Air Craft Collection (#2)

X-15 rocket plane on display at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC

HAWKER HURRICANE 1
Though lacking the glamour of the Spitfire, the plainer Hurricane is more widely used, downing more German aircraft than the rest of the defences combined

Air traffic visualisation. Computer artwork of air traffic over the USA. This image is one frame from an animation of air traffic over a 24-hour period

Cover design, Jersey Airways brochure
Cover design, Jersey Airways Ltd brochure. circa 1934

Cover design, Popular Aviation and Aeronautics Magazine, showing a passenger plane coming in to land at an airport at night. January 1929

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, showing a passenger airliner flying above a cruise liner. With a list of principal agents, fares and route map. 20th century

The Plane - and the Beautiful by Albert Bailey
A group of young women, attired in elegant swimwear, wave to an aeroplane flying up ahead. Date: 1927

Model plane
Model aeronautics Date: c. 1930s

HMS Repulse with Sopwith Pup, WW1
Stern view of HMS Repulse showing a Sopwith Pup biplane on the aft turret during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

Sopwith Camel biplanes on an airfield, WW1
A long line of Sopwith Camel biplanes of No. 148 Aero Squadron USAS (United States Air Service) on an airfield during the First World War, with pilots and ground crew. Date: 8 August 1918

Sopwith F1 Camel biplane on an airfield, WW1
A British Sopwith F1 Camel fighter biplane on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1918

Winston Churchill and his daughter unite for the war effort
Mr. Churchill at a London gun site during a raid:drawing made on the spot

Tupolev 154 aircraft, Russia
Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft taking off from an airport runway. This aircraft is a jet airliner, designed to carry hundreds of passengers on medium and long-haul flights

Soviet Pe-2 bomber and pilot, 1944
Soviet Pe-2 bomber and pilot. The pilot, Grigory Pasynkov, held the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Photographed in December 1944, in the St Petersburg region of Russia

Military aircraft cockpit with head-up display. Photographed at the 2009 Paris Air Show

Departure board at Paris airport
Departure board at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Photographed in 2009

Aeroplane landing at sunset, Canada
Aeroplane landing at sunset. Boeing 747 landing at sunset at Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, Canada

WASHINGTON, D. C. USA. Aircraft displayed in Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
WASHINGTON, D.C. USA. Aircraft displayed in Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

2011 Goodwood Revival, row of Spitfires
2011 Goodwood Revival Meeting, row of Spitfire Aircraft

Napier Heston Racer G-AFOK with Sabre I Date: 1943

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Aviation in 1908, the aeroplane of M. Wilbur Wright

Poster for Farman airlines
Poster advertising Farman airlines flights from Paris to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia

Dockyard Workers on board HMS Coventry, Second World War
Photograph showing dockyard workers, including a rivetters boy working with a portable forge, refitting HMS Coventry during the Second World War, 1940

Junkers 52 Aircraft; Second World War, 1940
Cutaway diagram of a Junkers Ju-52 transport aircraft, with a cargo of 18 troops, 1940

Douglas Dakota picking up a glider, Normandy; Second World W
Illustration showing a Douglas Dakota, C-47 Skytrain, swooping down with a hook trailing to pick up a Waco glider, Normandy, France, 1944

Aerial view of Duxford Aerodrome, now Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American Air Museum, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Airplanes taxiing, Don Muang airport, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia

Spirit of St. Louis, Stafford Air & Space Museum, Historic Route 66, Weatherford City, Oklahoma, United States of America, North America

Microlight (ultralight) airplane, Florida, United States of America, North America

Aeroplane of Cebu Pacific, a low cost airline, Puerto Princesa Airport, Palawan, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Restaurant with old DC3 in the garden, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

Gatwick Airport, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Soviet Air Attack
Finland : Soviet aircraft attack a Finnish supply train of elk-drawn sledges : the Finnish troops themselves are on skis

Bristol Brabazon
Designed to fly non-stop London-NY, the Bristol 167 is the largest civil aircraft in the air - wingspan 70m, length 54m. It fails for economic not technical reasons

