Test Collection (page 5)

Ling-Temco-Vought YA-7D Corsair II 67-14583
Ling-Temco-Vought YA-7D-1-CV Corsair II 67-14583 (msn D.002). Modified with a prototype Digital fly-by-fire system and later put on display at the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum Airpark

Scaled Composites SC. 133-ATTT N133SC
Scaled Composites SC.133-ATTT N133SC (msn 001), on display at the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base. (ATTT - Advanced Technology Tactical Transport). Date: circa 2000

Martin RB-57B Canberra NASA 809 (msn 166, ex 52-1576) at the Edwards Air Force Base Flight test Museum. (NASA 809 was modified for use as a Hydrogen fuel test-bed)

United States Air Force Boeing WC-135B 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base. Boeing C-135B-BN Stratolifter (Boeing 717-185)

English Electric Canberra B. 2 WV787
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment - English Electric Canberra B.2 WV787 (msn 71644), water-spray tanker for icing tests

Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3A RA G-AWKI
Hawker Siddeley HS-125-3A/RA G-AWKI (msn 25161), with Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd for flight test and delivery to completion centre in the United States. Date: 1968

Comic postcard, Man uses lung testing machine at the seaside Date: 20th century

Three ladies posing for a studio photograph in a fake car. Date: c. 1900
Three ladies posing for a studio photograph in a fake car. Date: c.1900

Testing aeroplanes - The National Physical Laboratory
The British Air-Office: A Place of wind-towers, whirling-tables and gales made to order. The testing of aeroplanes at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington

John Hassall in his Argyll motor car
The artist John Hassall in his 23-30 Argyll motor-car after climbing the test hill at Richmond Park. Date: 1907

Citizens of Brighton shown wearing gas masks in everyday situations in 1941. School children are guided across the road by a police officer, a milkman wears his on his rounds

Workshop for engine test of machinery by Lawrence Hathaway, Member of IMechE, at his Trinity Pumps Company, Gobowen. The company produced floating pumps which were first used in fire engines

Engine test of machinery by Lawrence Hathaway, Member of IMechE, at his Trinity Pumps Company, Gobowen. The company produced floating pumps which were first used in fire engines and then cars

Tasting tea, China. 1888

Tasting room, United Kingdom Tea Company, London
One of the tasting rooms of the United Kingdom Tea Company Limited, London, with various members of staff at work. Date: circa 1890

Cartoon, Mr William Yardley, English cricketer and writer
Cartoon portrait, Mr William Yardley (1849-1900), English first class cricketer (Cambridge University and Kent) - Always good at scoring. He was also an actor, playwright and drama critic. 1884

British Manufacture of motor cars by G. H. Davis 1926
Diagram showing the construction and assemblage of cars at the Austin Motor Company, Longbridge Works at Birmingham. Date: 1926

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

Learie Constantine and George Headley - test cricket 1939
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, MBE (1901-1971), and George Headley of the West Indies head out to bat after tea at Lords during the 1939 test match between England

Cricket - England versus Australia at Lords, 1905
England versus Australia at Lords-the second test match. Haigh bowling to Victor Trumper(1877-1915), who scored 31 before falling to Jackson

The England Cricket Team, Oval Test Match, 1886. 1886

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja, Indian ruler and cricketer
Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja, Indian ruler of Nawanagar and Test cricketer. circa 1897

Violet Cordery, Queen of Motorists
Violet Cordery, whose successful driving earned her the title of Queen of Motorists, showing her sister Evelyn how to tune up a car

Prototype De Havilland Iris I biplane, possibly undergoing trials on a loch. Date: circa 1926

Poster advertising the Test Match in Australia
Onslow Auctions Collection Date: 1932 - 1933

Marconis wireless telegraph message, Dover 1899
Guglielmo Marconi, shown here in the photograph with his latest invention, sending a wireless telegraphy from Dover Town Hall to South Foreland Lighthouse, through four miles of cliffs

Republic JF-105B Thunderchief 54-0112
United States Air Force - Republic JF-105B-2-RE Thunderchief 54-0112. Ordered as an RF-105B, but diverted to test missions after the RF-105B was cancelled. Date: circa 1960

Cessna 175B G-ARFL (msn 175-56868), at Coventry - Baginton on 29 April 1961. Built as N8168T, for flight test before delivery to Airwork Limited in 1960

Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker 57-2589
United States Air Force - Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker 57-2589 (MSN 17725) 13 December 1958: First flight. 21 January 1959: 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Offutt AFB, NE

Hawker Siddeley Hawk T. 1 XX341 ASTRA 1
Empire Test Pilots School - Hawker Siddeley Hawk T.1 XX341 ASTRA 1 (Advanced Stability Training Aircraft) (msn 312165), circa 1995

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

Douglas NRA-3B Skywarrior 144825
United States Navy - Douglas NRA-3B Skywarrior 144825, at an air display on 15 May 1965. Built as an A3D-2P photo-reconnaissance bomber

Convair F-106A Delta Dart O-70237
United States Air Force - Convair F-106A Delta Dart O-70237 (msn 8-24-26) Built August 1958; Air Force Flight Test Center [AFFTC], Edwards AFB, CA. Date: circa 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

Empire Test Pilots School - Vickers Viscount 744 XR801 (msn 89). August 1954 - Contract signed by James Henry Slim Carmichael

Bleriot 71 four engined bomber, one of a series of similar aircraft produced by Bleriot from 1916. Early in its flight test program an incident during landing, on 15 May 1918

Found FBA-1A CF-GMO-X (msn 1). The pre-cursor to the Found FBA-2A Bush Hawk, first flown on 13 July 1949, was designed and built by brothers N.K (Bud) and S.R. (Mickey) Found from 1946

Convair YB-58A-1-CF Hustler 55-670 (msn 11) of the 6592nd Test Squadron, Carswell AFB, TX, with markings for Operation Deep Freeze, the climatic testing of the B-58 carried out at Eglin AFB

Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 and North American X-10 GM-19307
Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 (msn 12415, call-sign 69 ) in 1940 war game special camouflage colours, in the collection of the National United States Air Force Museum, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

USMC - North American Rockwell YOV-10A Bronco 152880
United States Marine Corps - North American Rockwell YOV-10A Bronco 152880 (msn 300-2), the second pre-production OV-10 in storage after service with the Naval Air Test Center

Potez 840 F-WJSH (msn 001), a four engined feeder-liner developed in France, displaying the F-W--- test registration, for aircraft not certified. Date: 1960s

United States Navy - Douglas A3D-1 Skywarrior 130356 (msn 9257), seen with JATO bottles fitted for trials. (Note: JATO became superfluous with development of the high-powered steam catapults in)

Northrop YRB-49A 42-102376 (msn 1496), in storage with Northrop, at Ontario Airport. built as a YB-35, converted to YB-35B, then YRB-49A

Boeing XB-29G Superfortress 44-84043, General Electric engine test-bed with a J47 in the bomb-bay mounted retractable trapeze at Schenectady County Airport, NY

Fa Facilities Experimental Center - Grumman F9F-8P Cougar
Federal Aviation Administration Facilities Experimental Center - Grumman F9F-8P Cougar N473 NAFEC-14. On loan from the United States Navy - BuAer number 141683 msn 15 ( N474, NAFEC-15)

Mitsubishi 2MR1 Tobi reconnaissance biplane. Designed and built for an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service competition for a reconnaissance aircraft

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