Airplane Collection (page 9)

Boeing Stratocruiser G-AKGH Caledonia of BOAC in flight
Boeing Stratocruiser, G-AKGH, Caledonia, of BOAC. In flight

The first Lockheed Model 1049 Super Constellation N67900
The first Lockheed Model 1049 Super Constellation, N67900, alongside a standard Constellation

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress from above

Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury of the RAF
Handley Page Halifax VI, RG815, Mercury of the RAF Empire Radio School, Debden, prior to its 25, 000-mile tour of Palestine, Iraq, India, Burma, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand in 1946

Saunders Roe SR-45 Princess Flying Boat Making a Low-Level Flypast at the Farnborough Airshow 1952 Date: 1953

RAF Squadron Gloster Meteor Based at Duxford in 1950S

Handley Page HP-80 Victor
RAF Handley Page Hp-80 Victor During Take-Off at Radlett, UK Date: 1953

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

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

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

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

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver -early examples had a tendency to break up during recovery from a dive

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

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

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

Hawker Siddeley Harrier T2, XW270

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

Consolidated Liberator GRV FL927 / G
Consolidated Liberator GRV, FL927/G, fitted with rocket projectile sponsons and a Leigh Light under the starboard wing, under test at the Aircraft and Armaments Experimental Establishment

Westland Wyvern S4 VZ789 on a carrier deck with wings folded
Westland Wyvern S4, VZ789, on a carrier deck with wings folded

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