Flying Collection (page 9)

Beagle A. 61 Terrier G-ASAC Airways Aero Club Rearsby
Auster converted a number of ex- Army aircraft which became the Auster 6B. When the company became part of Beagle Aircraft in 1960 it was renamed the Beagle A.61 Terrier

Bristol Beaufighter TT Mk. 10 RD758, Bahrain
Built as a Beaufighter TF.X (Torpedo Fighter version) RD758 was converted to a TT.X, for target towing Date: 1956

Firefighters in action, Rosebery Avenue, WW2
Firefighters in action in burning debris in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London, following a flying bomb attack. Date: 1944

Pilot (on first job) This war-flying seems easy, but WW1
Pilot (on first job). This war-flying seems easy, but I wish people would not test their guns quite so close. By Lieutenant George Arthur Hyde, MC

Lieutenant and Mrs Vernon Castle, dancers
Vernon Blythe Castle (1887-1918), and American wife, Irene (nee Foote), ballroom dancers, performers and dance teachers, pictured in 1917 when he was serving in the British Army in the Royal Flying

The Flying Scotsman on the London and North Eastern Railway, hauled by a Pacific Locomotive

WW2 - Fit and ready to join the RAF - strong like Father
" We Must Hand it to the RAF" WW2 - Fit and ready to join the RAF - strong like Father! A girl is happy to hand over her boy to the service of the country

Keep em Flying - US Dive Bombing Planes. he planes shown here are all U.S. Navy Douglas SBD (" Scout Bomber Douglas" ) Dauntless aircraft

The start of the England to Australia flight from Hounslow Aerodrome, London, 12 November 1919. In flying clothing (from left) Ross Smith, Keith Smith, Sergeant J.M. (Jim) Bennett and Sergeant W.M

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat after modifications for military service

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADDY Cassiopeia at Southam
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADDY, Cassiopeia, at Southampton prior to flying to Alexandria. January 1937. Date: 1937

Short S16 / 1 Scion II G-ADDN of Southend Flying Services
Short S16/1 Scion II, G-ADDN, of Southend Flying Services

Blackburn Mercury I monoplane flying at Filey in 1911. Date: 1911

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-AETY Clio
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-AETY, Clio, on arrival at Belfast for conversion to a military role for coastal reconnaissance

Rolls-Royce Flying Bedstead was powered by two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets

Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 41-24523 in flight
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, 41-24523, in flight

Walking by steam, riding by steam, flying by steam
Shortshanks: Locomotion: Walking by steam, riding by steam, flying by steam. Coloured engraving circa 1830. Date: circa 1830

Ananas comosus (pineapple) & Philaethria dido
Pineapple tree (Ananas comosus) with butterfly, caterpillar & crysalis (Philaethria dido). Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)

Sterna antillarum, least tern
Plate 319 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Cover design, Railway Air Services timetable in conjunction with Spartan Air Lines Ltd, between London and the Isle of Wight. circa 1936

Brochure design, Cobham Air Routes, serving London, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight, and Guernsey. circa 1935

Poster, Jersey Airways
Poster, I m going by Jersey Airways, showing monkeys, a pig and a puppy rejecting alternative means of transport. Lawson Wood produced an number of posters for Jersey Airways which from its formation

Book cover design, The Cloud King: or up in the air & down in the sea, by W Stephens Hayward, London: Darton and Hodge, 1866. Showing a balloon attached to a whale. 1866

Book cover design, The Romance of Aeronautics: an Interesting Account of the Growth and Achievements of All Kinds of Aerial Craft, by Charles C Turner, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912

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, Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition, 19 to 27 March 1909, at Olympia, west London. Showing three Edwardian people looking up at one of the latest aircraft designs. March 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

Air Mail to Africa Poster
Poster, Air Mail to Africa, showing two Africans looking up at airliner G-ABPI. 20th century

Poster, Scotts flight from England to Australia
Poster, Royal Matinee, Queens Hall, London, CWA Scott AFC will tell his graphic story of the flight from England to Australia in under 3 days

Nord Air Express Poster
Nord Air Express Air France - Sabena Poster, the direct route for Scandinavia, with a map showing routes between cities. 20th century

Fairground Fun
A flying rocket ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Funfair, Lancashire, England. Date: late 1960s

Captain Albert Ball
British flying ace of World War One, Captain Albert Ball (1896 - 1917) seated in his SE5 biplane. Britains highest scoring profile fighter pilot during World War One; died in action shortly before

The HMS Collingwood and seaplane
The HMS Collingwood with a seaplane flying overhead. A St Vincent Class Dreadnought Battleship, launched in 1908, commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1922

Three evening outfits by Drecoll, Premet and Paul Poiret, for the arrival of the Flying Cloud at Cannes, France. On the left, a black dress with lace

British SE5A biplane on airfield, WW1
A British SE5A biplane, one of the main aeroplanes in use by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Seen here on an airfield, with crew. 1914-1918

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

Scout hot air balloon
A group of Scouts preparing to fly their hot air balloon, adorned with the Scout Association Fleur-de-lis emblem, at Gilwell Park. 1976

Sunbeam motor car advertisement
A colour advertisement for Sunbeam car and aircraft engines. A sunbeam car can be seen in the foreground with an aeroplane flying overhead

RAF Bombers breaching the Mohne Dam; Second World War, 1943
Drawing showing the destruction of the Mohne Dam in Westphalia, Germany, by the squadron of Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers who came to be known as The Dambusters, 16th May 1943

Girl on Stile / Spring
A little girl in a blue dress stands on a stile: spring is well under way, with blossom on the trees and birds flying

Magic Carpet Airborne
The Magic Carpet, favoured transport system of the Arabian Nights

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

Torpedoed Ship in Dock
A steamship - torpedoed by the Germans although flying the neutral Norwegian flag - is brought into dry dock for repairs

Ufos / Arnold 1947
Idaho businessman Kenneth Arnold, flying over the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, sees a formation of very bright objects

Behind the Flying Saucers, book cover
BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS, a book by Frank Scully, and the first to claim that a flying saucer had crashed in the American desert

Flying Saucer from Mars - Cedric Allingham

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)

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

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