Pilot Collection (page 7)

Ship dropping the pilot Date: 1913

Claude Graham White, pioneering aviator
Claude Graham White, nicknamed Claudie, pioneering aviator Date: 1911

Members of the ATA (Women's Section)
Members of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Women's Section. Winifred Crossley (d. 2008) was one of the very first women to join. Date: 1940

Women ATA pilots
Gabrielle Patterson (1905-1968) and Grace Brown, pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). Date: 1940

Two VCs and a DFC
Sergeant John Hannah, V.C. Pilot Officer C. A. H. Connor, D.F.C. And Flt. Lt. R. A. B. Learoyd, V. C. being celebrated for their achievements leading to Victoria Crosses

Johanne Cloherty of the National Women's Air Reserve
Johanne Cloherty (1917 - 1996) became Johanne Etherton after her marriage in 1944. At this time, she is chairing the Ball Committee of the National Women's Air Reserve. Date: 1939

Early aerial photograph and aviators
An early aerial photograph of Paris captured during Emile Dubonnet's (1883-1940) pioneering 65 mile flight from Juvisy to Orleans in 1910

Daughter Christmas, colour illustration by E F Sherie, showing daughter in red, alighting plane assisted by pilot. Captioned, A Welcome Amendment to an obsolete claus'

Wartime advert for Vinolia Soap, featuring an image a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Date: 1943

The Motor Picture Book, Traffic Control from the Air Date: 1930

Raymond Baxter interviewing an airline pilot: discussing the use of simulators for training navigation and airfield approach procedures, on 6 November 1958

Raymond Baxter interviewing Captain James Linton A. F. C
Raymond Baxter interviewing Captain James Linton A.F.C, a BOAC Comet pilot: discussing the recent introduction of the de Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 on trans-Atlantic airline routes

General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon 83-1134
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16C Block 25A Fighting Falcon 83-1134 (msn 5C-17), at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. This aircraft crashed on the Barry M

Bennett PL-11 Airtruck ZK-BPV (msn 001), of Waitomo Aircraft Ltd. at Ardmore, NZ. on 22 July 1961. (Written-off on 8 October 1963, due to pilot incapacitation). Date: 1961

Slingsby Dart 17R 377, at the launch point with the pilot ready to board. Date: circa 1982

Pilatus PC-6 Turbo-Porter HB-HMN (msn 870), of the International Test pilot School, at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show held between 5-12 September 1990. Date: 1990

Gloster Meteor 7 and a halfs WL419 (msn G5-423772), of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. (on loan from the Ministry of defence), at Boscombe Down for Air Tournament International 1992, on 13 June 1992

Lockheed Vega 5 NC658E (msn 55), in American Airways livery, with noted aviatrix Elinor Smith, at age 19, standing in front of it

Sergeant John Hannah, VC and Pilot Officer C. A. Connor
Royal Air Force Sergeant John Hannah, VC and Pilot Officer C.A. Connor, WW2 Date: 1942

Royal Air Force Pilot Officer K. W. MacKenzie, DFC
Royal Air Force Pilot Officer K.W. MacKenzie, DFC, inspecting wing of his Hurricane, WW2. Date: 1942

King George VI decorating Squadron Leader A. C. Deere
King George VI decorating Squadron Leader A.C. Deere, New Zealand Fighter Pilot, autographed, during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Royal Air Force Pilot Officer G. H. Bennions, WW2
Royal Air Force Pilot Officer G.H. Bennions leaving Buckingham Palace after receiving a decoration during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier 158957
United States Marine Corps - Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier 158957 (msn 712118, base code WH, call-sign 12'), of VMA-542 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N671SA (msn 67001), at the SBAC Farnborough Airshow, held between 1-8 September 1974. N6715A crashed while conducting a low-level aerobatic demonstration at the Farnborough

Folland Gnat T. 1 XR951 26
Royal Air Force - Folland Gnat T.1 XR951 26 (msn FL568), of No.4 Flying Training School, at RAF Finningley in September 1969, parked next to the Empire Test Pilot School Viscount 744 XR801. Date: 1969

