Aviation Collection (page 7)

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

Gertrude Bells Aeroplane & Arrival

Commander Samson with other British airmen, 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

The British Army Airship Beta and Hangar
The British Army Airship " Beta" and hangar. Served in northern France during the First World War. She had a 45-50 Clerget engine, a speed of 35 mph and a crew of three

Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight
Magazine cover of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Automobilia and Flight, Special Aviation Number. Depicting a battle at sea, with battleships, a submarine and aircraft. February 1909

Maxim-Dunne glider
The Maxim-Dunne glider at Crystal Palace 1904 Date: 1904

Front cover from The Bystander 1936
A colourful cover of an aeroplane flying over the coast. As aviation increased during the 1930s, the Bystander published a Flying Number each year

A Floating Flying Field
A fleet of Blackburn Darts aeroplanes take off from an aircraft carrier in the middle of the sea. Date: 1932

Knights of the Air - WWI aerial combat - Albert Ball
A British fighter plane in the Royal Flying Corps is attacked by two German aircraft. The illustration accompanies a feature inside The Modern Boy magazine by Captain W. E

Programme cover, C W A Scotts First Flying For All Display, Official Programme, price sixpence. 1935

Stewart, James, Pilot as Col in USaF -began combat flying with 453rd Bomb Group, 31 March 1944

Sopwith Baby for the Royal Navy was developed from the Sopwiths 1913 Schneider Trophy winner

Short SC5 Belfast -Heavy Lift

Short S45 Solent 4 of TEAL (forward view) aloft

Mann Egerton H1, aft, (on the ground)

Douglas DC-8 63 -KLM

Goodyear K-Type -these so called blimps though slow were faster than U-Boats Used to escort Atlantic convoys

De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide -Aero OY later Finnair

Consolidated B-24H & J formation of 2nd Bomb Division, US 8th Air Force, 24 Nov 1944

Avro 679 Manchester IA with its seven man crew about to board

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows Diamond Bend Finningley
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks flying the Diamond Bend at RAF Finningley in 1983 Date: 1983

Duelling in cloudland, aerial fighting 1917
Clouds play no mean part in aerial fighting. The hard-pressed biplanes will use them for cover, the chaser will hide in them with the hope of catching an unwary foe, unpleasantly near

Vance Mailplane (side view) in hangar of NR-12700

Girls waving at an early Aviator flying overhead
The Aviator is the only man girls look up to A very beautifully drawn and interesting postcard, with strong leaning toward the Womens Suffrage movement during this period in the United Kingdom

The 100th Scottish Aviation Bulldog G-RADB
The 100th Scottish Aviation Bulldog, G-RADB, is the 78th Bulldog for the Royal Swedish Air Force

The second prototype Scottish Aviation Bulldog G-AXIG
The second prototype Scottish Aviation Bulldog, G-AXIG, in Swedish military colours

Mr Morrison and his aeroplane on Hove Lawns, Brighton

The Flying Prince by Johns
HRH the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor) piloting his new Puss Moth monoplane. Date: 1930

Sir Eric Geddes
Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB, GBE, PC (26 September 1875 - 22 June 1937), British businessman and Conservative politician

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