Obsolete Collection

Supermarine stranraer
One of the last of the stately biplane flying boats, the Stranraer is the first of its kind with an enclosed cockpit : it will be obsolete by WW2

Douglas C-124 Globemaster O-265406 in the museum at Kelly Air Force Base. This aircraft was scrapped when the airbase closed

Royal Aircraft Factory FE 8 single-seat fighter plane, first flown on 8 November 1915. It became obsolete by 1916. Seen here is serial no

Poster for a Royal Navy Auction, 1910
Poster advertising an auction held in 1910 to sell a number of obsolete Royal Navy vessels. The Navy was selling these five vessels to the highest bidder

Iowa Air National Guard - Northrop F-89J Scorpion O-32662
Iowa Air National Guard - Northrop F-89J Scorpion 53-(O-3)2662 (O for obsolete, not a number), of the 124th Fighter Interceptor Squadron

Douglas C-124C-DL Globemaster II 51-7277
United States Air Force - Douglas C-124C-DL Globemaster II 51-7277 (msn 43728), of the 63rd Troop Carrier Wing at Prestwick airport on 22 May 1965

Douglas C-124C-DL Globemaster II 51-0167
United States Air Force - Douglas C-124C-DL Globemaster II 51-0167 (msn 43501), of the 63rd Troop Carrier Wing at Prestwick airort on 19 March 1965

HMS Gibraltar
Royal Navy - HMS Gibraltar, an Edgar-class, 1st class protected cruiser, bdfore being fitted with a forecastle to improve sea-worthiness

The introduction of electric trams in the cities of Britain were becoming more popular due to being cleaner, cheaper, smoother, roomier and safer

An old printer sits in an armchair contemplating the fact that modernisation has made him redundant. An appropriate illustration for Printers Pie which was a charitable magazine published by The

United States Air Force - Douglas C-124C Globemaster II O-15199 (O for Obsolete, originally 51-5199). Date: 1960s

North American F-100A-1-NA Super Sabre O-52-5761 of Connecticut Air National Guard at Bradley Field (letter O prefix denotes Obsolete). Date: 1965

Convair JC-131B O-53-7791 (MSN 243), (the letter O denotes Obsolete), modified as JC-131B test-bed. Assigned to Aeronautical Systems Division

USAF GC-130A
United States Air Force Lockheed GC-130A-LM Hercules 53-3131 (MSN 182-3003) converted to NC-130A. To Sheppard AFB as GC-130A O-33131 ground trainer by 1978 (O for obsolete). No engines by Dec 2002

Amiot 143-built to a 1928 requirement, this type was totally obsolete when used by the French in late 1939 and early 1940

Bloch MB 200-of early 1930s origin, this bomber was obsolete but still used by France and Czechs

HMS Brilliant and HMS Sirius, Ostend, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view of two obsolete British cruisers, HMS Brilliant and HMS Sirius, which took part in a failed attempt to block the port of Ostend, Belgium

VIVANDIERES 1795-1870
Vivandieres - they became obsolete around the time of this illustration Date: 1795 - 1870

Reynaud Projecting Zootrope
Reynauds Projecting Zootrope, a very sophisticated device, but also, doomed to be made obsolete by the praxinoscope and even more so by the first cinematograph projects. Date: 1890

Sukhoi Su-2 -already obsolete by mid-1941, this 1937 light bomber took a battering from the Luftwaffes fighters 910 built

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -already obsolete by the outbreak of war Always confined to night operations

Soldier of the Royal Guard. Ancient dress not yet entirely obsolete - Coat & helmet are lined with a mail of hard leather - & studded with iron buttons

View of British ships from Ostend, Belgium, WW1
View of British ships and boats out at sea, seen from the port of Ostend, Belgium, during the First World War. They include two obsolete British cruisers, HMS Brilliant and HMS Sirius

Politics / Pacifism
Britains idea of disarmament is to burn some obsolete vessel while building up her modern fleet Date: 1907

Crowded out
A potato coster laments the progress in motorised traffic and predicts the future obsolesence of horse drawn vehicles. The caption reads - Stage Struck coster (to his dark coloured donkey)

The Civil War in America: naval engagement in Hampton Roads
The confederate iron-plated steamer Merrimac, running into the Federal sloop, Cumberland, from a sketch by T. Nast. This encounter had one important result; the Federals realised that wooden ships

Steamship dreadnought
Dreadnough, the Royal Navy battleship which introduced a new era of construction : her all big gun design made all earlier battleships obsolete. She fought in WW1, scrapped 1923

Electric Light Comes
Coming events cast their shadows before - and none more so than the electric light, which promises to make all other forms of illumination obsolete

Tsukuba Warship
Japanese battlecruiser, somewhat obsolete even when built : in 1917 her magazine will catch fire and she will explode and sink in Yokosuka Bay

Caproni Ca-90
The worlds largest landplane (for the time being) this six engine heavy bomber will never have the chance to prove its worth, being obsolete by the next time Italy goes to war

Redundant horse becomes a museum piece
In the future the horse as a form of transport will become redundant, and will only be seen in museums

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