Tests Collection

Alexandra Palace, the home of the B. B. C. The large transmitt
Alexandra Palace as the home of the B.B.C television service in 1936 showing the mast and transmitting aerials for vision and sound

Monte Bello atomic test
First British atomic test, Monte Bello islands, Australia on the 3rd October 1952 Date: 3rd October 1952

Frank Decker & Price
Harry Price tests Frank Decker, one of Americas most outstanding mediums : he was of Syrian origin. Date: 8 June 1933

NFS - Home Office hose tests at Wimbledon, WW2
London Region NFS/AFS firefighters assisting in Home Office trials to improve water delivery systems to emergency dams and onto fires after the fire service was nationalised in August 1941

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1912
Francois Reichett tests his parachute by jumping from the Tour Eiffel, Paris; sadly, the test fails, and he is unable to make a second try Date: 1912

Find syphilis Help employees get blood tests. Poster promoting employer-sponsored blood tests for the detection of syphilis, showing a doctor drawing blood from a worker in an industrial setting

EYE TEST / 1958
The school matron tests the eye sight of a few young boys

Tank / Comet Cruiser
A British Vickers-Armstrong Comet Cruiser tank undergoes tests

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507
Convair NF-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507 (msn 8-27-01) at NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH. registered as NASA 607 Built April 1958

Boeing 367-80 N70700 (msn 17158) taking off out of Boeing Field. N70700, first flown on 15 July 1954, was the prototype of the Boeing 707 - 717 - Stratotanker family

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

Sud-Aviation Caravelle VII F-BJAO - Caravelle Santa Maria
Sud-Aviation Caravelle VII F-BJAO / N420GE (msn 042) Caravelle Santa MariaThis was a Caravelle Series III (c/n 042) that was purchased by General Electric

Sqn Ldr Lord Clydesdale, left, the chief pilot of the H?
Sqn Ldr Lord Clydesdale, left, the chief pilot of the Houston-Mount Everest expedition, and Lt-Col L.V.S. Blacker, the chief observer, fully equipped for one of the final tests of the Westland PV3

Boeing NKC-135A 55-3134
United States Navy - Boeing NKC-135A 55-3134 (MSN 17250), at Davis-Monthan AFB for storage and disposal. Initially converted to JKC-135A test aircraft and then to NKC-135A King Crow I?

Britten-Norman BN. 2A-2 Islander G-AZEH
Britten-Norman BN.2A-2 Islander G-AZEH (msn 289), on pre-delivery flight tests / publicity shoot near Bembridge, before delivery to Fairoaks Aviation, operating for Volkswagen. Date: 1971

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II - new plough tested at Peterhof
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II examines a new model of Plough being demonstrated in the grounds of the Peterhof Palace, a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg

Spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Tree and spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Douglas C-54P 50851 (msn 10428, ex 42-72323). Used for radar tests at NATC Patuxent River, MD. under designation R5D-2-2. Had two pods mounted under each outer wing

Boeing RB-52B-10-BO Stratofortress 52-0013 (msn 16503), at the National Atomic Museum, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. (52-0013 was operated by the 4925th Test Group, Kirtland AFB, NM during the ?)

Unconventional aircraft Pterodactyl tailless aeroplane undergoing tests at Yeovil, Somerset Date: 1938

Britten-Norman - Cushioncraft CC. 5 No. 001
Britten-Norman - Cushioncraft CC.5 No.001, at Hovershow 66, held on Browndown near Gosport, on 6 June 1966. (During tests off Priory Bay (Isle of Wight)

Nord Aviation N 500 Cadet (msn 001), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1967, with airshow serial 344'. In 1966 Nord (later part of Aerospatiale) built two Cadets

A dummy village made of canvas used for Artillery practise with Lyddite shells - near Okehampton, Dartmoor. A shell explodes near the Church'. Date: 1912

Great Plague of London of 1665
Blaize, an apothecary, tests medicines to try and cure the plague Date: 1665

Lockheed NT-33A-1-LO 51-4120 (MSN 580-5414). Used for tests successively by Lockheed, Allison Division of General Motors, USAF Wright Air Development Cener

Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2667
United States Air Force - Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2667 (MSN 18343), of 10th Airborne Command & Control Squadron, at RAF Mildenhall in November 1998

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

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

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

Made like a Rolls Royce by G. H. Davis
Tests that render this phrase a world-wide standard of efficiency. Secrets of Rolls-Royce perfection A few of the rigorous tests applied to every new car, and the making of the famous radiator

Car designed for world speed records
Car designed by a French engineer for world speed records -- it was eventually burnt out during tests on the sands at La Baule. 20th century

A seated candidate for the French Air Service is subjected to a series of tests to gauge his respiration, hand and pulse, during the firing of a revolver

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

Mitsubishi A6M7 Reisen (msn 23186, allied reporting name Zeke), on display at Willow Grove Naval Air Station ca1957. This Mitsubishi A6M7 was built by Nakajima Hikoki as their 43rd Model 62 aircraft

Lockheed U-2G N808X
Central Intelligence Agency - Lockheed U-2G N808X. One of several U-2s procured by the CIA, for operations from aircraft carriers, fitted with lift-dumping spoilers

United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29 Superfortress
United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29-90-BW Superfortress 44-87744 (msn12547), force landed at Moses Point Airport, Elim, Alaska due to two in-flight engine failures

Douglas XF4D-1 Skyray 124587 (msn 7464), 2nd prototype of the F4D at Edwards Air Force Base, on loan to General electric for engine development

United States Air Force - Bell P-59B Airacomet 44-22650
United States Air Force - Bell P-59B-1-BE Airacomet 44-22650 (msn 27-58) at Wright-Patterson AFB. 30 October 1944 :taken on strength by USaF, (delivered prior to contract cancellation)

United States Air Force - Fairchild XC-119A (XC-82B)
United States Air Force - Fairchild Model 105 XC-119A - XC-82B 45-57769 (MSN 10139). A C-82A rebuilt as the prototype XC-82B, then redesignated XC-119A (Model 105)

Goodyear GA-468 Inflatoplane (Goodyear XAO-3-GI), single-seat Inflatoplane at the 1959 World Congress of Flight, held in Las Vegas

Short SC. 1 XG905
Short SC.1 XG905, the second SC.1, on the tether rig at Belfast for initial tethered flight tests. The firstt SC.1, XG900

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

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire 50-0957 (msn 880-8002), at Naval Air Station China Lake, with weapon release camera on the fin leading edge, for trials

Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight 124610 (msn 7481 {El Segundo}), at Friendship Airport in Baltimore. Used by Westinghouse to test the AN/APQ-72 radar, for the McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II

United States Air Force - Convair B-36D-1-CF Peacemaker
United States Air Force Convair B-36D-1-CF Peacemaker 44-92026 (msn 23), of the7th Bombardment Wing, at Detroit, Michigan. Built as a Consolidated B-36B-1-CF Peacemaker, first flown 8 July 1948

Biomedical centre, London -- a woman attaches sensors to a patient. Date: 1972

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