Soaring Collection

Italian Grand Prix poster
Poster for the meeting of the first ever Italian Grand Prix, held at Brescia - 4th to the 11th September 1921. The meeting also includes racing for aeroplanes and motorcycles

Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon
A peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) in flight. The peregrine falcon can be seen in most parts of the UK except around london and the home counties. They breed in rocky cliffs and uplands

de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk G-AOUO of Air Service Training. AOUO was purchsed by the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association in the early 1970s and converted to a Supermunk

Interior, Birmingham Railway Station
Passengers await their train beneath Birmingham Stations soaring canopy, upheld by a lattice of girders providing a wide span over the tracks

Elliott's of Newbury EoN Type 7 Primary, of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association at RAF Upavon. Date: circa 1960

WW2 - An Improved Supermarine Spitfire
An illustration of a British WW2 Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane soaring through the skies. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Card, British Fighter Plane
A WW2 Christmas greetings card cover, the illustration shows a British fighter plane soaring by a large Union Jack flag. Date: circa 1940s

Handley Page Hampden Bomber At Night
This coloured double page illustration shows a British Handley Page Hampden heavy bomber plane soaring through the night sky

Handley Page Hampden Bomber
This illustration shows a group of children watching a large British Handley Page Hampden bomber heavy bomber plane soaring through the sky. Date: 1942

Fauvel AV. 36 R15
Fauvel AV.36 R15, a tail-less glider of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, based at the RAFGSA Centre, RAF Bicester

SZD-30 Pirat 526 and Schleicher Ka-8b 245
SZD-30 Pirat 526 (msn S.0145, BGA.1962), of the Royal Navay gliding and Soaring Association, with Schleicher Ka-8b 245 of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association Date: circa 1981

Slingsby T. 65C Sport Vega R23
Slingsby T.65C Sport Vega R23, of the Royal air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, at RAF Greenham Common for an Inter-Services Regional gliding competition in the 1980s. Date: circa 1981

Schempp-Hirth Janus C R1, of the Royal air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, at RAF Greenham Common for an Inter-Services Regional gliding competition in the 1980s. Date: circa 1981

Schleicher Ka-7 Rhonadler 353, of the Fulmar Gliding Club, resident at RAF Kinloss. Fulmar Gliding Club is one of several Gliding clubs countrywide

Airship Nulli Secundus Flying Over London 1907
The new British military airship Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus, soaring around the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Date: 5th October 1907

Piper Pawnee G-BDPJ
Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee G-BDPJ (msn 25-3665), in use as a glider tug with the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RSAFGSA), Date: circa 2000

Supermunk - G-ATVF
de Havilland DHC-1 Supermunk - G-ATVF of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA) Date: circa 1995

Schleicher ASW17 26, on the grid at a gliding competition in the UK. This aircraft, owned by the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA)

Let L-13 Blanik R14, 2-seat training glider of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA). Date: 1980s

United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk G-AOSU (msn 0217 - ex RAF WB722) at Newcastle Airport. In 1977, this aircraft was in the process of conversion to the Supermunk prototype

BRITISH SAILOR
The British tar is a soaring soul... Date: circa 1855

British Sailor - circa 1855
The British tar is a soaring soul... Date: circa 1855

SING SOARING LARK / GRIMM
The lion confronts the traveller who tries to steal the lark Date: circa 1905

A de Havilland Supermunk - G-AOSU
A de Havilland Supermunk (G-AOSU) glider tug, of the Royal Air Force Gliding & Soaring Association (RAFGSA). The RAFGSA, provides adventure training in gliding for all three services

A de Havilland Supermunk (G-AOSU) glider tug of the RAFGSA
A de Havilland Supermunk (G-AOSU) glider tug, of the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA). the RAFGSA, provides adventure training in gliding for all three services

Flying a Chinese kite on the banks of the River Mersey near Liverpool. The Times Date: 1987

Charles Reade - 3
CHARLES READE Novelist, notably The Cloister and the Hearth depicted soaring above everyday life ! Date: 1814 - 1884

John Ruskin (Waddy)
JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer, soaring above sordid reality in an ideal world of esthetic exclusiveness... Date: 1819 - 1900

Peter Pan by J M Barrie
promotional postcard for Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. First produced at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, 27th December 1904. Artist: John Hassall. J. A. E. Malones Co

WW1 - British seaplane squadron on patrol
WW1 - A view from the sky, as if flying with the British squadron. Depicting the majestic quality of " The Avengers" and of British pride

Gliding with motorless aircraft by G. H. Davis
Gliding and soaring with motorless aircraft explained: how sailplanes are launched and flown. Date: circa 1930s

A popular new sport, the glider, by G. H. Davis
The coming vogue of the glider. A popular German sport -- motorless flight -- about to start in England. Flying for men of moderate means: the motorless aeroplane -- catapult launching

Deerstalking above Loch Ettive, Argyllshire
Deerstalking in the forest of the Black Mount, Argyllshire: above Loch Ettive - a bad miss after a long stalk. Date: 1891

Lowell (Punch)
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL American poet, essayist and diplomat, depicted as a soaring eagle. Date: 1819 - 1891

Objects used in soaring tests. Hargrave Slide 54

Objects used in soaring experiments. Hargrave Slide 49

Method of testing objects for soaring without damage by striking the ground. Hargrave Slide 42

Soaring experiments. Hargrave Slide 44

Side view from below of Orville soaring in level flight, spectators looking up at glider; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1911 Oct

1901 glider soaring, photograph from an out of focus, water-damaged negative. Original negative is blurred. Date 1901

W. G. Grace as a Giant Bat
The Leviathan Bat..or many-centuried marvel of the Modern (Cricket) World, in his high-soaring, top-scoring, Summer-day flight. How he smites and thumps..!

Nikolai Zhukovsky
NIKOLAI ZHUKOVSKY Russian engineer, known as the father of Russian aviation. His The soaring of birds proved that looping the loop would be possible

British Sailor C1855
The British tar is a soaring soul

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