - Miles Mohawk (2 of 2)
In 1936, when Lindbergh was on an extended mission to Europe, he asked George Miles to build a fast, long-range machine for use between the various capitals. Coming from such an expert, this was no small compliment to the Miles organisation and as a result of close co-operation between the pilot and designer, a first-class design was produced.

August 21, 2011 - Miles Mohawk (1 of 2)
The Miles Mohawk was a 1930s British two-seat, tandem cabin monoplane built by Miles Aircraft to the order of Charles Lindbergh in 1936. After being used by Lindbergh in Europe it was impressed into service with Royal Air Force as a communications aircraft in 1941.

August 20, 2011 - McDonnell Douglas / BAE T-45 Goshawk
Photo: October 29, 2010
A T-45 Goshawk training aircraft painted in a pre-World War II tactical aircraft paint scheme flies over Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas. The plane is one of nine training command aircraft being painted in celebration of the Centennial of Naval Aviation.

August 19, 2011 - North American T-6 Texan
Photo: 2010 Travis Air Museum 2nd Annual Mustang Days Wings and Wheels at the Nut Tree Airport, Vacaville, CA. That's a P-51 in the foreground.

August 18, 2011 - Republic F-84B Thunderjets
The Thunderjet became the Air Force's primary strike aircraft during the Korean War, flying 86,408 missions and destroying 60% of all ground targets in the war as well as eight Soviet-built MiG fighters..

August 17, 2011 - North American F-86 Sabre

August 16, 2011 - Bell RP-63 Kingcobra (Thanks for the update, Bill!)
The Bell P-63 Kingcobra was a United States fighter aircraft developed in World War II from the P-39 Airacobra in an attempt to correct that aircraft's deficiencies. Although the aircraft was not accepted for combat use by the United States Army Air Forces, it was successfully adopted by the Soviet Air Force. First flight 1942.
Its main use in American service was the unusual one of a manned flying target for gunnery practice. The aircraft was generally painted bright orange to increase its visibility. All armament and the regular armor was removed from these RP-63 aircraft, and over a ton of armored sheet metal was applied to the aircraft. This was fitted with sensors that would detect hits, and these hits were signaled by illuminating a light in the propeller hub where the cannon would have been. This earned the aircraft the unofficial nickname of Pinball.

August 15, 2011 - Grumman (General Motors) TBM-3 Avenger
The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) was a torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air or naval arms around the world.
It entered U.S. service in 1942, and first saw action during the Battle of Midway. Despite losing five of the six Avengers on its debut, it survived in service to become one of the outstanding torpedo bombers of World War II. Greatly modified after the war, it remained in use until the 1960s.
Starting in mid-1944, the TBM-3 began production (with a more powerful powerplant and wing hardpoints for drop tanks and rockets)

August 14, 2011 - Fokker F.XVIII Pelikaan
The Fokker F.XVIII was an airliner produced in the Netherlands, essentially a scaled-up version of the Fokker F.XII intended for long-distance flights. Like its predecessor, it was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Its cabin could seat 12 passengers, or four-to-six on seats convertible to sleeping berths. First flight 1932.

August 13, 2011 - North American F-107A

August 12, 2011 - Vought F6U Pirate
Thanks for the suggestion, Dave!
The Vought F6U Pirate was the company's first jet fighter, designed for US Navy during the mid-1940s. Although pioneering the use of turbojet power as the first naval fighter with an afterburner and composite material construction, the aircraft proved to be underpowered and was judged unsuitable for combat. None were ever issued to operational squadrons and they were relegated to development, training and test roles before they were withdrawn from service in 1950.

August 11, 2011 - North American FJ-1 Fury
The FJ-1 was an early transitional jet of limited success which carried over similar tail surfaces, wing and canopy derived from the piston-engined P-51 Mustang.

August 10, 2011 - Jetman, Yves Rossy (VIDEO1) (VIDEO2)

August 9, 2011 - Boeing 737

August 8, 2011 - Ryan YO-51 Dragonfly
The YO-51 Dragonfly was a United States prototype observation aircraft built for the US Army by Ryan Aeronautical. Typical for aircraft of its type, it was a high-wing braced parasol wing monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage, a two-seat open cockpit, and full-span slots and Fowler flaps for STOL capability.
At gross weight, the YO-51 could, without flaps, take off after a run of 400 feet, while with full flaps the take off run would be only 75 feet, or just four feet more than twice its own length. First flight 1940.

August 7, 2011 - McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Photo: July 2, 1999
Following an in-flight refueling with an Air Force KC-135, an F-4 "Phantom" attached to Naval Weapons Test Squadron, Point Mugu, California heads out to conduct weapons tests with USS Porter in Caribbean waters near Naval Station Roosevelt Roads.

August 6, 2011 - Fairchild PT-19s

August 5, 2011 - Vickers Wellington bombers

August 4, 2011 - Avro CF-105 Arrow (Thanks, Keith!)
Rollout

August 3, 2011 - Boeing NB-52E Stratofortress
Boeing NB-52E during the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory-Boeing Control Configured Vehicles program.

August 2, 2011 - de Havilland DH.106 Comet
The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. First flight 1949.

August 1, 2011 - Convair F-106A Delta Darts