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TARGET TOKYO: The B-29's Vengeance [RESTORED 1945 FILM & PACIFIC WAR DOC]
Full Video: youtu.be/mCm-Frz3wyg
Fully restored and colorized 1945 documentary "Target Tokyo," detailing the first B-29 Superfortress raid from the Marianas.
#aviation #WWII #restored #colorizedhistory #B29 #Superfortress
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
ESCORT TO HELL: The P-47 Thunderbolts' WWII Mission to Emden (1943 Restored Historical Video)
Fully restored documentary in color: youtu.be/U120TUVJ7MI
#aviation #WWII #restored #colorizedhistory #p47thunderbolt
September 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The restored and fully colorized version of the rare 1943 documentary, "THE THUNDERBOLTS--RAMROD TO EMDEN,".
Complete documentary: youtu.be/U120TUVJ7MI
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
RAF Bomber Command Overhead view of an early Vickers Wellington Mk I in flight.
🎥 VIDEO: Target for To-Night youtu.be/ZwS4WCBzxUo
📷 HD IMAGE: dronescapes.video/vickers
📸 Ultra HD image available for members 🎖️
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September 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
August 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Rolls-Royce Made in the U.S.A. Packard Merlin Engine.
When the Merlin crossed the Atlantic, it got an American makeover. Packard, the luxury car maker building it, didn't just copy the design.

📷 HD IMAGE: dronescapes.video/Packard
🎥 Member's VIDEO: youtu.be/2GmTGGvThDg
August 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
North American F-86A-5 Sabre 49-1080 in Korea, 1951 – Note the 5-inch HVAR Rocket Mounted inboard of the fuel tank. This aircraft was written off at Suwon AB, South Korea, in May 1951
🎥 VIDEO - North American F-86, also featuring Eric "Winkle" Brown: youtu.be/vNl9xAW8-iU
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
While flying at Mach 3.2 and over 74,000 feet, a YF-12 fired a missile at a JQB-47E target drone that was only 500 feet off the ground.
Credit: Romain Hugault
🎥 SR-71, A-12, Area 51 Video:
youtu.be/vwv6BiaUtDU
📷 HD IMAGE: dronescapes.video/YF12
#aviationlover #SkunkWorks #aviation #coldwar
August 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder," the De Havilland Mosquito WWII aircraft was a blistering fast, versatile fighter-bomber made almost entirely of wood!
🎥 FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/bQrl9Z6attE
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
American Overseas Airline Stratocruiser B-377 in 1950.
AOA operated on transatlantic routes and merged with Pan American World Airways in September 1950. Their Stratocruisers were integrated into Pan Am's fleet.
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/KJgu2htaLbk
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Gloster/Whittle E.28/39, the first British turbojet-engined aircraft, powered by the first turbojet, invented by Frank Whittle in April 1937:
Documentary: youtu.be/G0T4-XG612Q
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The second A-10 Thunderbolt II (YA-10) prototype aircraft being assembled at Fairchild Republic's plant in early 1972.
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/eLBgPZTD8ls
#military #aviation #A10 #warthog
July 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Crew loading "Lousy New Year Adolph" bomb on a 9th Air Force Douglas A-20B Havoc nicknamed "Eleven's Worth"
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/T_fFN0YxYwM
July 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Vought OS2U Kingfisher being hoisted aboard USS Missouri (BB-53) in 1944
🎥 FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/50It5k332Jk
#aviation #history #colorized #kingfisher #WWII
July 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Flying Wing. Northrop's early prototypes, the B-2 Spirit And Cancelled Projects. Includes upscaled and colorized original footage.
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/nLI2OdGvjs0
#avgeek #flyingwing #WWII
June 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Grumman's XF5F-1 Skyrocket Prototype C/n 1442 at the Bethpage plant in 1940
June 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird startup sequence
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, Patrol Squadron 61 (VP-61) near the Aleutian Islands, March 1943. It crashed in January 1944 at Massacre Bay, Attu.
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/kC2t6bre4k0
📷 HD IMAGE: dronescapes.video/PBY5
June 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
WW2 LUFTWAFFE ACES: Adolf Galland PART 2. Barbarossa & Messerschmitt Me 262 Blunders [Documentary]
youtu.be/IFC-0DgyLec
#aviation #History
June 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Piasecki HRP Rescuer, also called Harp, tandem-rotor transport or rescue helicopter, Circa 1947
🎥 History Of Early Helicopters: youtu.be/c3QzxdU8u3Q
📷 HD IMAGE: shorturl.at/MiPtP
#aviationlovers
June 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More Than Just a Fighter" Messerschmitt Bf 109 lesser known facts and Heinz Orlowski's story [VIDEO]
youtu.be/pqUtjJQyyxg?...
#avgeek #history #WWII #Germany #Messerschmitt
June 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When Giants Flew: The Lost World of WWII's Massive Seaplanes
youtu.be/laJ9OAT1n7s
#aviation #history #documentary
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Vietnam War: How It Really Happened
youtu.be/kEL_P-wDBNg
The Vietnam War: How It Really Happened | Decoding the Conflict | Upscaled Footage
YouTube video by DroneScapes
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June 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Clarence Lawrence "Kelly" Johnson, leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works in one of his babies, the Lockheed A-12 "Titanium Goose" trainer.
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/jkJ3dwAHnhQ
📷 HD IMAGE: dronescapes.video/KJohnson
#kellyjohnson #skunkworks #avgeek #biography #aviation
May 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Kelly Johnson explains the two-seater A-12 created to launch a new drone. The manned aircraft and drone were redesignated M-21 and D-21 respectively because of their nicknames – “Mother” and “Daughter”. 1966
🎥 VIDEO: youtu.be/vwv6BiaUtDU
#skunkworks #kellyjohnson #A12 #yf12 #coldwar
May 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM