F-111 - Sweat Shirt Victor K.2 Tanker BAE Harrier GR9A

BAE Harrier GR9A

Alcock and Brown landed their aircraft in a bog near Clifden

Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star

The US Army Air Service was formed by order of President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 as the US entered the First World War after which the United States Army Air Corps was formed in 1926 as part of the United States Army as a result of legislative changes in the War Department

anti-ship and nuclear deterrant

F-111 - Sweat Shirt Victor K.2 Tanker BAE Harrier GR9AGeneral Dynamics F 111 Aardvark The F 111 entered service in 1967 as an interdictor, fighter bomber and strategic bomber. The F 111 pioneered new technologies such as variable sweep wings, afterburning turbo fan engines and terrain following radar for low level tasks at high speed. Having served in Vietnam and the Gulf war the Aardvark retired in 1996. The Royal Australian Air Force continued to use the aircraft up until 2010.