Hercules Gallery

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

Avro Tudor 7 G-AGRX

Avro Tudor 7 G-AGRX at the 1947 Radlett SBAC show. The first production Tudor 2, modified on the production line to Tudor 7 standard, powered by Bristol Hercules 120 radial engines, in place of Rolls-Royce Merlin 102s. First flown on 17 April 1946 RX was used for cabin heating tests before delivery to the Ministry of Supply as VX199 in March 1949, for use by the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Defford. Date: 1947

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

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

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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