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Cold War Plane Stock Photos

Browse 954 cold war plane photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

Spy plane like the one Francis Powers was piloting when shot down over Russia; at Edwards Air Force Base.

U2 spy plane like the one Francis Powers

Aeroplane, U2 Plane, Cold War

aerial tanker & jet fighers - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Aerial tanker & jet fighers

Convoy, Cold War, Military Aeroplane

Children, silhouetted amid the ruins of Berlin, look to the skies as an RAF aircraft passes overhead, during the Soviet blockade of the city....

Flight Over Berlin

Group of German children stand atop building rubble, cheering a United States cargo airplane as it flies over a western section of Berlin. American...

Berlin Children Cheering Airlift Plane

Berlin Blockade, Child, Aeroplane

Neptune US patrol plane flying over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis.

Cuban Missile Crisis, Crisis, Missile

flop gun jet explosion - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Flop Gun jet explosion

Fighter Plane, Cold War, Exploding

Neptune U.S. Patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in this 1962 photograph. Former Russian and U.S. Officials...

FILE PHOTO 40th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba, Missile, Crisis

Victor Ivanov, pilot of a Russian Tupolev TU 104 passenger aircraft, is one of the Russian diplomats the British government considers a spy and...

Russian Pilot Victor Ivanov

the propeller - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Aeroplane, Old-fashioned, Retro Style

Fire trucks spray water in celebration over a vintage DC-3 plane that once participated n the Berlin Airlift and will be part of the Candy Bomber...

Candy Bomber To Fly Again

Aeroplane, Water, Spray

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Old Soviet aircraft

Cold War, Old-fashioned, Retro Style

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Soviet art propaganda poster

Cold War, Missile, Communism

American Convair B.36D 'Peacemaker' strategic bombers under construction at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation's plant in Fort Worth,...

Peacemaker Assembly

Cold War, US Military

soviet era propaganda poster style - cold war plane stock illustrations

Soviet era propaganda poster style

Russia, Former Soviet Union, Cold War

Single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, used by CIA, NASA, and USAF. This U-2 flew the first operational mission over the...

Aeroplane, Surveillance, USA

The tail sections of American Convair B.36 'Peacemaker' strategic bombers protruding from the wall of a building at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft...

Peacemaker tails

1950-1959, Cold War, Factory

Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba. U.S. Planes and ships, armed with orders to...

London Headlines

Cuban Missile Crisis, Newspaper, Cuba

silhouettes of various military aircraft and vehicles against a dramatic sunset sky,hahvaxnaz,cuba,havana - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Silhouettes of various military aircraft and vehicles against a dramatic sunset sky,Hahvaxnaz,Cuba,Havana

Missile, War, Technology

Russian-made Tupolev TU-16 Badger-A surveillance bomber is escorted by U. S. Navy fighters during Cold War activities over the North Pacific Ocean in...

Tupolev TU-16 Bomber in Flight With U. S. Navy Escort

Cold War, Aeroplane

Richard Nixon and Premier Brezhnev wave from the doorway of Air Force One at San Clemente, California.

Nixon and Brezhnev

Richard Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev, Russia

Lorry in the British Zone waiting for supplies to be unloaded from Dakota planes during the Berlin airlift and Berlin Blockade.

Beating The Blockade

Berlin Blockade

Lockheed u2 spy plane like the one piloted by gary frances powers that was shot down over soviet territory in 1960.

Lockheed u2 spy plane like the one piloted by gary frances powers that was shot down over soviet territory in 1960.

Spy, Surveillance, Aeroplane

lone woman with umbrella on empty runway 27 left at tempelhof airport in berlin on a rainy day. - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Lone woman with umbrella on empty runway 27 left at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin on a rainy day.

Women, World War II, One Woman Only

German 'Tornado' fighter aircraft prepares to land at Büchel air base on February 27, 2019 near Cochem, Germany. The Büchel air base, officially a...

With INF Treaty Threatened, Cold War Fears Return

Germany, Fighter Plane

Trail Of The B 52 Trial Aircraft In Usa On April 15Th 1952

Trail Of The B 52 Trial Aircraft In Usa On April 15Th 1952

Explosive, Flying

avro vulcan bomber in sky - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Avro Vulcan Bomber in sky

UK, RAF, Air Vehicle

Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at...

B52s Aviation Desert Boneyard

Arizona, Aeroplane

Post World War II, Berlin Airlift An allied Dakota plane brings aid to starving Berliners

Post World War II. Berlin Airlift, 1948. An allied Dakota plane brings aid to starving Berliners.

Berlin Blockade, Airlift, Famine

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles near a model of Ukrainian AN-74tk-200 jet during an opening ceremony of the International Aviation and Space...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) smi

Those drat Yanks are everywhere. Franklin cartoon 12th May 1960 Nikita Khrushchev lights a rocket aimed at a U2 spy plane as the periscope of the USS...

Berlin Blockade Solemn reception of the first transport plane of the US Air Force at the new airport in Tegel by a music corps of the French army

Berlin Blockade Solemn reception of the first transport plane of the US Air Force at the new airport in Tegel by a music corps of the French army

Berlin Blockade

Murders to Answer USSR anti-American Protest Poster, illustrated by Victor Koretsky 1986, United States aircraft in bombing run over image of crying...

USSR CCCP Soviet Union Propaganda Poster, Murders to Answer For

Cold War, Propaganda, Poster

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama leave official plane "Air Force One" as it landed Jose Marti nternational Airport during the first...

