Airforce Collection (#12)

Paris, France - Ecole Militaire. Date: 1830

2 French Airforce Officers in conversation. French School

Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning ops
Round the clock with a bomber squadron: planning operations on the enemy - the start and return. The bomber pilot and captain finds his squadron is down for operations

Round the clock with a bomber squadron. The bomber pilot and captain starts his day with a wash; he sets out with his crew on the back of a vehicle; the crew climb a ladder to board the aircraft

Womens Royal Air Force -- Now the day is over
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women relaxing, waiting for transport home at the end of the day -- Now the Day is Over. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Sailmakers
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women at work making sails for the aeroplane wings. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Dopers Tea
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women painters and dopers having a tea break, while one toasts a slice of bread at the open door of a hot stove

Womens Royal Air Force -- The Dawn of Aviation
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a woman looking up at three biplanes in the sky, with a sunrise behind -- The Dawn of Aviation -- with the motto below

Womens Royal Air Force -- Pay Parade
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women queueing up to receive their pay from male officers. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Class! SHUN
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a male officer calling the women to attention. Class! SHUN!! Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Rest Room
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women relaxing in the Rest Room -- two are dancing, another is playing the piano. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Fortune Teller
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing four women consulting a Fortune Teller colleague, with cards laid out on the table. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Running Repairs
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing three women fixing their makeup at a small mirror -- Running Repairs. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Signwriting
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a woman sitting in an aircraft hangar, Signwriting in the Flights on the fuselage of a biplane. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Lunch Time
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women during Lunch Time in the WRAF Hut. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Painters Shop
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women at work in the Painters Shop, painting RAF markings on aeroplane wings. Date: 1919-1920

Cover design, Womens Royal Air Force
Cover design, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force, by Gertrude A George. With a circular vignette of a woman in uniform, saluting. Date: published 1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- The Orders for the Day
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women reading a notice on the wall to find out what are the Orders for the Day. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Roll Call
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women during Roll Call. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- The Transport
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women standing in the back of an open lorry -- The Transport. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Waiting for the Transport
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women in warm overcoats, waiting for the transport at 7.45 am. It cometh not, she said. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Signing On
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women Signing On for service -- we plunge into the unknown. Date: 1919-1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Savoy Hotel
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women at the Savoy Hotel on 7 April 1919, when Queen Mary presented prizes to the winners in the Womens War Service Competitions

Womens Royal Air Force -- Embarkation, Winter
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women getting into the back of a lorry -- Embarkation, Winter. Date: 1919-1920

Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force (Immobile) -- possibly the title page. Date: published 1920

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945). A squad of British aircraft model SPITFIRE flying.(October 1939)

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918). Aerial battle between french (Model Nieuport 17) and german
WORLD WAR I (1914-1918).Aerial battle between French (Model Nieuport 17) and German (Albatros D-III) aircrafts

The Airfield, 1918 (w / c on paper)
XIR178713 The Airfield, 1918 (w/c on paper) by Flameng, Francois (1856-1923); Musee de l Armee, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

An Aeroplane Taking Off, 1913 (w / c on paper)
XIR178712 An Aeroplane Taking Off, 1913 (w/c on paper) by Flameng, Francois (1856-1923); Musee de l Armee, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

Biplanes Flying
1923: Biplanes of the RAF in flight at Hendon Air Pageant. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Bi-Plane Crew
A side view of the pilot and co-pilot in a Vickers F.B.5 Biplane which was dubbed the Gunbus when it was first used on the Western Front. The plane remained in service until 1916

Vickers FB5
A close up of the observer in a Vickers F.B.5 Biplane who is armed with a.303 Lewis gun. The plane remained in service until 1916. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Vickers FB5
A Vickers F.B.5 Biplane which was dubbed the Gunbus when it was first used on the Western Front. The plane remained in service until 1916. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Morane-Saulnier Monoplane
A Morane-Saulnier monoplane used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Zeppelin Wreckage
British Sentries guard the wreckage of a German Zeppelin airship brought down at Potters Bar, England, 2nd October 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wrecked Zeppelin
The wreckage, including one of the engines, of a German Zeppelin airship, 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Handley Page V / 1500
The four-engined Handley Page V/1500, circa 1918. Designed to carry out bombing raids on German targets from bases in Britain, it was arguably the first practical strategic bomber

Curtiss Sociable Triplane
Colorized photograph of Curtiss L-1 variant Speed Scout sociable triplane, 1916. The plane was developed for use in World War One but never saw combat

Bristol Scout
A Bristol Scout D used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Zeppelin Flies Over The Balkans
A German zeppelin dirigible flies over a river cutting through the rugged Balkan terrain littered with smoldering fires during World War I, 1910s

Airman Stands Near Fokker DR-1s
A German soldier stands near a row of Fokker DR-1 tri-planes on an airfield, Germany, 1910s. The DR-1 was designed by aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker, known as the Flying Dutchman

R. A. F. Birthday
A Bristol fighter of 22 Squadron flies over Vert Galand aerodrome, France, on the inauguration day of the British Royal Air Force, 1st April 1918

Captured Fokker
A German Fokker E III monoplane being packed after being captured by French troops, March 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nieuport XXIII In Flight
A French-built Nieuport XXIII reconnaissance plane, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Handley-Page Bomber
A British Handley-Page 0/400 bomber, circa 1918. The twin-engined aircraft entered service in 1918 and this example was one of several converted for use as passenger planes after World War I

Junkers In Russia
A Junkers Ju 52 of the German Luftwaffe on a German airfield in Russia, flooded after the thaw, 1942. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

WW2 - Keep em Flying - Off the Beam - It looks as if our plucky pilot was a bit out of line and is now facing the consequences!! Date: 1942

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