Swoop Collection

National Aviation Day Display poster
Poster, National Aviation Day Display, new events, new thrills, new aircraft, fly with the three aces, under the direction of Sir Alan Cobham, Coming Soon. 20th century

Seaside boating scene
A couple push out their small motor boat into an estuary at the mouth of a small coastal river. This looks like a southern Norfolk or North Suffolk coastal view as the terns swoop overhead

Pterodactyl / Dragonfly
A Pterodactyl of the Lassic Period, chasing a giant dragonfly

WW2 Lightning Swoop
This illustrations shows British aircrafts performing a lightning swoop attack on enemy shipping, warehouses and wharves. Date: 1941

Jugend front cover, naked woman feeding birds
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a naked woman feeding birds. She holds food in her hands, and the birds swoop down. Date: 1898

On the Swoop
On The Swoop! The Imperial German eagle swoops menacingly over natives of the Congo looking to steal their land

Fantasy coastal scenery at sunrise
A fantasy coastal landscape at sunrise. Gulls swoop, as waves lap gently against the dark sands of a deserted and smooth beach. Airbush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Flock of seagulls on a ploughed field
Seagulls swoop onto a newly ploughed field in the hope of finding food. 1960s

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

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

Swooping owl weathervane 2011

Afghanistan / Bolan Pass
Vultures swoop to feed on carrion. The Bolan Pass was one of the routes used by the British to invade Afghanistan in November 1878. Date: 1878

Old Salt shows a young lad his telescope
An elderly sailor seated on the end of a weathered groyne lets an inquisitive young lad peer through his telescope, as the terns swoop overhead

Gulls in Ploughed Field
Seagulls swoop on a newly ploughed field in the hope of finding food

Medici / St Bartholomew
Catherine de Medicis urges her 22-year old son Charles IX to massacre all the Huguenot leaders in one fell swoop. He reluctantly agrees, and a blood-bath ensues

Mountain Railway USA 2
This electric funicular in the Catskill Mountains gives tourists a thrill unknown to Rip van Winkle (whose adventures took place here) as they swoop down and up again

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