Pilot Collection (page 8)

Avro 652 Anson I N4877 - G-AMDA of the Skyfame museum at Staverton Airport N4877 was built at the Avro factory at Newton Heath, Manchester and was taken on charge by the Royal Air Force on Nov 17

On 7th September 1929, Flying Officer Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, a pilot with the Royal Air Force High-Speed Flight based at RAF Calshot, flew a Supermarine S.6, N247

The Wedding of the World Champion Sculler Mr George Towns to Miss Amy Roslyn Harding at Southsea, prior to Towns return to his native Australia

Vought F8U-1 Crusader 145375
United States Navy - Vought F8U-1 Crusader 145375 (base code AK, call-sign 200 ), of VF-62, seen embarked on USS Shangri-La, during a families day in port

Comic postcard, Bride and groom leaving church Date: 20th century

RAF pilot in disguise used to escape German army, WW2
RAF fighter pilot wearing the disguise in which he escaped the notice of the German Army during WW2 Date: 1941

RAF intelligence officer with Polish pilot, WW2
RAF squadron intelligence officer noting down the details of a Polish sergeant pilots air fight as soon as he lands, WW2 Date: 1941

Bad Luck Crest designed by fighter pilot, WW2
Bad Luck Crest, a form of modern heraldry designed by a fighter pilot who escaped from Dunkirk during WW2 Date: 1941

Vought-Sikorsky VS-200 Helicopter Date: 1942

Miles Hawk Trainer Aircraft

Glider used for display at the Cobham Air Circus Date: 1930s

Amy Johnson, pilot, ready for her London-Australia flight Date: 1930

Schleicher ASW-19B R19 (msn 19317), at a regional gliding competition in the 1980s. I flew this glider many times at RAF Hullavington, before it was re-allocated to another club

Comic postcard, Man at a school of aviation Date: 20th century

Sicele O Brien (1887 - 1931), Irelands pioneering pilot, second woman to get her commercial licence

WW II - Mitchell bombers of the RAF Arnhem, Netherlands
World War II - Mitchell bombers of the RAF dropping bombs on Arnhem, Netherlands

World War II - Corsair lands in flames on aircraft carrier, Pacific Ocean, pilot unhurt

Enola Gay, aircraft, atom bomb Japan in 1945, WW II
Enola Gay, aircraft used to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, World War II

Helene Dutrieu
Hlne Dutrieu (1877 - 1961), Belgian world champion cyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, cyclist and motorcyclist and pioneer aviator

Pilot Officer T G W Appleby in a Talbot Ten Sports Tourer - photographed outside the Clement Talbot Motor Works prior to competing in the Monte Carlo Rally (he finished 64th)

Photograph of British Pilot PH, All Hallows on Sea, Dorset. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub

Memorial to Belgian pilot Willy Coppens, Klerken, Belgium
The small memorial to Heldhaftig Piloot Willy Coppens is in the Willy Coppens Plein in Klerken. He was Belgians leading fighter ace and, like American Frank Luke

Claude Grahame-White, English pioneer of aviation, in April 1910 Grahame-White attempted to win the Daily Mail newspaper prize of 10, 000, to fly across England from London to Manchester in 24 hours

Interceptor aircraft pilots waiting to go up 1939
Interceptor aircraft pilots sitting on their parachutes as they wait for the order to fly, a few weeks after the outbreak of war

Diagrams showing air fighting techniques 1939
Set of diagrams detailing the techniques of fighter planes, taking into account their increased speed. Clatworthy shows the advantages of " dive

German plane wreckage on the outskirts of Warsaw, Sept 1939
A crowd inspects the remnants of a German plane, having been shot down just outside Warsaw as part of the Polish resistance to German invasion, in September 1939. September 1939

Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy in Test Pilot (1938) with Loy in a Dolly Tree suit Date: 1938

A scene from Test Pilot (1938) with Myrna Loy (dressed by Dolly Tree), Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable Date: 1938

Picturegoers Famous Film Supplement for Test Pilot (1938) starring Myrna Loy (dressed by Dolly Tree), Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable: a film dressed by Dolly Tree Date: 1938

First fully successful westbound North Atlantic flight
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, co-pilot Evert van Dijk, navigator John Patrick (Paddy) Saul and wireless operator John Stannage

Pierre Clostermann Memorial, Bazenville, Normandy
Clostermann, the First Free French pilot to land in Normandy (ALG B2), held the DFC and Bar and the Legion d Honneur. The Memorial is in the shape of a Spitfire wing

A centrifuge at Farnborough 1955
A centrifuge at Farnborough. Page from The Sphere, 28th May 1955, reporting on Britains first centrifuge capable of testing human subjects in the interests of safety of aircrew and equipment

Mackerel fishing methods, pilot fish and painted mackerel
Mackerel fishing methods: walled channels and grate to catch spawning mackerel with the tide 47a, and fishermen in boats unfurling nets to encircle a school of mackered 47b

Pilot fish, Naucrates ductor (pilot mackrel, Scomber ductor). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Long-finned pilot whale and Rissos dolphin
Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas, and Rissos dolphin, Grampus griseus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

John Alcock, British aviator
Pilot John William " Jack" Alcock (1892-1919), British aviator. Completed the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919 alongside navigator Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948)

Pangborns monoplane at Wenatchee, Washington State, USA
Clyde Pangborns Bellanca Skyrocket monoplane, which he belly-landed at Wenatchee, Washington State, on 5 October 1931, to complete the first non-stop aeroplane flight between Japan and the USA

Poster, You can help to build me a plane, WW2. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any employment exchange for advice and full details. A job is waiting for you. 1940s

French Caudron biplane after beach landing
French Caudron single-seater biplane after a beach landing, with the pilot and a large crowd of onlookers, with a Grand Hotel in the top right. Date: circa 1912

Air force pilot standing by his plane, Republic of Estonia. Date: 1922

Sir Alan Cobham returns to London from Australia
Sir Alan Cobham, Imperial Airways pilot, returning from his 26, 000 mile flight to and from Australia. He landed on the River Thames in London, near the Palace of Westminster, on 1 October 1926. 1926

Poster, Careless Talk May Cost His Life, WW2
Poster, Careless Talk May Cost His Life. circa 1940

French recruitment poster for pilots, design by Paul Colin. circa 1920

A Direct Hit, by Geoffrey Watson, WW1
A Direct Hit, watercolour by Geoffrey Watson, First World War. 1918

A Nice Conclusion, by William Heath Robinson, WW1
Cartoon, A Nice Conclusion, by William Heath Robinson, First World War. Enemy aviator (beginning to realise) -- Himmel! Surely I the zone of fire approaching be. circa 1918

Aircraft pilot - People You See. From Teddy Bear (1966). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1966

The Pilot. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Hilda Hewlett
Hilda Beatrice Hewlett (1864 -1943), early aviator and aviation entrepreneur. She was the first British woman to earn a pilots licence

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