Aviation Collection (page 6)

Sketch cover featuring Amelia Earhart by Olive Snell
Portrait of pioneering American aviator, Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) by society portraitist Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. Date: 1928

Hubert Lathams Antoinette in Blackpool 1909
Hubert Lathams Antoinette monoplane in Blackpool, England. Taking part in the first officially recognised aviation meeting to be held in Britain, the Blackpool Flying Week

The first Scottish Aviation Pioneer, VL515, was re-engin?
The first Scottish Aviation Pioneer, VL515, was re-engined with a 520hp Alvis Leonides radial to become the first Pioneer II, G-AKBF

Scottish Aviation Bulldog production

Cover design, Blackpool Aviation Week
Cover design, souvenir programme for Blackpool Aviation Week, 18-24 October 1909. Showing a gold aircraft on a white and black background. October 1909

Cover design, Aeronautics magazine
Cover design, Aeronautics Magazine, formerly Popular Aviation, showing an elegant woman sitting on the edge of a cockpit. June 1929

Heinkel He176
First rocket drive on Heinkel He176 aircraft, 1936 Date: 1936

P-51 Mustang fighter in flight, Inglewood, Calif. The Mustang, built by North American Aviation, Incorporated, is the only American-built fighter used by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain

Sir Alan Cobham (1894 - 1973), English aviation pioneer. In the 1930s, when this photograph was taken (with his wife?), he pioneered inflight refuelling. Date: 1930s

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Construction of Concorde
Engineers and fitters work on a section of one of the wings of the first prototype Concorde, 001, at the St. Martin, Toulouse, plant of Sud-Aviation, France. Date: 1967

Concorde Construction
The first prototype Concorde, 001, taking shape at the St. Martin Sud-Aviation factory Toulouse, France. Date: 1967

Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor with the airmail
The aviator Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor from Hendon on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor

Gustav Hamels plane ready to leave Hendon for Windsor
Gustav Hamels aeroplane ready to leave Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

French Air Force Poster
Poster advertising for pilots to join the French Air Force from the age of 17 years

Ant. Saint-Exupery
SAINT-EXUPERY SAINT-EXUPERY French aviator and writer. Author of novels and essays, most with an aviation theme

Sir George Cayley
sir GEORGE CAYLEY aviation pioneer

Arthur Whitten Brown
Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, he was the navigator of the first direct transatlantic flight in June 1919 piloted by Captain John Alcock

North American P-51D Mustang N7710C
North American P-51D-20-NA Mustang N7710C (msn 122-31615, ex 44-63889), owned by Dan Furtrell. Date: circa 1971

Gloster Meteor T. 7 WA669 27
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor T.7 WA669 27, of the Central flying School, at RAF Little Rissington, on 1 August 1970. (RAF Little Rissington is the highest active airfield in the British Isles)

GAF N-22S Searchmaster L VH-HTG
Government Aircraft Factories N-22S Searchmaster L VH-HTG (msn N22S-160). Date: circa 1988

Cessna 550 Citation II HZ-a1 (msn 550-0116), of the Arabian International Services Company, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1981

Government Aircraft Factories N. 22B Nomad VH-UVE
Government Aircraft Factories (GAF) N.22B Nomad VH-UVE (msn N22B-133, RTAF - 46121), of the Royal Thai Air Force, before delivery. Date: 1982

Sikorsky S-61N G-BAKC (msn 61-703), of Bristow Helicopters at Redhill Aerodrome. Date: circa 1980

Fleet 80 Canuck CF-ENO (msn 187) Date: circa 1965

Avro Shackleton MR. 2
Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton MR.2, of No.8 Squadron, used as a flight crew trainer for the Shackleton Airborne Early Warning aircraft. Date: circa 1979

Dassault Falcon 50 N96CE (msn 139), of Whirlpool Leasing Services Inc. at Luton Airport in July 1987 Date: 1987

Hampden Bomber Hampden Bomber
Hampden Bomber - Twin engine Handley Page long range Aircraft. Bristol Pegasus 1, 000 H.P. engines. 265mph. Range - 1, 725 miles. Date: circa 1940s

Advert, Rolls-Royce, Vickers Vimy biplane
Advert for Rolls-Royce, 25th anniversary of a Vickers Vimy biplane with Rolls-Royce engines, first direct Atlantic crossing by air, June 1919. 1944

Convair CV-240-27 N95 (msn 331, ex ET-29C 52-1092), of the Federal Aviation Administration flying unit, at the 1975 International Air Tattoo, RAF Greenham Common

North American P-51D Mustang N9149R in late 1960sDelivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-74441 Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as 9593.- BOC: November 8, 1950.- SOC: October 15

Thunderbirds number 1 - North American F-100C Super Sabre
United States Air Force Thunderbirds number 1 - North American F-100C-10-NH Super Sabre 55-2723, piloted by Major Bob Fitzgerald. Date: circa 1960

Virginia Air National Guard - Republic F-105D Thunderchief
Virginia Air National Guard - Republic F-105D-31-RE Thunderchief 62-4353 (msn D552). Date: 1970s

Tennessee Air National Guard - Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker O-53-0315 (msn 17097) Built as a KC-97G-29-BO, then to KC-97G-145-BO and converted to KC-97L. Date: 1960s

Lockheed JetStar N1 of the Federal Aviation Administration flying unit, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1980

Royal Air Force - Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C. 1 XN857
Royal Air Force - Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1 XN857, of RAF Transport Command at the 1964 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. Date: 1964

No. 2 Squadron, Canadian Air Force
Canadian Air Force - The assembled men and machines of No. 2 Squadron Canadian Air Force (1918-1920), probably at Shoreham aerodrome (or, less likely, Upper Heyford)

British Overseas Airways Corporation Lockheed 18-08 Lodestar G-AGDD Loch Losna (msn 2087, ex NX34901, to Royal Norwegian Air Force July 1945 as 2087)

Royal Air Force Percival P. 56 Provost T. 1 XF912
Royal Air Force Percival P.56 Provost T.1 XF912 (msn PAC/56/421), delivered on the 27 March 1956 and scrapped during 1962 at No.71 MU RAF Bicester. Date: circa 1959

de Havilland DH. 104 Dove 6 G-ANUU
de Havilland DH.104 Dove 6 G-ANUU (msn 04455) of the Civil Aviation Flying Unit. G-ANUU flew with the Board of Trade - Department of Trade

British Airways B757 - G-BIKU
British Airways Boeing 757-236 - G-BIKU Date: 1986

Blackhawk at Fairford
Sikorsky UH-60A Blackhawk 88-26072 from A Coy, 7-227th Avn Bn, United States Army, at the 1993 Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 21 to 27 July 1993. Date: 1993

Hercules at Sunset ? RAF Stanley
A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hercules C.1P taking-off into the sunset at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands October 1984 Date: 1984

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

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