Pilot Collection (page 16)

Avro 504K with inset of pilot Edward Jones
Avro 504K belonging to the Kingwell and Jones Flying Company, with an inset portrait of the pilot, Edward Jones. Date: early 1920s

The Tornado, Bleriot plane of B C Hucks
The Tornado, Bleriot plane of Bentfield Charles Hucks, the first English pilot to loop the loop. Date: circa 1913

Bristol Brandon RAF air ambulance J6997 on an airfield. Date: circa 1925

Naucrates ductor, or Pilot Fish. Date: 1863

Three people in a biplane on an airfield. Date: circa 1930s

Man and woman in a biplane on an airfield. Date: circa 1930s

Royal Naval Air Service in Great War Deeds, WW1
Flight Commander Hewlett of the Royal Naval Air Service (before the RAF was formed) almost colliding with a mast of a German warship during the air raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914

Aeroplane that flew itself
A British biplane flies on, though the pilot and observer are both dead. The aeroplane was observing artillery when set upon by enemy Albatros scouts

Guynemer memorial, Poelcapelle, Belgium
Village square, Poelcapelle, Belgium, with the memorial to the French fighter pilot Georges Guynemer who was lost in 1917. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Double-sized German biplane debut over Poelcappelle
WW1 - The new extra-sized German fighter biplane shown making its debut in the war. It was nicknamed Fritz by the British

WW1 - Guynemer with proud relatives at his home in Compiegne
WW1 - Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894 - 1917), a top fighter ace, Lieutenant, Captain and Commander of the Storks Squadron for France during World War I

WW1 - Guynemer gets his Captains stripes, 3rd March 1917
WW1 - Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894 -1917) was a top air fighter for France during World War I. He became an ace by his fifth victory in February 1916

WW1 - Guynemer goes into action, June 1917
WW1 - Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894 - 1917) was a top fighter ace for France during World War I, and promoted to Lieutenant. He was a French national hero at the time of his death

WW1 - Aerial combat - Over Mametz Wood, France
WW1 - An illustration and birdseye view of an aerial fight. A British airman in action bringing down an enemy aircraft over Mametz Wood in France. Date: 1917

WW1 - Close encounter between aeroplane and balloon
WW1 - A depiction of a close aeronautic encounter between a aeroplane and balloon hidden from each other in the cloudy sky

WW1 - Guynemer with flag of first air group, Longvic, Dijon
WW1 - Georges-Marie Guynemer (1894-1917) was a top fighter ace for France during World War I, and a French national hero at the time of his death

WW1 - Lieu Guynemer and Capitaine Brocard after 5th Victory
WW1 - Lieutenant Georges-Marie Guynemer (1894-1917) and Capitaine Felix Antonin Brocard commander of Escadrille N.3 (Storks)

WW1 - French airborne chivilary, 1915
WW1 - Two French pilots seated in their aircraft called Lorraine as it prepares to set off to pay tribute to one of their dead comrades

WW1 - Russian reconnaissance plane, 1915
WW1 - A Russian airfield covered in snow with Russian sky-pilots seated in their aircraft. Surrounded by their fellow airmen

WW1 - Aircraft - The Henri Farman HF. 20
WW1 - The Farman HF.20 and its derivatives were a family of reconnaissance aircraft produced in France shortly before and during the First World War

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

WW1 - Aircraft in battle, 1915
WW1 - A depiction of an aerial duel, with the gunner from the aeroplane in the foreground, firing at its enemy from above at a distance. Date: 1915

WW1 - French monoplane armoured and armed with machine gun
WW1 - The pilot is seen here clear above the armoured body of the plane, where the gunner stands behind a shield on which the machine-gun can pivot

WW1 - Captain Hawker takes on three Germans in the air
WW1 - Captain Lanoe George Hawker VC, DSO (1890-1916), was a British flying ace, with seven credited victories. This illustration captures an occassion on 25th July 1915

Vought Test Pilot team, 28 May 1942 -Lt-Rt Boone Guyton, Charlie Sharpe, Dick Burroughs, Bill Boothby & Lyman Bullard with SB2U

Wendel, Fritz, test pilot

Reginald Alexander John Warneford, RNAS pilot
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John Warneford (1892-1915), RNAS pilot who was awarded the VC and the Legion d Honneur. Date: circa 1915

Wendel, Fritz, test pilot with Graf (left) and Nett

Voisin, Gabriel, designer pilot and manufacturer with his 1915 Voisin triplane bomber

Voisin Triplane Bomber Seen with a modified nose having open front gunner and pilot cockpits

Sowrey, Frederick, VC, fighter pilot

Sopwith Bee single-seater biplane (sole model) produced in 1916 as personal transport for Sopwiths chief test pilot, Harry Hawker. Date: circa 1916

Twiss, Peter test pilot flew Hurricanes catapulted from merchantman

Sikorsky Igor, Pilot and aircraft manufacturer, 1943

Sopwith 1F Camel two-seat trainer, serial no. B 3801. Date: circa 1918

Scott, Robert L US Army and AVG pilot in Curtiss P-40

Royal Aircraft Factory FE 2d two seater plane, with pilot, observer and reconnaissance camera. It helped end the scourge of the notorious Fokker Eindecker. Date: circa 1915-1917

Saulnier, Raymond, designer pilot and manufacturer in his Morane-Saulnier Type G, 1913

Rumpler D I German fighter biplane (serial no. 1589/18) which came too late to take part in the First World War. It was apparently difficult to build

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon, Pilot and US leading air ace in WW2, born Columbus, Ohio, 1890

Royal Aircraft Factory BE 2A reconnaissance plane
Royal Aircraft Factory BE 2A two-seater reconnaissance plane, the first British aircraft to land in France two weeks after the outbreak of the First World War

Robinson, William Leefe, VC, fighter pilot RFC

O Hare, Edward H Butch US Navy fighter pilot as Lt

Oesau, Walter pilot as Major and his Bf 109E

O Brian, Peter, RAF pilot, later Grp Capt in Hurricane 1940

Nieuport 17 in Italian colours
Nieuport 17 made by Nieuport-Macchi in Italian colours, serial no. Ni 3632, with pilot. Date: circa 1916-1917

Myers, John W, Pilot as Vice Pre (side view)nt Northrop and P-61

Mitchell, William Billy, Pilot as Brigadier General US Army Air Service

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