Aeroplane Collection (#23)

Avro 685 York transport used the Lancasters wings, modified tail unit and engines One used by Winston Churchill as his personal aircraft

Douglas DC-3 G-AGJV Derby Airways Gatwick 1961
Douglas DC-3 G-AGJV operated by Derby Airways at London Gatwick in June 1961 Date: 1961

De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDA starboard engines BOAC LAP 1958
De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDA close up of starboard engines at London Airport in 1958 Date: 1958

Gertrude Bells Aeroplane & Arrival

WW2 poster, The Fairey Fulmer, the Navys fastest fighter. Date: 1940

Aerial photography by G. H. Davis
Aerial photography by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of the RAF: details of cameras and methods in use during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Schneider contest nerve centre by G. H. Davis
The Schneider contest nerve centre: timing at over 300 mph. How the amazing speeds of the seaplanes were recorded: the timekeepers and their work on Ryde Pier. Date: 1929

Boarding a Boac 707
Passengers boarding a BOAC 707 aeroplane at Piarco Airport. Trinidad, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

Gloster AS31, G-aDO, of the Aircraft Operating Company

Lockheed YF-104A-LO Starfighter, 55-2956

SSZ43 at Slindon Mooring-Out Station, Polegate

Douglas RB-66B Destroyer, 53-435

Austin Whippet, G-EAPF

Curtiss H12 Large America, 8671, being warped aboard a t?
Curtiss H12 Large America, 8671, being warped aboard a towing lighter

RNAS Curtiss H12 Large America, 8671

The third prototype Fairey Gannet AS1, WE488

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Retirement party for Jenny Denny, one of two tea / coffee ?
Retirement party for Jenny Denny, one of two tea/coffee ladies at the headquarters of the Royal Aeronautical Society

The Hon Charles Rolls? balloon at Monmouth

Avro 694 Lincoln, probably RE367, Aries III of the Empire Air Navigation School

Mignet HM18

Gold Cup to be awarded to the winner of the speed race of the MacRobertson Air Race from RAF Mildenhall to Melbourne in 1934

Two Short S23 Empire flying boats, G-AETV Coriolanus and G-ADHM Caledonia, with a Sikorsky S42B, NC-16736 Pan American Clipper III, of Pan American Airways at Southampton

Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofans during production at Derby. September 1971

Lilienthal gliding from an artificial hill on 29 June 1895

Bleriot two-seat monoplane with Bentfield Hucks
BlÚ▓®ot two-seat monoplane with Bentfield Hucks in the front cockpit

Captain Bertram Dickson on a Farman biplane

SS14 at Kingsnorth Airship Station on the Isle of Grain, 23 March 1917

Border Flying Club, Carlisle

Haesller-Villinger man-powered aircraft Mufli of 1935-1938. Date: circa 1935

Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, (27 July 1882 21 May 1965) holding a model of the de Havilland Mosquito

Airspeed AS51 Horsa I DG597 the first prototype
Airspeed AS51 Horsa I, DG597, the first prototype

Harry (later Sir Harry) M Garner (1892-1977)
Harry (later Sir Harry) M. Garner (1892-1977), Principal Scientific Officer, MAEE, with RAF officers in front of a Blackburn Iris at Felixstowe in 1931. Date: 1977

Chanute biplane glider

Maurice Farman S7 Longhorn

Maurice Farman S7 Longhorn N5000
Maurice Farman S7 Longhorn, N5000

Curtiss Hawk 75 fuselage interior looking rear from the baggage compartment. 9 May 1938. Date: 1938

The view looking towards the stern of the Graf Zeppelin II, LZ 130, during construction at Friedrichshafen

The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADVE
The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, leaving Southampton with the first Empire Mail for South Africa, 29 June 1937. [See also 56005474] Date: 1937

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park 1892-1975
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, 1892-1975. Date: 1975

Alcock and Brown are presented with the Daily Mail prize of 10, 000 by Winston Churchill

The prototype Supermarine Attacker TS409
The prototype Supermarine Attacker, TS409. February 1948. Date: 1948

The first flight of the Sikorsky VS-300 14 September 1939
The first flight of the Sikorsky VS-300, 14 September 1939. Igor Sikorsky is at the controls. Date: 1939

Albert Batchelor flew in a helicopter from Helston Air Station on 18 February 1959 to celebrate his 90th birthday. Date: 1959

Albert Batchelors BA Swallow 2 G-AERK
Albert Batchelors BA Swallow 2, G-AERK

Albert Batchelor with his British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow G-A
Albert Batchelor with his British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow, G-ACXD

Albert Batchelors Cierva C30A autogyro G-ACWM
Albert Batchelors Cierva C30A autogyro, G-ACWM

Albert and Gladys Batchelor in front of his Cierva C30A autogyro, G-ACWM

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