Aircraft Collection (#11)

Westland Wyvern TF-2
Royal-Navy Rn Westland Wyvern Tf-2 Flying over the Sea As Flown by Test-Pilot Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, Cbe, Dsc, Afc, Fraes, Rn (Born 21 January 1919) Former Royal-Navy Officer Date: 1950s

Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude
A Japan - Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude Parked Date: 1940s

Mitsubishi A5M Claude
A Japan - Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M Claude Parked Date: 1940s

Vought XF5U-1 Flying Pancake
Vought Xf5U-1 Flying Pancake Unusual Design Parked Flying Flapjack Date: 1948

Pobjoy Cataract seven-cylinder radial engine

Public warning, German and British aircraft, WW1
Public warning and information sheet, German and British aircraft during the First World War. 1914-1918

RAF Harrier Jump Jets, No. 1 Squadron, set up in 1969. The jump jet is a vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft. Seen here are staff at work in a control tower

WW2 poster, Teamwork -- Thanks Pal! Printed by DeHavilland of Canada Ltd for distribution in England. Date: circa 1942

Miles Monitor -another, even more expensive dedicted target tug from the Miles stable

Klemm Kl 35 -over 1, 300 of these basic trainers were delivered to the Luftwaffe from late 1937 to 1943

Rene Paul Fonck, leading French fighter ace
Rene Paul Fonck (1894-1953), leading French fighter ace and his SPADs VII, which he flew as a member of the Escadrille SPA 103, part of the famous Groupe de Chasse 12, the Storks

Henschel Hs 126 -the Luftwaffes standard tactical reconnaissance airtcraft

Focke Wulf Ta 154 -too late to be encountered in any numbers, this was one of Germanys last night fighters

Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless -the stalwart US Navy carrier -going dive bomber served throughout the Pacific War, sinking most of Japans aircraft carriers

Douglas C-47 G-AKGX Cyprus Airways Beirut 1955
Douglas C-47 G-AKGXCurion of Cyprus Airways at Beirut, Lebanon on 21 November 1955 Date: 1955

WW2 birthday card with plane. Date: circa 1942

Boeing Stratocruiser G-AKGK BOAC, London Airport
The instantly recognisable fuselage shape of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Canopus was one of the more famous BOAC Stratocruisers operating on the between 1950 and 1959

Poster, aviation meeting in Nice, France
Poster advertising an aviation meeting in Nice, France, 10-25 April 1910. Design by Charles-Leonce Brosse (alias Bsor, Bzor). Date: 1910

RAFs new gyro gun sight by G. H. Davis
Details of the RAFs new gyro gun sight, which makes every fighter pilot an accurate marksman. By means of two simple adjustments in action

Saab J35A Draken

Gordon M. McCoombe, OBE, CEng, MIMechE, FRAeS, President?
Gordon M. McCoombe, OBE, CEng, MIMechE, FRAeS, President of SLAET, 1986, RAeS President 1991-1992

Westland Wessex 52 helicopters for the Iraqi Air Force

Hawker Siddeley Harrier T2, XW270

Super Constellation 145925 Project Magnet UFO Investigation
A very rare photograph of a modified Super Constellation 145925, fitted with highly sensistive magnetometers. The aircraft was part of the TOP SECRET Project Magnet - a UFO Investigation run by

Aerial view of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Aerial view of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Date: c. 1919

British Hovercraft Corporation BH7 Mk2, 12 April 1972, on its return to HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent, after nine weeks of trials in the Baltic Sea. Date: 1972

Rolls-Royce Clyde powered prototype Westland Wyvern TF2, VP120, during thrust measuring trials at Yeovil

Westland Welkin I, DX318

Short Sturgeon TT2 aboard an aircraft carrier

The first prototype de Havilland Canada DHC2 Beaver, CF-FHB-X, fitted with a ski undercarriage

Von Baumhauer Helicopter of 1925. Date: 1925

Short S23 Empire flying boat, AX659, after conversion to military use, taxying on Belfast Lough in April 1941. This aircraft was formerly G-AETY, Clio

USS Utah (BB-31) off Cowes

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar of the USAF

Hawker Fury of the Pakistan Air Force

Hunting P56 Provost T51, 177, of the Irish Air Corps

Boeing SM-80 Minuteman ICBM is launched on a test flight from Cape Canaveral on 19 May 1961. The rocket had to be destroyed after it veered off course following second stage ignition

Cross-sectional drawing of the Rolls-Royce RB211 three-shaft turbofan for the Lockheed TriStar. September 1968

Westland SRN6, SR-N6-150, of Hovertravel, leaving the Southsea Terminal en route to Ryde, Isle of Wight

Lt Gen James Doolittle and Grp Capt Douglas Bader with the Air AttachÚá┤o the British Embassy in Madrid and the Colonel-in-Charge of the Barajas Airport on their arrival in Madrid

Boeing 747-236B G-BDXC of British Airways
Boeing 747-236B, G-BDXC, of British Airways, powered by four Rolls-Royce RB211s

Ricci R6 Triplane at an exhibition

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-AETV Coriolanu
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-AETV, Coriolanus, which became VH-ABG in Qantas service

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADVE Centurion
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADVE, Centurion

Four Australian-built RaF Dassault Mirage III-Os
Four Australian-built, RaF Dassault Mirage III-Os, including A3-24 and A3-39

Australian-built Dassault Mirage III-O A3-23 of the RaF
Australian-built Dassault Mirage III-O, A3-23, of the RaF, landing at Avalon

The Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 landed at Hanworth Aero Park
The Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127, landed at Hanworth Aero Park from Germany, 18 August 1931. Date: 1931

American and British members of the Air Transport Auxiliary in front of a Hawker Hurricane. From left: Virginia Farr, New Jersey; Louise Dutch Schuuman, New York; Helen Ritchie

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