Grumman AA-1B Trainer G-BCIL (msn AA1B-0378), at RAF Woodvale in July 1977. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14 June 1986 when crashed and overturned at Lambs Hillock, Ellon, Aberdeenshire

WW2 poster, The Battle of Britain, August-October 1940, Churchill quotation in Portuguese - Nunca na Historia da Guerra, tantos deveram tanto a tao poucos

WW1 - Death and the Aviator - Russian propaganda card, casting the German Aviator as the bringer of death and destruction. Date: circa 1915

Henri Farman - Flight of One Kilometre 1908
British-French pilot Henri Farman winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. For the successful flight of an aircraft heavier than air

Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Appearing on the front cover of ?The Illustrated London News

Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Reginald
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Chivalry of the air by G. H. Davis
The chivalry of the air: the courtesy of foe to foe. Showing a British pilot dropping a wreath for a comrade's grave in the German lines during the First World War

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

Funeral of Manfred von Richthofen, WW1
Funeral of the German air ace, Manfred von Richthofen, towards the end of World War One, on the Western Front in France. Men firing a volley over the graveside. Date: April 1918

Sir John Tenniel, artist, illustrator and cartoonist
Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914), British artist, illustrator and political cartoonist, who had just died. Seen here with two of his most famous Punch cartoons

Oswald Boelcke, German aviator, WW1
Oswald Boelcke (1891-1916), German flying ace of the First World War. He is considered to be the father of the German fighter air force, and was the first to formalise rules of air fighting

British plane crash with dead pilot, WW1
A crashed British plane with the dead pilot lying on the ground during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Crashed Allied plane at Fournes, France, WW1
A crashed Allied plane at Fournes, on the Western Front in northern France, during the First World War, with German troops and others gathered round. Date: 1914-1918

Sheila Scott, English record-breaking aviator
Sheila Scott (Sheila Christine Hopkins, 1922-1988), English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flights

Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Russian cosmonaut
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (b 1937), Soviet Russian cosmonaut, and the first woman in space, piloting Vostok 6 for three days in June 1963. Date: circa 1960s

Harry Hawker (1889 - 1921), the pilot and passenger attempt to win the Daily Mail £5000 prize, round Britain. Unfortunately on 27th August the machine fell into to the sea of a height of about

English Electric Lightning F. 1A XM135
English Electric Lightning F.1A XM135 (msn 95031), at Duxford. This aircraft jumped the chocks at RAF Lyneham and flew a circuit with no canopy or functioning ejection seat

North American F-86F Sabre 52-4584
North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4584 (MSN 191-280), at the Las Vegas Golden Air Tattoo, on 26 April 1997. (flown by Maj. John Glenn (USMC) while an exchange pilot with USAF). Date: 1997

Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk. 6 N86EX
Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk.6 N86EX (msn 1489, ex SAAF 380), at the Las Vegas Golden Air Tattoo, on 26 April 1997. This aircraft crashed, killing the pilot on 1 June 1997 at Broomfield, CO. Date: 1997

de Havilland Canada U-6A Beaver 164525
United States Navy - de Havilland Canada U-6A Beaver 164525 (msn 492-1275, ex USAF 52-6113, ex N4755T), of the Naval Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland

Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk. 5 23226
Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk.5 23226 (msn 1016), on display at the England Industrial Air Park, Alexandria, Louisiana, painted as North American F-86F Sabre 52-4931, which crashed near Nancy, France

Lockheed P-38J Lightning N3145X (msn 2054, ex 42-67543), of the Fighter Collection, at Boscombe Down for the Air Tournament International, on 13 June 1992

Lockheed F-104S ASA-M Starfighter MM6769 - 4-53
Aeronautica Militare Italiano - Lockheed F-104S ASA-M Starfighter MM6769 / 4-53 (msn 783- 1069), of 4 Stormo, on the line waiting for a pilot, at Grosseto Air Base in March 1998

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