Airmen Collection (page 2)

New uniform of the Royal Air Force, 1918
Illustration in The Sphere showing the uniform of the newly formed RAF. The uniforms for officers and mechanics were to be of khaki cloth with brass or black buttons

Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes

Book cover design, With the Airmen

National League of Airmen Poster
Poster, National League of Airmen, formed to promote Britains air security. This Concerns You, Enrol Now. 20th century

British forces colleagues at Scapa Flow, WW2. 1943

Poster, Second International Aircraft Exhibition, Milan
Poster, Visit the Second International Aircraft Exhibition, Milan Sports Palace, 2-17 October 1937. 1937

Old Maid card - Airman. circa 1940s

Rescue Rafts
German rafts in the English Channel give downed airmen a hope of survival, so long as they come down near one Date: March 1941

Adastra advertisement - clothing for airmen and airwomen
Advert for Adastra clothing, suitable for pilots and passengers in 1919, at a time when the removal of flying restrictions after the war saw an upsurge in the number of people flying

Royal Naval Air Service in Great War Deeds, WW1
Flight Commander Hewlett of the Royal Naval Air Service (before the RAF was formed) almost colliding with a mast of a German warship during the air raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914

WW1 - Commodore Bigsworth drops bombs on zeppelin, 1915
WW1 - Air Commodore Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth (1885-1961) was a pioneer aviator who had a distinguished military career in the service of the British armed forces

WW1 - News of an air raid, 1917
WW1 - Drawn by an observer is a scene of a British air station in England as the air force are in preparation after news of an air raid

WW1 - Air Patrol - The Night Hawk, 1917
WW1 - Air force and mechanics at sea-shore preparing a British sea-plane, The Night Hawk, for flight. Date: 1917

WW1 - French and German aerial battle, 1916
WW1 - French and German aeroplanes in an aerial battle. The French in quick-firing gun action using the built in machine gun at the nose of the battle-plane to attack their enemy

WW1 - Close encounter between aeroplane and balloon
WW1 - A depiction of a close aeronautic encounter between a aeroplane and balloon hidden from each other in the cloudy sky

WW1 - A scene at night on a British airfield
WW1 - A scene at a British flying-ground on the night of an air raid. Lit up by surrounding lights, the airmen and mechanics prepare the two aircrafts for the midnight call. Date: 1916

WW1 - French airborne chivilary, 1915
WW1 - Two French pilots seated in their aircraft called Lorraine as it prepares to set off to pay tribute to one of their dead comrades

WW1 - Russian reconnaissance plane, 1915
WW1 - A Russian airfield covered in snow with Russian sky-pilots seated in their aircraft. Surrounded by their fellow airmen

WW1 - German airmen in combat
WW1 - A drawing from a German artist for a German newspaper who witnessed the airmen in a battle royal in mid-air. The two German officers in a biplane attack the French captive balloon shown below

WW1 - British bomber squadron with Avro 504s
WW1 - Three Avro 504 British biplanes and the British bomber squadron on the ground preparing to carry out an aerial attack in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Commander Briggs biplane, No

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

WW1 - Crashed British Aircraft
WW1 - A Brtish aeroplane after an accident within British lines. Airmen at the landmark surround the aircraft, observing and assessing the accident. Date: 1914

The courtesies of the air, WW1
The courtesies of the air: how the airmen fight. Showing British war biplanes parked in a wide meadow (top), British and Belgian aviators (bottom left), and a group of German aviators (bottom right)

WW2 Christmas card, Good Cheer -- a sailor, an airman and a soldier queue up for a welcome cup of tea at the NaFI. Date: 1941

Sphere cover - Clearing away wreckage at Cuffley, WW1
A scene at Cuffley, Hertfordshire after the German L-21 airship had fallen to earth in a ball of flames, having been shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson VC on the night of 2 September 1916

Saluting the Vanquished Foe, WW1 in the air by C Clark
A German monoplane, forced to descend with the British lines on the Western front. The plane was forced to alight owing to the tactics of the British aviators in the neighbourhood where the aerial

Group of Brazilian airmen, 1918
" Our powerful ally in South America: a group of the Brazilian airmen who have arrived in England for special training, " as the Illustrated London News describes it

An Indian soldier pays homage to British airmens grave
An Indian soldier pays homage to the memorial of two British airmen who died whilst on active service in Mesopotamia. The propeller-blade was mounted over the grave by the Turks while occupying

Bolling Air Force Base, Washington DC, USA
Entertaining orphan boys on a DCFD fire department truck at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington DC, on Fathers Day, 18 June 1950. Date: 1950

Royal Flying Corps airmen attack a German monoplane, 1914
British army airmen of the Royal Flying Corps attacking a German monoplane in 1914. The pilot is seated behind the observer in the British biplane; the observer repels attack and fires on the enemy

Burberry carapace air suit, WW1
Advertisement for the Carapace air-suit from Burberrys of Haymarket, sheath armour for knights of the air, - ventilated, reinforced, lined and covered in densely woven gabardine. Date: 1918

British Airmen, WW1
British airmen from the Royal Flying Corps, First World War. From left to right, Lietenant Playfair, Lieutenant Mills, Lieutenant Soames, Captain Board, Major Riley, Major Higgins, Lieutenant Jones

Tatler front cover featuring Captain Guynemer, 1917
Georges-Marie Guynemer (1894 - 1917), French military aviator, credited with the destruction of 53 enemy planes, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler

Commander and Mrs C. R. Samson, WW1
Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 5 February 1931), British naval aviation pioneer. He was one of the first four officers selected for pilot training by the Royal

Anthony Wilding at an aerodrome in France, 1915
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured at an aerodrome somewhere in France in 1915 with from left

Captain Liddell V. C. WW1
Captain John Aidan Liddell of 3rd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Royal Flying Corps who won the Victoria Cross after safely flying

British airmen arming a plane with bombs, WW1
British airmen arming a plane with bombs, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

British airmen planning attack, Western Front, WW1
British airmen belonging to a daytime bombing squadron, planning their attack on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Newly captured German aircraft, Western Front, WW1
British airmen with a newly captured German aircraft at a Flying Corps depot on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Inflatable German dinghy by G. H. Davis
Saving the Luftwaffe: an inflatable dinghy for defeated German airmen. It was carried by the larger German aircraft during the Second World War

Aerial map-making by G. H. Davis
A revolution in aerial map making during the Second World War: perspective maps for airmen. Used as an aid to air navigators and air bombers in precision bombing. Date: 1943

Making sea water drinkable by G. H. Davis
Making sea water drinkable: a simple system for castaway airmen during the Second World War. A life-saving apparatus, compact and very simple to use

Saved by parachute from a burning plane
An airman is saved by his parachute from a burning plane which plummets to the ground. Date: 1928

Two airmen in French bomber, WW1
Two airmen in a French bomber biplane during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

French aeroplane with hand bombs, WW1
Two airmen in a French aeroplane, with hand bombs ready to be dropped over enemy territory during the First World War. Date: August 1914

Two airmen standing in front of plane
Two airmen in goggles standing in front of a large biplane

Fencing Airmen
Royal Air Force cadets watching a bout of fencing at the School of Physical Training at Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. Date: 27 June 1933

Buy War Bonds and Stamps - USA - WW2
Patriotic Postcard from Alantic Cuty ( proud to become a part of the US Army Air Force ) encouraging the American populace to purchase War bonds

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