Pilot Collection (page 9)

British Airmen with a big bomb, 1918
British Airmen of the Royal Air Force pictured examining a large bomb to be taken aloft and dropped. Date: 1918

Officers of the Royal Air Force Squadron (Canadian)
Officers of a Royal Air Force Squadron (Canadian) with their machines in France. Date: 1918

Pilots of the Royal Air Force Scouting Squadron
Airmen of the Royal Air Force scouting squadron posing for a photograph, together with various animal mascots, in July 1918. Date: 1918

Views along the Shasta Route, California, USA, showing Mount Shasta, the Sacramento River, Pilot Peak, Castle Crags and Moss Brae Fall. Date: circa 1900

Raymonde de Laroche (1882 -1919), born Elise Raymonde Deroche, French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilots licence

A British pilot of the Royal Flying Corps, photographed in his uniform a couple of months after the end of World War One. Date: 1919

Dassault Falcon 20B-5 F-BNRE (msn 53), of Dassault Aviation, operated for the Air France pilot training programme, sometime between 9 November 1966 to 2 June 1969, somewhere in Africa

Cessna 180 HB-COU (msn 31700) On 12 April 1960, this aircraft crashed and caught fire, when the pilot lost control trying to regain VMC in low clouds (240 feet), killing all three occupants

Vought DF-8F Crusader 143703
United States Navy - Vought DF-8F Crusader 143703 (call-sign 103 ), target tug, of the Pacific Missile Centre, at Point Mugu Naval Air station, on 15 May 1965

Druine D. 31 Turbulent G-ARCZ
Druine D.31 Turbulent G-ARCZ, at Redhill aerodrome circa 1970. Written off (damaged beyond repair) on 1 June 1984 when crashed near Stapleford, Essex

Tipsy T. 66 Nipper Mk. III G-AVKT
Tipsy Nipper Mk.III G-AVKT (msn 70), prototype of the Mark III, at an air display in the Netherlands, circa 1969, parked next to Le Manchots (the Penguins) aerobatic display team

Junkers Ju 88 D-1 / Trop FE-1598
(ex Royal Romanian Air Force) - Junkers Ju 88 D-1/Trop FE-1598 (Werk Nr. 430650 / HK959 / Baksheesh ), in outdoor storage / display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force

Piper PA-23 Apache G-ASHC
Piper PA-23-160 Apache G-ASHC Crashed 21 March 1964 at Melling, near Aintree village, on Grand National Day, killing all five persons on board (pilot and four passengers)

Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat 93879
Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat N4994V (msn A-11631, ex BuAer number 93879), a former United States Navy radio-controlled drone target, on display at the Air Museum, Lancaster California, on 28 May 1965

North American YF-100A Super Sabre 52-5754 (msn 180-1), the first prototype F-100 with test pilot Joseph Walker posing in the cockpit, probably at Edwards Air Force Base

Consolidated - Fleet Model 21-C
Mexican Air Force - Consolidated (Fleet) Model 21-C, waiting for its pilot, sometime before delivery to the Mexican Air Force. The Model 21 was the civilian version of the Consolidated PT-12

Boeing 707-379C PP-VJK (msn 19822, line number 726) of VARIG (Viacao Aerea RIo-Grandense). First flown on 28 June 1968, VJK was delivered to VARIG on 4 November 1968

USAF - United States Air Force - Boeing B-17G
United States Army Air Force - United States Air Force - Boeing B-17G, seen, presumably, at Shaw Field or a satellite field

British Aircraft Company - B. A. - Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG
British Aircraft Company (B.A.) Cataract Swallow 2 G-AELG (msn 449), at Lympne for the 1946 or 1947 (it competed in both) Folkestone Aero Trophy air races

United States Navy Blue Angels - Grumman F11F-1 Tiger 141738, BLUE ANGELS number 6 at Burlington, Iowa. 1958: VF-156 with unit code NH, call-sign 105. 1965: Flew with the Blue Angels

Republic XP-91 Thunderceptor 46-0681 4 May 1949: 0680 (1st prototype) first flight. 14 October 1949: 0681 first flight. Summer 1951:engine failed on take-off summer 1951 at Edwards AFB

Curtiss Falcon - Conqueror - Mail-plane - NX5988
Curtiss Falcon (Conqueror) Mailplane NX5988 (msn 1). A mail-plane derivative of the Falcon with an enclosed cabin forward of the pilot

