Steven Comber images in the latest issue of Aeroplane

 via Steven Comber's FB page..Steven's Polish MiG 17 images in the October 2026 issue... 

Swedish Air Force 100th Anniversary Flygvapnet Airshow by Steven Comber

 

Swedish Air Force 100th Anniversary Flygvapnet Airshow

repost/embed from the Steven Comber FB page

".. The airshow held at Malman Air Base promised to be one of 2026 most eagerly anticipated aviation events. Thankfully COAP's early morning Spotter Access and parking proved effortless, once on base it's fair to say the 235,000 attendees were not disappointed. Numbers like this are reminiscent of regular airshows in Japan. COAP's attendance on Friday 21st August 'Spotters Day' offered an opportunity to capture some very 'up close' and almost personal access to the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight with a mere handful of photographers at the fence opposite the live flight line! Knowing full well some of the SwAFHF types operational days & flight hours are numbered unobstructed access offered a perfect opportunity to capture some rather special SAAB aviation heritage imagery. Airbourne action capture proved more challenging with a less than ideal flying display axis and mixed weather, cloud structures made for some rather 'moody' imagery working with the light on base Saturday and outside Sunday. What. A. Weekend. .."

 as a taster, some of Steven's superb imagery of the Saab Tunnan at Malmen..

Resupplying Warsaw - August 1944

 

.. from the Polish Heritage Flight FB page...

In the summer of 1944, while Warsaw fought, Polish airmen of the 1586 Special Duties Flight flew night after night from Brindisi, Italy, in these B-24 Liberators — carrying weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to the fighting Home Army. This photograph shows members of one of those crews standing beside their aircraft. The distinctive nose art and the Polish checkerboard markings tell the story of men who knew the odds: a 1,500-kilometre round trip over enemy territory, no fighter escort, and no permission to land on Soviet airfields. Captain Zbigniew Szostak and his entire seven-man crew would not return from one of these missions. On the night of 14/15 August 1944 their Liberator KG890 was shot down near Bochnia on the way home after a successful drop over the city. None survived. Of the roughly 1,840 containers dispatched by Allied aircraft, only about a quarter ever reached the insurgents. Many aircrews paid the ultimate price for that limited help. Today a full-scale reconstruction of a Liberator stands in the Warsaw Rising Museum as a permanent tribute to their courage. We remember them.

Jagdgeschwader 74 "Mölders" Begins Flight Operations with Phantom F-4F

From Jägerblatt - the magazine of the German fighter pilots association - two items from the December 1974 issue.. 

Fighter Wing 74 "Mölders" Begins Flight Operations with Phantom F-4F 

 Bearing the inscription "Development Aid for Bavaria" ('Entwicklungshilfe für Bayern') and featuring a painting of three black-and-white East Frisian cows, the first two F-4F Phantoms for JG 74 "Mölders" took off from Wittmundhafen Air Base, bound for Neuburg an der Donau. Like Fighter Wing 71 "Richthofen" before it, the "Mölders" Wing in Neuburg is being equipped with the F-4FPhantom fighter variant. To ensure that JG 74 "M" did not receive only brand-new aircraft—thereby allowing scheduled maintenance to be staggered over time—Fighter Wing 71 "Richthofen" transferred two of its Phantoms (each with 100 flight hours logged) to the fighter unit in Neuburg. Naturally, the technicians at "Richthofen" couldn't resist adorning the first two "birds" with the slogan "Development Aid for Bavaria," accompanied by an illustration of three black-and-white spotted East Frisian cows.

Below; "Yeah, we're here on the bike"—that could be the theme song for the 'Cross Servicing' section (responsible for servicing visiting aircraft) at Fighter Wing Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen," where the first and second ground crewmen (erste und zweite Wart) use a tandem bicycle to guide visiting aircraft to their designated parking spots on the flight line. This specific tandem setup was originally designed to facilitate rapid servicing for visiting aircraft landing at Wittmundhafen—a task requiring the presence of both the first and second ground crewmen. However, it has since proven its worth in another capacity: serving as a backup should the standard "Follow Me" vehicle break down. When a Mirage landed at Wittmundhafen, the Belgian pilots could hardly believe their eyes as Oberfeldwebel Master Sergeant Gerd Segebrecht and Feldwebel Staff Sergeant Peter Groth appeared on a tandem bicycle to guide the crew to their aircraft's assigned parking spot.