Test Collection (page 7)

Test pilots - Summers, Lucas, Bulman and Hindmarsh
Hawker test pilots: From left: F. Summers, P.G. Lucas, P.W.S. Bulman and John Hindmarsh

Hawker test pilots

Hawker test pilots Flt Lt Ralph S. Munday and Cpt Hs Broad
Hawker test pilots circa 1943, from left: Flt Lt Ralph S. Munday and Capt Hubert Stanford Broad. Date: circa 1943

Two test pilots - Cdr Dobson, RAF and ?Dutch? Holland
Two test pilots, from left: Cdr Dobson, RAF and ?Dutch? Holland alongside a Supermarine Spitfire, May 1942. Date: 1942

Sqn Ldr Albert Kenneth Cook DFC, Avro test pilot, left, ?
Sqn Ldr Albert Kenneth Cook DFC, Avro test pilot, left, and Sqn Ldr Hedley George Hazelden DFC*, Handley Page test pilot, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14

P. R. Hornage, Bristol test pilot - 1947 RAeS Garden Party
P.R. Hornage, Bristol test pilot, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Peter Twiss, Fairey test pilot, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Hawker test pilots alongside a Hawker Tempest. From lef?
Hawker test pilots alongside a Hawker Tempest. From left: Capt Hubert Stanford Broad, Sqn Ldr Richard Vivian Muspratt, Bright and William ?Bill? Humble

Napier test pilots alongside a Hawker Tempest. From left: H. Ken Cartwright, Mike Randrup, J.F. Olver and Alan Sutcliffe DFM

The Napier experimental team in front of Hawker Tempest?
The Napier experimental team in front of Hawker Tempest V, NV768, fitted with an annular radiator, July 1946. Standing: F.S. Lester, Flight Test Engineer; R.C. Marcell, Chief Draughtsman; K.H

Fokker FVIIb-3m, J7986, fitted with a Monospar ST2 wing for tests at the RAE. H.M. Schofield, Monospar Test Pilot in the foreground, circa 1931. Date: circa 1931

Kellett XR-10 under test at Olmsted Air Force Base, Middletown, PA

A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recover?
A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recovery system of the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile. 1957 Farnborough air show. Date: 1957

Chrysler Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) launched on a test flight from Cape Canaveral on 27 February 1959. Date: 1959

Blue Streak test at Spadeadam

Blue Streak test rig at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics? factory at Hatfield

Blue Streak first stage in test tower at de Havilland?s fact
Blue Streak first stage in a test tower at de Havilland?s factory at Hatfield

Static test rig installation at Hatfield for Blue Streak, c1
Static test rig installation at Hatfield for development of Blue Streak, circa 1958. Date: circa 1958

Bristol Bobbin recoverable ramjet test vehicle

Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine?
Sir Hiram Maxim operating the valve of the steam engine during a propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Whirling table - propeller test - Baldwyn?s Park, Kent
The whirling table on propeller test at the shed at Baldwyn?s Park, Kent, where Sir Hiram Maxim constructed his steam-driven aeroplane, 1890

Armstrong Whitworth Siskin II, G-EBHY, on test in Sweden
The second Armstrong Whitworth Siskin II, G-EBHY, on test in Sweden in March 1926. Date: 1926

Jam Saheb Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, H.H. Ranjitsinhji Jamsaheb of Nawanagar (18721933) Indian prince and noted Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team

Ufos / White Sands
During a missile test at White Sands proving ground, New Mexico, a missile is paced by two inquisitive UFOs Date: 10 June 1949

British Aerospace EAP ZF534 landing Farnborough 1986
British Aerospace EAP ZF534 single prototype, test and development aircraft for the future Eurofighter Typhoon programme landing at Farnborough Air Show in September 1986 Date: 1986

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913
Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds

Pavel Stepanek, Czech parapsychology subject
Pavel Stepanek (b. 1931), Czech parapsychology subject, taking part in many ESP test sessions with Milan Ryzl during the 1960s. Date: circa 1960s

Miles Gillette Falcon L9705
Miles Gillette Falcon, L9705, was used to test a full-scale wooden wing proposed for the M52

Brian Trubshaw (left) BAC Concorde chief test pilot
Brian Trubshaw (left), BAC Concorde chief test pilot and John Cochrane, deputy chief test pilot, on the flightdeck of Concorde 002 preparing for its maiden flight on 9 April 1969. Date: 1969

English Electric Canberra B(I)8 modified to carry Ferranti Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker. From left: Bill Roberts, flight test observer; Len Houston

Cricket at Bramall Lane 1911
A view of the Bramall Lane cricket ground, Sheffield. In progress is a three day Test Trial match (1st to 3rd June) between G.L.Jessops XI and P.F.Warners XI, ultimately won by the former

Experiment with British Mark V tank, WW1
Experimentation with a British Mark V tank, fitted with rope-sprung tracks by Colonel Johnson at Dollis Hill, north west London, during the First World War

British Mother or Big Willie tank being tested, WW1
British " Mother" or " Big Willie" tank being tested at Burton Park, Lincoln, during the First World War

UFOS / AZTEC
Alleged alien remains from a UFO crash near Aztec, New Mexico. Possibly a monkey used in a military rocket test which failed. Date: 7 July 1948

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Model of the R. M. S. Queen Mary in a test tank, 1934
Photograph of an 18-foot model of the R.M.S. Queen Mary being tested in an experimental tank. The designers were seeing how the ship would cope with an Atlantic Gale when run at full speed

Piece of string with comic verse on a Christmas card
Piece of string with comic verse instructions on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, cricketing lion and kangaroo
Cartoon, cricketing British Lion and Australian Kangaroo. The lion says: Well, you don t mind a good licking, so long as you get the gate money, do you? 1884

Jules Fischer testing Farman hydroplane, France
Jules Fischer (or Fisher) testing a Farman hydroplane or hydroglider on the River Seine, France, between Sartrouville and Maisons-Laffitte, north west of Paris. Date: circa 1924

Fantastic Adventures - The Liquid Man
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story The Liquid Man by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube

The Queen and Colonel Frank Borman
Queen Elizabeth II meets Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928), United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

Painting, Jardin d Essai du Hamma, Algiers, Algeria
Painting (gouache) of Banana Trees by Jacques Lacombe, Jardin d Essai du Hamma (Botanical Garden or Test Garden of Hamma), Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

The US Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Pilots from left: Maj Charles E. Yeager, Maj H.G. Russell, Col F.J. Ascani, Brig Gen J.S

Put to the test, 1915
President Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A, " Sakes alive! Seems like I m goin to prove that water is thicker than blood, after all!" Date: 1915

Lockheed PV-1 Ventura on pre-delivery test prior to joining US Navy

Folland Fo108 -one of the few aircraft to be designed specifically as an aero engine flight test bed

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