US President Obama in Cuba

Aeroplane, Michelle Obama

Fighter Trails A Russian Tu-95 Bomber Over Icelandic Airspace June 25, 1999. The Bomber, Along With Another Russian Strategic Bomber, Was Intercepted...

U S F 15 Fighter Trails A Russian Tu 95 Bomber Over Icelandic Airspace

Russian Culture, Explosive

"Some people waiting for U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower at the airport in front of Lockheed Constellation's Columbine airplane. The Geneva Summit...

The plane of Dwight Eisenhower landed at the Geneva Airport

American airforce personnel unloading sacks of flour from a C74 Globemaster cargo plane at Gatow, Berlin as part of the Berlin Airlift.

Berlin Blockade, World War II

On the tarmac at Rhein-Main, Frankfurt, crew of a Transport Squadron Six plane belonging to the US navy, involved in the Berlin Airlift, raise a...

No More Blockade

Berlin Blockade, USA, Armed Forces

Line of people watch as a supply plane arrives to deliver food and other staples during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, West Germany.

Berlin Blockade, Airlift, Food

Francis Gary Powers, the American U2 spy plane pilot on trial in Russia on charges of espionage. This picture shows his parents in court with his...

Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the USA U-2 spy plane which crashed in Russia, May 1960, appearing before a US Senate Armed Forces Committee in...

Francis Gary Powers

Pilot, Gary Powers, Spy

President of the Council of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev welcomes Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow on...

USSR-INDIA-NEHRU-KHRUSHCHEV-DIPLOMACY-OFFICIAL VISIT-AIRPORT-COLD WAR

Parts of the emergency military survival kit found in u2 spy plane when pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over soviet territory on may 1 ussr,...

Parts of the emergency military survival kit found in u2 spy plane

Gary Powers, Surveillance, Spy

Photos taken by american u2 spy plane shot down over soviet territory in 1960, the photo shows soviet industrial and strategic facilities, pilot of...

Photos taken by american u2 spy plane shot down over soviet territory in 1960, the photo shows soviet industrial and strategic facilities, pilot of u2 plane: gary frances powers.

U2 Plane, Military Reconnaissance Aeroplane, Cold War

american spy jet airplane - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

American spy jet airplane

Fighter Plane, USA

Trucks load planes used during the famous Berlin Airlift, during the Berlin occidental zone blockade by Russia, in June 1948, in Francfurt. The...

Aeroplane, Blockade - Concept, Berlin

Soviet destroyer shadowing a US Navy aircraft carrier with fighter jets on the deck during NATO exercises, 1962.

Soviet Destroyer Shadows A US Aircraft Carrier

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from...

A fully laden USAF Republic F-10 5D-30-RE in flight.

Air Force, Aeroplane, Vietnam War

Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bomber is intercepted by a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II on the borders of NATO-controlled territory, 7th October 1973.

Bear And Phantom

Cold War, Bomber Plane, Soviet Military

An abandoned USSR era An 2 airplane is located on a farmer field near the village of Kalimantsi, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. An 2 was one of...

Abandoned Air Planes In Kalimantsi

Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker 39 of the Ukrainian Air Force with blue digital camo livery seen flying on final approach and landing at Kleine Brogel Military...

Sukhoi SU 27 Of Ukrainian Air Force

Air Force, Ukraine, Aeroplane

Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker 39 of the Ukrainian Air Force with blue digital camo livery seen flying on final approach and landing at Kleine Brogel Military...

Sukhoi SU 27 Of Ukrainian Air Force

Ukraine, Air Force, Aeroplane

French air cargo is unloded on July 08, 1948 at Gatow airport in the Berlin British-controlled zone during the Berlin blockade by Russia. On June 24...

GERMANY-BERLIN-BLOCKADE-AIRLIFT

Berlin, Blockade - Concept, Russia

An American Convair B-58 Hustler strategic bomber at a US air base in Britain, 17th October 1963.

Convair B-58 Hustler

Cold War, Military Base

military jet aircraft f-16 - cold war plane stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Military jet aircraft F-16

Navy, Air Force, Poland

Broken ex USAF Boeing B-52s with wings and fuselages cut apart by a huge guillotine, in the desert, then left in place for satellite monitoring,...

broken ex USAF Boeing B-52s with wings and fuselages cut apart by a huge guillotine

Desert Area, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Aeroplane

Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at...

B52s Aviation Desert Boneyard

Air Vehicle, Recycling

Awaiting recycling and destruction are Boeing B-52 bombers from the Cold War era, now aluminium junk in the arid desert, on 15th August 1998, at...

B52s Aviation Desert Boneyard

Air Force, Air Vehicle

Aircraft AVRO Vulcan XH558 Aug 1987 Avro Vulcan B2 bomber XH558 of the RAF Vulcan Display Team from RAF Waddington,LFEY003, Flight100.

AVRO Vulcan XH558

Heathrow, England, 24th October 1969, Russian Spies Helen and Peter Kroger board a plane at the airport destined for Russia after being released from...

Heathrow, England, 24th October 1969, Russian Spies Helen and Peter Kroger board a plane at the airport destined for Russia after being released from jail in exchange for a British Spy

Heathrow, England, 24th October 1969, Russian Spies Helen and Peter Kroger board a plane at the airport destined for Russia after being released from...

Heathrow, England, 24th October 1969, Russian Spies Helen and Peter Kroger board a plane at the airport destined for Russia after being released from jail in exchange for a British Spy

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