Pilots Collection (page 8)

Curtiss AT-9 fast and unforgiving it was built to train bomber pilots

Curtiss A-25A Helldivers flown by US women-ferry-pilots

De Havilland, Geoffrey (the younger), test pilot in DH 108

Collishaw, Raymond, chats to one of his RNAS Sopwith Camel pilots

AVG pilots, Alison, John R, Hill, David, Baumler, Albert, Mitchal, Mack

Airco DH5 of No32 Sdn-back staggered wings improved pilots forward visibility

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows Wineglass Finningley 1988
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks flying a small Wineglass formation in the year when two pilots were lost and they flew their displays as a seven ship team. Finningley 1988 Date: 1988

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows Diamond Finningley 1988
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks flying a Diamond Seven in the year when two pilots were lost and they flew their displays as a seven ship team. Finningley 1988 Date: 1988

The courtesies of the air, WW1
The courtesies of the air: how the airmen fight. Showing British war biplanes parked in a wide meadow (top), British and Belgian aviators (bottom left), and a group of German aviators (bottom right)

Illustrated War News front cover, shooting from plane
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring an illustration of a British plane with the pilot shooting a revolver mid-flight

Grivillers & Maricourt, French aviators, Sopwith biplane
Grivillers and Maricourt (Somme) - French aviators with a Sopwith biplane, by Louis Dauphin (1885-1926)

WW2 poster, Achtung! Achtung! The Lancaster strikes by night, the Fortress strikes by day. Date: 1940s

British Airmen, WW1
British airmen from the Royal Flying Corps, First World War. From left to right, Lietenant Playfair, Lieutenant Mills, Lieutenant Soames, Captain Board, Major Riley, Major Higgins, Lieutenant Jones

Tatler front cover, William Leefe Robinson, V. C. WW1
Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, a member of the RFC No. 39 Home Defence Squadron, shot down a German airship on 2nd September 1916 above Hertfordshire

Childs Royal Flying Corps uniform, World War One
A Royal Flying Corps miniature uniform for children, available from Gamages, and comprising breeches, tunic and puttees with the cap being 1s. 6d. extra

American pilots in China
With their leave over, American pilots board a truck and leave Chongqing (Chungking) to return to the air field where they are serving with the 14th U.S. Army Air Force in China

RAF personnel marking German positions, WW1
RAF pilots and observers marking German positions in preparation for a raid, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

Suit to prevent pilot blackout by G. H. Davis
Beating the fighter pilots problem: a suit to prevent blackout. Details of the American Berger G2 suit, designed to keep pilots conscious in high-speed air battles during the Second World War

Air battles at 500 mph by G. H. Davis
Air battles at 500 miles an hour: possibilities of the new jet- and rocket-propelled aircraft. A pictorial outline of some problems likely to face pilots

Ground crew activities by G. H. Davis
The men behind the fighter pilots: how the ground crews keep their aircraft fighting fit. RAF teamwork during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Inflatable German dinghy by G. H. Davis
Saving the Luftwaffe: an inflatable dinghy for defeated German airmen. It was carried by the larger German aircraft during the Second World War

Deck flying by G. H. Davis
Deck flying: problems met by pilots of the Fleet Air Arm. The arts of flying from and landing on naval aircraft carriers: difficulties created by rolling and pitching ships, by bumpy air

King George V with RAF pilots, Western Front, WW1
King George V inspecting RAF pilots on the Western Front in France during World War One. General Herbert Plumer (nicknamed Old Plum) can be seen just left of centre. Date: circa 1918

Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning ops
Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning operations on the enemy - the start and return. The bomber pilot and captain finds his squadron is down for operations

British night fighters by G. H. Davis
Methods of Britains night fighters during the Second World War: the element of surprise. Clear, dark nights are ideal for hunting enemy raiders

Aircraft Anti-Fog Device by G H Davis
A diagram explaining the wireless system used to guide aeroplanes using charged cables. The system was designed to help planes land in their aerodromes by leading pilots to the landing straight

Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the ?
Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the fuel tank was housed internally to improve the pilot?s view and the wings were rebuilt

Griffith Brewer, the first Englishman to ride in an aero?
Griffith Brewer, the first Englishman to ride in an aeroplane (1908) after obtaining his Pilot?s ?A? Licence in 1930 at the age of 63

French Farman Aircraft Squadron at Thessaloniki, Greece (do look at: 10818253, which shows these aircraft being delivered, in crates!) Date: circa 1916

Edward, Prince of Wales - Calshot - Schneider Trophy
Edward, Prince of Wales (future King Edward VIII) (1894-1972) - with British Pilots at Calshot. The September 1929 Schneider Trophy contest at Calshot was won by H R D Waghorn

Turkish Military parade - Holding gliders Date: circa 1935

Northrop F-15A Reporter Pilots Ira Williams and Gayle York
Northrop F-15A Reporter. Pilots Ira Williams, left, and Gayle York underneath the largest pice of plexiglass then blown, April 1946

Financier Bowen with pilots J H Wright and J Polando
Financier Bowen with pilots J.H. Wright and J. Polando Warner in front of their Lambert Monocoupe 145, NC501W, Baby Ruth, prior to the MacRobertson England to Australia race of October 1934

Col Fitzmaurice and Eric W Bonar, pilots
Col Fitzmaurice and Eric W. Bonar, pilots of the Bellanca 28-70, The Irish Swoop, a non-starter in the MacRobertson England to Australia race of October 1934

The Duke of Kent congratulating Sqn Ldr Herbert Brackley of Imperial Airways for being the first recipient, along with eight other Captains

Test pilots and staff RFC Farnborough

Mrs Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks in 1912, the second woman to obtain a Royal Aero Club Pilots Certificate, Number 153 (awarded on 7 November 1911), at Hendon. Date: 1912

John Marten Rush Cripps (1887 -1950)
John Marten Rush Cripps (8 December 1887 to 1950) was awarded Pilots Certificate No698 for qualification at the Grahame-White School, Hendon, on 2 December 1913. Date: 1950

RAF pilots during WW2

Air Transport Auxiliary pilots in front of an Avro Anson. From left: Flt Capt R. Vincent, Capt F. White, Cdre Gerald DErlanger, Commanding Officer; Flt Capt Stewart Keith Jopp, Capt G

Air Transport Auxiliary pilots, From left: Pauline Gower, Commander; ja; and Joan

Pilots walk past a Grumman F6F Hellcat on a carrier deck

The first Aeronautical Syndicate Ltd Valkyrie with Mrs Horatio Barber in the pilots seat

A group of early French pilots Rougier Farman Latham V
A group of early French pilots. Rougier, Farman, Latham, V. Bateson

Pilots pose before a de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner
Pilots pose in front of a de Havilland DH86 Express Air Liner of British Airways

Flt Lt V Suhr of the Federal German Air Force
Flt Lt V. Suhr of the Federal German Air Force, one of several pilots coverting to the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA1 for the Tripartite Evaluation Squadron about to take-off near Hawker Hart II

Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA1s and their pilots

Pilots entering English Electric Lightning
Pilots entering the cockpit of a two-seat English Electric Lightning

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