Aeronautics Collection (page 10)

The Conference Department team, October 1997. From left?
The Conference Department team, October 1997. From left: Maria Aprilante, Deputy Conference Manager; Sue Leverton, Conference Officer, Gail Broadbent, Senior Conference Officer and Julia Goss

Hawker Horsley, J7989

Hawker Horsley, J8001

British Aerospace ATP freighter, SE-LGZ, of West Air Sweden

The first prototype Hawker Horsley, J7511

Two British Aerospace ATPs, G-OBWL and G-OBWM, of British World Airlines

Hawker Danecock

An artist?s impression of the US Air Force variant of t?
An artist?s impression of the US Air Force variant of the McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition

An artist?s impression of the three variants of the McD?
An artist?s impression of the three variants of the McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition

An artist?s impression of a McDonnell Douglas ASTOVL study c1993. Date: circa 1993

British Aerospace Future Offensive Aircraft (FOA) study
An artist?s impression of a British Aerospace Future Offensive Aircraft (FOA) study

An artist?s impression of the US Marine Corps variant o?
An artist?s impression of the US Marine Corps variant of the McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition

An artist?s impression of the US Navy variant of the Mc?
An artist?s impression of the US Navy variant of the McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition

Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel ?
Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel blades, left, now being fitted onto the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, is compared with the previous blade used on the aircraft

Test pilot Gerard Demunk - front of Curtiss-Wright propeller
Test pilot Gerard Demunk stands in front of a Curtiss-Wright propeller with wider hollow steel blades, fitted to a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, on the front of a tandem bicycle

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in?
Henry Farman, 1874-1958, left, and Ernest Archdeacon in the Voisin-Farman Ibis on 30 May 1908 at Ghent, Belgium. A flight of 1, 242m was made with Archdeacon as passenger. Date: 1908

Henry Farman, 1874-1958, alongside the Voisin-Farman Ibis
Henry Farman, 1874-1958, right, alongside the Voisin-Farman Ibis of 1908. Date: 1908

Henry Farman, 1874-1958 in the Voisin-Farman Ibis in May 1908. Date: 1908

Lieutenant James Harold Doolittle
Lt James Harold Doolittle standing on the float of his Curtiss Schneider Cup Racer

Robert Herbert Whitby in cockpit of Bristol Mk 3A Sycamore
Robert Herbert Whitby, 1917-2015, left, in the cockpit of Bristol Mk 3A Sycamore, G-AMWG, RMA Sir Gawain, of BEA

In one of the plants of the Wright Aeronautical Corpora?
In one of the plants of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 24 Cyclone 18 radial engines of 2, 400hp move down a progressive assembly line towards final test in March 1944. Date: 1944

AID inspection of Napier engine. Inspection after stripping an engine

An artist?s impression of the Boeing entry in the Joint?
An artist?s impression of the Boeing entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition, two aircraft were built as the X-32 to participate in a concept demonstration against the Lockheed Martin X-35

Test house in the Napier factory

Napier fitting shop in 1929. Date: 1929

One of the machine shops in the Napier factory in 1929. Date: 1929

Erection Bay and stands with engines in progressives stages of production

Inspection Dept at the Armstrong Siddeley works
A section of the Inspection Dept at the Armstrong Siddeley works

Henry Farman, 1874-1958

Capt John Theilmann in Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, r?
Capt John Theilmann in Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA, receives a Royal Mail Penant at Peterborough prior to the first helicopter-operated public mail service in the UK on 1 June 1948. Date: 1948

From left: C. C. Walker, Geoffrey de Havilland and Thom(?)
From left: C.C. Walker, Geoffrey de Havilland and Thom(?)

The one-piece wing is lowered into place on the Boing X?
The one-piece wing is lowered into place on the Boeing X-32A Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator at Boeing?s Palmdale, California, plant, c1999. Date: circa 1999

Hawker Hedgehog, N187 with modified undercarriage and enlarged centresection fuel tank

Hawker Hornbill, J7782, in its original form

Hawker Hedgehog, N187 in 1924 in its initial form

The sole Hawker Duiker, J6918

Hawker Horsley, J8024

Hawker Horsley, J7721

Hawker Horsley, J798?

Sikorsky S-55, G-AMHK, registered to Westland in January 195
Sikorsky S-55, G-AMHK, was registered to Westland in January 1951 for use as a demonstrator

Sikorsky S-55 in Korea

Sikorsky S-55, F-WGIZ

Sikorsky S-55, 92012

Gloster test pilots: Beamont, Stanbury, Greenwood and Preedy
Gloster test pilots, from left: Roland Beamont, Phillip J. Stanbury, Eric Stanley Greenwood and Cotes Preedy

Sqn Ldr Bill Waterton alongside a Gloster Meteor

Flight Lieutenant W. S. Coates and J. A. Rogers - test pilots
From left: Flt Lt W.S. Coates and J.A. Rogers, test pilots at General Aircraft Ltd

Test pilots - Summers, Lucas, Bulman and Hindmarsh
Hawker test pilots: From left: F. Summers, P.G. Lucas, P.W.S. Bulman and John Hindmarsh

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