Airplane Collection (page 17)

Hawker Siddeley Andover C1, XS639, at Middle Wallop

de Havilland Canada DHC1 Chipmunk, CF-DJF-X

Short S14 Sarafand, S1589

Submarines against the Japanese, 1944
A double page spread in The Sphere, 1944, entitled " Submarines against the Japs: British underwater craft operating in the Far East." On the left hand page

Zeppelin-Lindau Rs II German long range flying boat, seen here in its initial form with biplane tail. It first flew in June 1916, after which modifications were made

SPAD A II (forward view, on the ground) ofs 16

Trenchard, Hugh Montague Boom, pilot and Father of RFC and RAF

Sikorsky S-38 of Inter Island

Sopwith 2F1 Camel -seven aboard HMS Furious in build

Short S35 Shetland II, Sept 47
Short S.35 Shetland II. First flown 14 December 1944, only two built -the first as a Sunderland successor, the second as a 70 passenger flying boat. Date: circa 1947

Short S29 Stirling I of No 7 Squadron, flying

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt being serviced in a rural Essex setting

Reitsch, Hannah, test pilot in sailplane, 19 May 37

North American P-51B of 99th Fighter Tuskegee Squadron, 15th Air Force, USaF in Italy, cSept 1944

Lockheed L1049 Constellation Trans Canada, flying

Junkers Ju 87B -developed specifically as a dive bomber, it was effective as long as it flew with friendly fighter cover

Ilyushin IL-76TD 90VD of Volga Dnepr - PR 061113

Gloster E 2839 -Britains first jet aircraft that took to the air for the first time in May 1941

De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, 1st flight 17 April 3
De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide first flown 17 April 1934. Of wooden construction carried 8 passsengers, cruising at 132mph. 734 built, more than half as wartime trainers

Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk IV -these progressively replaced the interim Boomerang with Australian fighter squadrons serving in the Pacific

Boeing 747 Supertanker conversion by Evergreen Aviuation - PR 130605

Boeing 707-338C - Qantas

Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan of Volga Dnepr landing - PR 280813

Avro 685 York-shown is the first civilianised York delivered to British Overseas Airways Corporation in February 1944

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

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

The prototype Avro 638 Club Cadet, G-ACAY

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

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