Our Hercules Collection of Images

Flight simulator in use, RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire

A flight simulator in use at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire. Before computers, flight simulators used actual models of different airfields in order to train pilots. The model used here was of the RAF base on Gan Island in the Indian Ocean. A colour TV camera relayed a picture of the scale model to a screen in the mock up of a Hercules Transport aircraft. Detail on the model was so precise that final work had to be carried out under a magnifying lens. Date: circa 1976

© Mary Evans Picture Library/DAVID LEWIS HODGSON

Cinerary urn with reliefs depicting Heracles (Hercules) begi

Cinerary urn with reliefs depicting Heracles (Hercules) beginning in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Detail. White marble. From the columbarium near Porta Maggiore. Dated probably early Roman Imperial period. Palazzo Massimo. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

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Victory Day in London, 1918, WW1

Snapshots of prominent members of society out in London to celebrate the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the First World War. Top left shows Lady Honor Ward, Lord Dudley's eldest daughter in front of Buckingham Palace with Mrs Dunville. Top right is Mr Hercules Langrishe with Lady Milbanke, bottom right shows Mrs George Keppel (former mistress of King Edward VII) with Lady Gainford and Lady Joan Combe sitting on one of the numerous German guns on view in the Mall and bottom left shows F. E Smith (Lord Birkenhead), the Attorney-General and best friend of Winston Churchill with Lady Smith and their daughter, the future Lady Pamela Berry. Date: 1918

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans