Pilot Collection (page 13)

Wreckage caused by Dornier Bomber in Victoria Station
Part of an enemy fuselage hits Victoria Station. Wreckage caused by German Dornier Bomber which was brought down by Fighter Pilot Ray Holmes in the forecourt of Victoria Station. 15th September 1940

RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue helicopters
Two helicopters belonging to the No. 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue, based at Thorney Island near Chichester, West Sussex

WW2 poster, Thanks for Your Help! Airman shaking hands with airfield workman, photographic poster printed for HMSO by Henry Hildesley. Date: circa 1942

The Queen and Colonel Frank Borman
Queen Elizabeth II meets Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928), United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

Cartoon, Pilot falling from plane, WW1
Cartoon, a German pilot falls from his plane towards an airfield below. He doesn t appear to have a parachute, but he feels fortunate to have his little dog mascot with him. Date: 1917

WW2 poster, Back up the Fighting Forces, showing an airman, a soldier and a sailor. Date: early 1940s

R. A. F, The Specialist, WW1, cartoon, H. M Bateman
A World War One R.A.F pilot pokes his head out of the side of his biplane as he releases a grossly oversized bomb. Date: 1918

Miles Master IA -the RAF standard advanced fighter pilot trainer in the early war years

Kurt Student, German fighter pilot with Albatros D III
Kurt Student (1890-1978), German fighter pilot with his Albatros D III, soon after taking over Jasta 9 in 1916. He also served in the Second World War, rising to the rank of Generaloberst

Ernst Udet, German pilot and fighter ace
Ernst Udet (1896-1941), German pilot and fighter ace, seen here standing near his Fokker D VII. He also served in the Second World War

Tempest, WJ, VC, fighter pilot

SIAI Marchetti SM93 -this Italian attempt at a Ju 87 Stuka replacement used a prone pilot position and was tested by the Luftwaffe

Ryan YPT-16 -based on their earlier STM sport plane, Ryan built thousands of these pilot trainers, as well as operating training schools

Friedrich Ritter von Roth, German fighter pilot and air ace
Friedrich Ritter von Roth (1893-1918), German fighter pilot and air ace who specialised in targeting enemy observation balloons, seen here with his Albatros D Va. Date: circa 1917-1918

Pokryshkin, Alexander, pilot, Soviet P-39 ace

Theodor Osterkamp, German pilot and fighter ace
Theodor " Theo" Osterkamp (1892-1975), German pilot and highest scoring fighter ace with the Imperial Naval Air Service. Seen here sitting on the portside wheel of his Fokker EV 156/18

Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, pilot and fighter
Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser (1892-?1927), French pilot and fighter ace. Seen here leaning against his Nieuport 23, bearing his macabre personal emblem, and with three medals on his uniform

WW1, Jean Marie Dominique Navarre, pilot and fighter ace
Jean Marie Dominique Navarre (1895-1919), French pilot and fighter ace, seen here as a sergeant pilot serving with Escadrille MS 12 towards the end of 1915. The plane is a Morane-Saulnier Type L

James Thomas Byford McCudden, pilot
James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918), British air ace with a confirmed overall score of 57, who rose to the rank of Major, seen here in the cockpit of his Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5a

Johnson, JEJ Johnny Wg Cdr and Spitfire

Fokker E III of Max Immelmann at Douai, France
Fokker E III of the German pilot and ace Max Immelmann (1890-1916) at Douai, France, where his unit, KEK 3, was based. Date: circa 1915-1916

Boeing Stearman N2S-2 at Corpus Christi, Texas in 1943 This and its US Army PT-13 equivalent were vital to US wartime pilot training

Airspeed AS 10 Oxford - the standard RAF multi -engine pilot trainer

WW2 Valentines Day card, RAF plane flying over houses. Date: circa 1942

Beagle-Wallis WA-116 XR942 British Army Biggin Hill
Built by Beagle Aircraft to the design of ex-RAF bomber pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis, the Beagle-Wallis WA-116 was an autogyro created mainly for military reconnaissance and surveillance

Tatler cover - Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard, WW1
Air Commodore Philip Fletcher Fullard CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, AFC (27 May 1897 24 April 1984), English First World War flying ace

Captain James McCudden V. C
Captain James McCudden (1895 - 1918), R.F.C, V.C. D.S.O. (with bar), M.C. (with bar), M.M. Croix de Guerre, British WWI flying ace and recipient of the Victoria Cross

Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes

New type of German armoured aeroplane 1918
German armoured aeroplane (an A.E.G), specially adapted for attacking the Allied troops in their trenches, made an appearance on the Western Front at the end of World War One. 1918

Air Travel - Thomas Cook
Brochure for Thomas Cook air travel holidays. Date: 1937

Bengt R. Olow, Saab?s Chief Test Pilot, with the Saab 210

Major James L Cordes, Chief Test Pilot, Handley Page
Major James L. Cordes, Chief Test Pilot, Handley Page (under the umbrella) at the 1939 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at the Fairey Aviation Aerodrome, Great West Road, Hayes, Middlesex

The last Hawker Typhoon, a IB, with test pilot Moss

Bill Pegg Bristol test pilot left and Cyril Uwins
Bill Pegg, Bristol test pilot, left, and Cyril Uwins, chief test pilot, Bristol Aeroplane Company, in front of the first production Bristol Blenheim

Pilot in Vickers Vimy Commercial G-EASI
Pilot in Vickers Vimy Commercial, G-EASI, City of London, of Instone Air Line leaving Croydon

Vought F7U-3P Cutlass 129748
Vought F7U-3P Cutlass, 129745, being flown by John Konrad, Vought chief test pilot

Gloster F9 / 40 DG205 / G forerunner of the Meteor
Gloster F9/40, DG205/G, forerunner of the Meteor, with, from left, John Crosby-Warren, test pilot; Michael Daunt, test pilot; Frank McKenna, md, Gloster; Air Cdre Frank Whittle and W.G

Book cover design, With the Airmen

American trotting stud: Mambino Pilot, Flora Temple. Date 1866

Enola Gay presented to the Smithsonian
The superfortress bomber Enola Gay, the first aircraft to carry the atomic bomb in war when it dropped the bomb Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan in World War Two

The phenomenal trotting gelding Jay Eye See, by Dictator, dam Midnight, by Pilot Jr: driven by Edwin D. Bithers. Date c1884

Peggy Salaman, 19 year old aviatress, who flew from Lympe in Kent to Cape Town, South Africa in November 1931, beating the existing record set by Glen Kidston by more than a day

General von Hoeppner, Wolff and Richthofen, WW1
General Ernst Wilhelm von Hoeppner (1860-1922), German cavalry officer who commanded the Air Service during the First World War

Serbian Air Force at Ufa, WW1
Men of the Serbian Air Force, including Lieutenant Melc, with a biplane from the 1st Division at Ufa during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Two German pilots in relaxed mood, WW1
Two German pilots in relaxed mood during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Russian Ilya Muromets Sikorsky biplane and crew, WW1
A Russian Ilya Muromets Sikorsky heavy bomber biplane and crew on an airfield during the First World War. Introduced in 1913, the plane was named after a hero from Russian mythology. Date: 1914-1918

Morane-Saulnier N and Henry Farman biplane, WW1
A Morane-Saulnier Type N French monoplane fighter aircraft, with Lieutenant Bayetto of the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) in the cockpit during the First World War

Adolf Ritter von Tutschek, German air ace, WW1
Hauptmann (Captain) Adolf Ritter von Tutschek (1891-1918), German soldier turned aviator, air ace (with 27 victories). Seen here in his Fokker triplane at Foulis near Laon, northern France

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