Wings Collection (page 9)

Angel outside a house on a cutout Christmas card
Angel in the snow, looking through the window of a house on a cutout three-dimensional Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Angel with coat and hand muff on a German Christmas card -- Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe (Glory to God in the Highest). Date: circa 1890s

Angel in coat and scarf on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Angels, Mary and Baby Jesus on a cutout Christmas card
Angels, the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus on a cutout three-dimensional Christmas card -- Glory to God in the Highest. Date: circa 1890s

Angels and star on a cutout Christmas card
Angels and star on a cutout three-dimensional Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Nativity scene on a three-dimensional Christmas card
Nativity scene with angels, holy family, shepherds and kings on a three-dimensional Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two angels with nativity scene on a Christmas card -- Gloria in Excelsis Deo. Date: circa 1890s

Fairy with butterflies on a Valentines card. Date: circa 1890s

Angels, bells and birds on a cutout Christmas card
Angels, bells and birds in the snow on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Angels, snow and robins on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Angels and cross on a cutout devotional card. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian scrap, Snow Angel with a fur muff. circa 1870s

Angel and sleeping girl on a cutout Christmas card
Angel watching over a sleeping girl on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Angels and bell on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New - New Year Bells

Victorian Scrap, parrot on a hoop perch
Victorian Scrap, pink and green parrot on a hoop perch. circa 1890s

Angel with horse-drawn chariot on a Christmas card
Angel and cherubs with blue flowers and horse-drawn chariot on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four cherubs on a greetings card (open). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Birds and flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), British barrister and politician, serving as Lord Chancellor for a number of years during the early 19th century. circa 1810s

Front cover, War in the Air, WW1
Front cover, War in the Air, First Exhibition of Royal Air Force Photographs in Colour, First World War. circa 1918

French postcard, Merry Christmas, WW1
French postcard, Merry Christmas, First World War. 1914-1918

Peace Plate, designed by W H Goss, to celebrate the end of the First World War. circa 1919

Monument in Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon, Portugal
Monument in Avenida da Liberdade (Liberty Avenue), Lisbon, Portugal, marking the beginning of the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain (1640-1668). Date: circa 1930

Marie George, American performer, sitting on a paper moon. Date: circa 1900s

Poster, Swiss National Flugspende. Designed by P Kammuller. circa 1925

Artists impression of an idea under consideration of the French Government - aeroplanes with invisible wings, to make them difficult to be spotted by the German Air Force pilots

Front cover of Graphic - Christmas 1870
Front cover of The Graphic, supplement for Christmas 1870, showing five winged cherub angels looking in the centre of the page, at a star to signifie the birth of Jesus. 1870

Martin RB-57A O-21459
United States Air Force - Martin RB-57A-MA O-21459 (msn 42, 52-1459), of the Michigan Air National Guard. Of note is the rotary bomb door which is seen half open

Garland-Lincoln LF-1 N12237, of Tallmantz Aviation, at Orange County Airport, in California. The LF-1 was a re-manufactured version of the Nieuport 28, with short-span wings. Date: circa 1957

Hanriot HD-1 flown by Charles Nungesser
The Hanriot HD-1 flown by famed World War I French Ace Charles Nungesser in the 1925 movie The Sky Raider, with Nungessers distinctive badge on the fuselage side

Aircraft Engineering Corporation Ace K-1 N69097. This single-seat biplane, powered by a 40hp Ace engine; was designed by Alexander Klemin (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, NYU) and N W Dalton

Keeler-Cornelius Fre-Wing X182W (msn PW-1). In the mid-1920s George Wilbur Cornelius started a program of experimentation on variable incidence wings, forming the Cornelius Aircraft Co

Kaiserliche Marine - Albatros W. 4 747
Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) - Albatros W.4 747, prototype of the W.4, which was operated by the Marine-Fliegerabteilung from September 1916

Curtiss Model S-1 Baby Speed Scout as originally built, with short span upper wings. Date: 1916

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

L-W-F Model H Owl - AS64012
L-W-F Model H Owl AS64012, in later guise with extended centre nacelle and four-wheel main undercarriage. The Owl was distinctive for its tube-like twin booms with central nacelle fuselage

Armstrong Whitworth Awana - J6860
Armstrong Whitworth Awana J6860. The Awana was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification 5/20 for a twin-engined Troop Carrying Aeroplane

Curtiss Model N floatplane, with early wings and interplane strut-mounted ailerons. Date: circa 1913

Curtiss-Cox Model 22 - Texas Wildcat
Curtiss-Cox Model 22 Texas Wildcat at the Morane-Saulnier factory in France. After the almost disastrous first flight of the monoplane Texas wildcat

United States Army Air Corps - USaC - Curtiss P-40
United States Army Air Corps (USaC) - Curtiss P-40 (Model 81). The first production standard, delivered with the stars and stripes on both wings, unusually

United States Navy - Curtiss 18T-2 A3325 on take-off as a floatplane. After retiring from the 1922 Curtiss Marine Trophy Race with mechanical trouble, the Navy had no urgent need for both 18Ts

de Havilland DH. 110 WG240 2nd prototype
de Havilland DH.110 WG240 2nd prototype at the 1952 SBAC Farnborough air-show, (1-7 September). WG 240 was flown by test pilot John Derry in the air display from 1-5 September

Royal Navy - de Havilland DH. 82 Queen Bee K8671
Royal Navy - de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee K8671 (msn 5204), being recovered by cruiser HMS Newcastle after a live-fire anti-aircraft gunnery practice

Percival Gull in the hangar at Heston, with wings folded and on trestles. Date: 1937

United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII

Royal Aircraft Factory F. E. 2 (second aircraft)
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2, powered by an air-cooled 70hp Renault V-8 engine, (R.A.F. - Royal Aircraft Factory), (F.E. - Farman Experimental)

Children wearing Swimeesy Buoy, invented two before in 1907. Date: 1909

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