Aeronautics Collection (page 6)

Jean Zeller, a visitor to the Plant Maintenance and Eng?
Jean Zeller, a visitor to the Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show in Philadelphia?s Convention Hall, studies a model of a proposed Moon base, circa 1960. Date: circa 1960

William Oke Manning (1879-1958), designer, and Sqn Ldr ?
William Oke Manning (1879-1958), designer, and Sqn Ldr Maurice E.A. Wright, pilot, on the day of the first flight of English Electric S1 Wren J6973, Ashton Park, Preston, Lancs, 5 April 1923

HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands

Prince George, Duke of Kent - Group Captain in the RAF
Prince George, Duke of Kent, right, shortly after becoming a Group Captain in the RAF with Gp Capt Ellwood, 27 May 1940. Date: 1940

HM King George VI (in RAF uniform) leaves a de Havilland Flamingo transport during an aircraft factory inspection, 15 August 1940. Date: 1940

HM King George VI in RAF uniform

Edward Henry Heinemann - Chief Engineer, Douglas Aircraft
Edward Henry Heinemann, 1908-1991, Chief Engineer, Douglas Aircraft, and, later, Corporate Vice President of Engineering, General Dynamics

Miss Winifred Brown - winner King?s Cup Air Race
Miss Winifred Brown won the King?s Cup Air Race on 5 July 1930 in Avro Avian III, G-EBVZ. Date: 1930

Sir James McKechnie, 1856-1931, KBE, Vickers Ltd

From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Sco?
From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter during training at Langley Field, Virginia, for their forthcoming Mercury space flights, 11 January 1961. Date: 1961

Marshal Italo Balbo (1896-1940) in America in 1933 shortly after leading the ?Italian Air Armada?

Sikorsky S-55, 93015

Entries - Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition
An artist?s impression of the McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and British Aerospace entry in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition c1996. Date: circa 1996

Pilot and 40 passengers after a flight at 6, 500ft in a ?
Pilot and 40 passengers after a flight at 6, 500ft in a Handley Page aeroplane. Cricklewood Aerodrome, 15 November 1918. The pilot, in flying kit, is Mr Prodger and Mr Handley Page is to his left

Robert Herbert Whitby with Jack Caulson alongside Bell 47
Robert Herbert Whitby, 1917-2015, left, with Jack Caulson alongside a Bell 47, circa 1955. Date: circa 1955

The Boeing X-32A Joint Strike Fighter Concept Demonstrator
The Boeing X-32A Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator at Boeing?s Palmdale, California, plant, June 1999. Date: 1999

Fibre placement - inlet - Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter
Fibre placement on the inlet duct of the Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator

Hawker Tomtit, J9777

Sikorsky S-55, OO-SHA, of Sabena, at Lille heliport

Geoffrey Haig Pike, test pilot, de Havilland, alongside a de Havilland Vampire

Robin Lindsay Neale, Chief Test Pilot, Boulton Paul Aircraft, alongside the Boulton Paul P108

Brothers Maurice, left, and Joseph ?Mutt? Summers, Vick?
Brothers Maurice, left, and Joseph ?Mutt? Summers, Vickers test pilots, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Sikorsky S-55, WW339, formerly G-AMHK, was registered to Westland in January 1951 for use as a demonstrator

British Aerospace Jetstream ATP, G-JATP

Hawker Siddeley HS748 Series 2A, AMDB-110, of Askar Melayu Diraja Brunei

Fokker FXVIII, PH-AIP, Pelikaan, of KLM which in Decemb?
Fokker FXVIII, PH-AIP, Pelikaan, of KLM which in December 1933 flew a special Christmas mail flight to Batavia, completing the round trip in a flight time of 73 hours 34 minutes. Date: 1933

Bendix Model J Whirlaway, NX74101

Sikorsky S-52 or H-18, NC92823

Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note?
Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note the bent axle which was damaged by excessive upward pressure on the antilift rails used to prevent the aeroplane leaving the ground

Armstrong Whitworth FK3, 5519, second production batch
Armstrong Whitworth FK3, 5519, from the second production batch

Pemberton-Billing PB25, 9001

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

United States Navy - Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat 42874, NACA 158, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Moffett Naval Air Station

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon and Major Baden-Powell
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, left, and Major Baden-Powell at the Crystal Palace gliding chute, 13 June 1904. Date: 1904

From left: Alan Shepard Jr and John Glenn Jr in the Mer?
From left: Alan Shepard Jr and John Glenn Jr in the Mercury control center on 18 July 1961 prior the sub-orbital flight of Virgil Grissom on 21 July. Date: 1961

Boulton Paul group at Mousehold Aerodrome in 1933. From?
Boulton Paul group at Mousehold Aerodrome in 1933. From left: Major Jack Stewart, OBE; Capt J. Dawson Paul, John Carter, J.D. North and Sqn Ldr C.A. Rea, AFC. Date: 1933

A replica of Lunik 2 on display at Earls Court in July ?
A replica of Lunik 2 on display at Earls Court in July 1961. On 13 September 1959 Lunik 2 became the first man-made object on another celestial body when it was crashed onto the Moon. Date: 1961

Sir Mark Norman, Managing Director of Britten-Norman Sales, circa 1970. Sir Mark was the brother of company co-founder Desmond Norman. Date: circa 1970

Sqn Ldr Lord Clydesdale, left, the chief pilot of the H?
Sqn Ldr Lord Clydesdale, left, the chief pilot of the Houston-Mount Everest expedition, and Lt-Col L.V.S. Blacker, the chief observer, fully equipped for one of the final tests of the Westland PV3

Alan Marsh and Geoffrey Dorman leaving Cierva Air Horse
Alan Marsh (in cap) and Geoffrey Dorman leaving the Cierva Air Horse

Squadron Leader Eric George Franklin, OBE - Chief Test Pilot
Sqn Ldr Eric George Franklin, OBE, DFC, AFC, Chief Test Pilot Armstrong Whitworth

Lt Cdr Peter Melville Lamb, DSC*, AFC - Chief Test Pilot
Lt Cdr Peter Melville Lamb, DSC*, AFC (1923-2000), Chief Test Pilot, Saunders-Roe, with the SRN1 hovercraft in 1959. Date: 1959

1945 Farnborough Show - de Havilland, Walker, Butler
1945 Farnborough Air Show. From right: Geoffrey de Havilland, C.C. Walker (standing) and Alan Butler. Date: 1945

John Britten and Nigel Desmond Norman in Bembridge
From left: John Britten (?-1977) and Nigel Desmond Norman (1929-2002) in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 1966. Date: 1966

Major Herman Titov & Major Yuri Gagarin, Red Square, Moscow
Major Herman Titov, left, and Major Yuri Gagarin acknowledge the crowds in Red Square on 9 August 1961, during a rally in their honour. Date: 1961

John Glenn and Virgil Grissom pose beside Mercury spacecraft
John Glenn, left, and Virgil Grissom pose beside a boiler-plate relica of a Mercury spacecraft, c.July 1961. Date: 1961

Zodiac two-seat biplane of 1912. Date: 1912

Princess Mary leaving after inspecting the new RAF Hospital and nurses quarters at Halton, Bucks, in 1927. Date: 1927

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