Flight Collection (page 19)

WW2 poster, The Fairey Fulmer, the Navys fastest fighter. Date: 1940

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

Aerial photography by G. H. Davis
Aerial photography by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of the RAF: details of cameras and methods in use during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Schneider contest nerve centre by G. H. Davis
The Schneider contest nerve centre: timing at over 300 mph. How the amazing speeds of the seaplanes were recorded: the timekeepers and their work on Ryde Pier. Date: 1929

Norman Cyril Jackson, V. C winner
Warrant Officer Norman Cyril Jackson(1919-1994), Victoria Cross winner, as he appeared in the Illustrated London News, 1945

Boarding a Boac 707
Passengers boarding a BOAC 707 aeroplane at Piarco Airport. Trinidad, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

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

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

The first flight of the Sikorsky VS-300 14 September 1939
The first flight of the Sikorsky VS-300, 14 September 1939. Igor Sikorsky is at the controls. Date: 1939

The second de Havilland DH88 Comet G-ACSR ready for flight
The second de Havilland DH88 Comet, G-ACSR, ready for flight test just before dark following the pre-race accident

Griffith Brewer and Wilbur Wright after the flight at Camp dAuvours, 8 October 1908. Later that same day Wilbur took Hon C.S. Rolls, Frank Hedges Butler and Major B.F.S

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, later Lord Brabazon of Tara, 1884-1964, makes the first official air freight flight in 1909

The famous photo of the first flight of the Wright Flyer flying at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at 10.35am on 17 December 1903 taken by John T. Daniels. Wilbur Wright stands on the right. Date: 1903

Boeing B-29A-5 Superfortress 293844 in flight
Boeing B-29A-5 Superfortress, 293844, in flight

Blackburn B-46 Firebrand TF4 in flight

Plecotus sp. long-eared bat
A long-eared bat in flight (a microbat belonging to the Vespertilionidae family of vesper or evening bats). Photograph published in Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002

Mr Greens 100th balloon ascent from the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, London. 14 May 1832

Cover design, International Exhibition, Brussels
Cover design, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles (Universal and International Exhibition, Brussels), with international airship competitions

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

Felix Nadar, half-length portrait, standing in the basket of a balloon, holding binoculars. Date 1897

La daguerreotypomanie. French cartoon about the rush to try photography after Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre revealed his process in 1839

Kitty Hawk Bay viewed from the Wright brothers 1900 camp. Date 1900

Belgian Air Force 2
Willy Coppens de Houthuist (born 1892) fights in World War One, specialising in shooting down German observation balloons, of which he destroys 35 ! Date: 1916+

De Havilland Comet 1956
The Comet is the first commercial jet-liner, carrying 36 passengers at 800 km/h, half as fast again as any other airliner currently in commercial service

AVRO TUTOR
The 621 biplane is the standard training aircraft of the pre- WW2 RAF, a user- friendly and versatile biplane well known for its ability to fly upside-down on request

Spitfire with Floats
A sketch of the successful Royal Airforce fighter plane converted for landing on water

Plane Spotters
Silhouettes of two plane spotters at London Gatwick Airport, England

Caravelle Jets
Three Societa Aerea Mediterranea Caravelle Jets being refuelled at London Gatwick Airport

Toad Rides Skeleton
A toad - a witches familiar - rides to the sabbat mounted on an animal skeleton

First Manned Balloon
The hot air Montgolfiere carrying de Rozier and d Arlandes, makes the worlds first manned ascent, over Paris

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan
Hoisting Gloster Sparrowhawk from Battleship Turret. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965)

Wright Flyer
Rudder of Alec Ogilvies Wright Flyer When the Handle of the Control Lever is Turned over As Shown Date: 1911

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)

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