Mignet & Flying Flea
French aircraft designer shown with his very successful Pou du Ciel (= Flying Flea )

Aircraft poster
French poster depicting a variety of aeroplanes and airships

USA, Alaska, Nondalton. Cessna floatplane parked on still waters of Six Mile Lake, Valhalla Lodge

USA, North America, Minnesota
AT-6 airplane on the runway at Fleming Field

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd (PS & IOWA), Daily Air Services to Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Plymouth, Portsmouth & Southsea, London. Book Here. 20th century

Flight simulation of a harrier jump-jet

The final flight of R 101, she crashed the next day

Women workers, World War I
British women aeroplane workers in the Midlands, acetylene welding frame lugs for planes during World War I

National Air and Space Museum, the worlds most visited museum, Washington D.C. United States of America, North America

Beach at Maho Bay and low flying aircraft approaching the runway of Princess Juliana International airport, St. Martin (St. Maarten), Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

German Air Spotters Book
A handbook issued to German forces, enabling them to distinguish aircraft types so, if possible, not to shoot down their own aircraft

Farman Biplane EGP_22662_53
A group of men watching as two men take their seats in a Farman biplane at Bournemouth in 1910. The pilot has been identified as Claude Graham-White, pioneer of aerial reconnaissance

British airman dropping a bomb by hand, WW1
A British airman dropping a bomb by hand, in midair, during the First World War. The message on the bomb reads: Hun, Bulgar, Share This Ration. Date: 1914-1918

Wing walking EPW037626
Wing walking without a harness on an Aviation Tours Ltd Avro 504K. Photographed in April 1932. Some damage on negative - produced from copy negative. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

Vickers aircraft EPW001728
Aerial view of what appears to be a Vickers Vimy Commercial aircraft in flight (with the unusual registration 17-X on the tail fin)

Aircraft Observer Post, WWII
Aircraft Observer Post, during World War II. Observers on lookout duty behind sandbags

Lightning EAW187844
RAF English Electric Lightning F1 flying over the sea in 1968. The Lightning served with the RAF as a fighter or interceptor between 1959 and 1988

Spirit of St Louis EPW018121
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St Louis coming in to land at Croydon Aerodrome, 29th May 1927 having flown in from Brussels

Flying boat berth, Southampton EAW023211
BOAC FLYING BOAT SERVICES, Southampton Water. Flying boat services had been operating from Southampton since 1919

World War I aircraft re-enactment N070971
FESTIVAL OF HISTORY, Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire. World War I triplane in flight. 2007 aerial re-enactment. tri-plane

Hurricane aircraft DP035687
RAF COLTISHALL, Scottow, Norfolk. A lone Hurricane aircraft, many of which were based at RAF Coltishall, makes a final fly past during the closing ceremony

Heathrow Airport a073304
HEATHROW AIRPORT, Greater London. A BOAC aircraft with boarding steps to left at Heathrow Airport. Photograph by John Gay in 1970

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing two criminals in a red car being pursued by two policemen in a biplane

1st International Aircraft Exhibition Poster, 12-28th October 1935 Milan Sample Fair. Showing a group of eagles watching a plane speeding past. 1935

Officers of 207 Squadron with Handley Page bomber, WW1
Officers of 207 Squadron of the Independent Air Force in a group photo in front of a Handley Page bomber plane during the First World War. Date: 1918

AFC Handley Page biplane at Haifa, Palestine, WW1
A Handley Page biplane belonging to the AFC (Australian Flying Corps) at the aerodrome at Haifa, North Palestine (Ottoman Empire), during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Sopwith F1 Camel biplane on an airfield, WW1
A British Sopwith F1 Camel fighter biplane on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

British BE2C biplane on an airfield, WW1
A British BE2C armoured biplane on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British RE8 biplane and pilot, WW1
A British Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 two-seater biplane with the pilot in the cockpit, used by the Royal Flying Corps for reconnaissance and bombing during the First World War

French balloon shot down by German aircraft, WW1
A French balloon shot down by a German aircraft during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British BE 12 biplane on an airfield, WW1
A British Royal Aircraft Factory BE 12 single-seater biplane on an airfield, used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It had a 150hp RAF 4a engine. Date: 1915-1918

HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, WW1
HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, launched 1916, served during the latter part of the First World War, converted to use as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s

Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit firing at aircraft, WW1
Two men belonging to a Motorcycle Machine Gun Unit with a Scott motorcycle during the First World War, using a Vickers machine gun to fire at aircraft. Date: 1914-1918

Alexander Yakovlev, aircraft designer
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906-1989), Soviet aircraft designer, in military uniform and holding an aircraft model. In 1932, Yakovlev founded what became the the Yakovlev design bureau

Boeing 747-8 engine cowling
Boeing 747-8 inboard engine with cowling open for maintenance. Photographed at the 2011 Paris Air Show

German WWII ramjet engine blueprint. This design, for the propulsor ramjet engine to be mounted on top of a Dornier Do 217 E-2 heavy bomber, dates from 1942

Hawker Tempest V powered by a Sabre IIB NV768, with ducted spinner aircraft propeller

Map - Schneider Trophy Air Race 1931
Map of the course of the Schneider Trophy Air Race - 1931. Won by Flight Lieutenant John Boothman in a Supermarine S6B, S1515 at 340 mph on 13th September 1931

To the Death! - A Glorious Incident of Aerial Warfare on the Western Front, showing a British biplane crashing into a German plane in a dogfight during the First World War

The Imperial Japanese Navy, Second World War, 1941
Illustration showing the British estimate of the strength of the Imperial Japanese Navy, during the Second World War, 1941

Airport Bus, 1927
Passengers for the Continent leave the Charles Street head- quarters of Imperial Airways, and board the Imperial Airways motor=car which will whisk them to Croydon air-station

HMS Vindictive aircraft carrier, WW1
HMS Vindictive, a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser (then called HMS Cavendish) converted to an experimental aircraft carrier and renamed

Sopwith Pup taking off from HMS Repulse, WW1
A Sopwith Pup biplane taking off from the B turret of HMS Repulse during the First World War. Date: October 1918

HMS Hogue, British armoured cruiser
HMS Vindex, a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy during the First World War, previously a fast passenger ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet

Messerschmitt M. E. 109
Made in Germany, Finished in England. Messerschmitt M.E. 109. All proceeds go to our local Spitfire fund

The British attack on rebels in the Sultanate of Brunei
Running from a transport aircraft after arriving at Anduki airfield: Commando troops of the Queens Own Highlanders

RAF workshops WWII
A man working on a lathe in an RAF aircraft workshop during World War II

Imperial Airways poster by John Hassall
Humorous poster for Imperial Airways showing proof of their slogan, " Safety then Comfort"

Pilot and plane AFL03_aerofilms_c19951
Pilot getting into plane. Aerial photographer. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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"Exploring the Skies: A Captivating Journey through Aircraft History" The Airbus A330 cockpit - where dreams take flight, and pilots become captains of the sky. Step back in time with the Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster - a nostalgic glimpse into early aviation adventures. Witness the awe-inspiring sight of Spitfires soaring over Forth, reminding us of their heroic role during World War II. Relive the excitement of the Wembley Cup Final 1935 EPW046905 as aircraft enthusiasts gather to witness both football glory and airborne marvels. Marvel at the sleek Westland Whirlwind aeroplanes that once ruled the skies with their speed and agility. "Back Them Up" - an empowering slogan urging support for our brave aviators who risked it all for freedom and safety. Transport yourself to Croydon Airport 1934, a bustling hub where planes took off on daring expeditions across continents. Formation Fighting WWI - a captivating image capturing aerial acrobatics amidst wartime chaos, showcasing bravery and skill in equal measure. Discover unexpected connections between industries as Bentley car and aircraft propellers merge seamlessly in pursuit of innovation (a087923). The Jaguar aircraft DP035691 embodies grace and power, symbolizing mankind's relentless quest to conquer new heights in aviation technology. Gaze upon a majestic Passenger Plane Imperial – an icon representing luxury travel above clouds, making distances seem insignificant compared to boundless horizons ahead.