Curtiss Beachy Tractor biplane. Lincoln Beachey, a reknowned American display and aerobatic pilot worked for Curtiss until 1911 and required a new aircraft to carry on with his own air-show flying

United States Navy - Curtiss 18T-2 A3325 on take-off as a floatplane. After retiring from the 1922 Curtiss Marine Trophy Race with mechanical trouble, the Navy had no urgent need for both 18Ts

Charles W. Wald, an early student pilot of the Wright Brothers flying school. Date: circa 1910

Pigeon Scout
Pigeon Fraser Scout 117, delivered to Langley Field November 1917, transferred o McCook Field for testing, but crashed soon after taking off on its first flight, killing the pilot

Grumman XF9F-2 Panther 122475 (Model G-79, 1st prototype), at the Naval Air Testing Centre on Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, with Grumman test pilot Corky Meyer (Corwin H)

de Havilland DH. 110 WG240 2nd prototype
de Havilland DH.110 WG240 2nd prototype at the 1952 SBAC Farnborough air-show, (1-7 September). WG 240 was flown by test pilot John Derry in the air display from 1-5 September

Empire Test Pilot School - Fairey Gannet T. 5 XG873
Empire Test Pilot School - Fairey Gannet T.5 XG873 (msn F9402) at Farnborough. First flown on 9 March 1956, delivered on 23 March 1956, later tested to destruction at the Fairey facility at Hayes

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 55 Apollo VX224
Armstrong Whitworth AW.55 Apollo VX224 (G-AMCH, not carried) of the Empire Test Pilot School, at Farnborough. The ETPS had the Apollo for only nine months, during which it only flew 20 hours

Folland Fo. 139 Midge G-39-1
Folland Fo.139 Midge G-39-1, taxiing for take-off at Chilbolton, Follands flight test base. First flown at Boscombe Down on 11 August 1954, the Midge was used to demonstrate the feasibility of W.E.W

United States Air Force - North American AT-28D 51-3681 (msn 174-219), in storage at the Sacramento Air Materiel Area (SMaR), McClellan AFB, CA

United States Air Force - North American F-100C Super Sabre
United States Air Force - North American F-100C-25-NA Super Sabre 54-2110 (msn 217-371) of the 476th Fighter-Day Squadron / 479th Fighter-Day Wing at Palmdale

United States Air Force - Kaman HH-43F Huskie 59-1544 (msn 25), of Detachment 14, 42nd Aerospace Rescue Squadron, at Nellis Air Force Base

United States Navy - LTV A-7A Corsair 153214 CORSAIR COLLEGE, unit code NJ, call sign 201, of VA(F)-122 an operational training squadron

United States Navy - Vought TF-8A Crusader 143710
United States Navy - Vought NTF-8A Crusader 143710, of the Test Pilot School, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, with a ground run intake guard fitted

WW2 pop-up Christmas card (inside), May Joy-stick to you, Happy Landings! Date: circa 1942

Juanita Burns - Aviatrix
circa 1910s

Pilot Talks To Tower Date: 1947

Prince Albert preparing for flight in a Handley-Page bomber
Prince Albert, later Duke of York and King George VI (1895-1952), as a Captain in the Royal Air Force to which he transferred from the Navy in 1918

WW2 greetings card, RAF pilot
WW2 pop-up greetings card (inside), RAF pilot shaking hands with a colleague. Date: circa 1942

Silhouette of an RAF pilot officer

Mary, Lady Heath female Irish aviator Date: 1928

LONDON AIRPORT 1950S
One of the B.O.A.C. Speedbird Aeroplanes of the Argonaut class being towed from the hangar at London (now Heathrow) Airport. Date: 1950s

FALL / SCOTTISH TERR. / 1934
CHAMPION ORTLEY PILOT Owned by Dr. Conrad Bremer. Date: 1934

SAILING SHIP, BRIDPORT
A two-masted sailing ship sails out of the harbour at Bridport, Dorset (England), dropping the pilot at the harbour entrance Date: 1908

Manfred Von Richthofen - WW1 - German flying ace
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Known as the Red Baron, Red Devil and Red Knight of Germany; he was Germanys greatest WWI pilot Date: 1914 - 1918

SLOCUMS VISITOR
American circumnavigator Joshua Slocum, lying sick in the cabin of the Spray, is protected by the pilot of the Pinta, one of Columbuss ships. Date: 26 July 1895

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