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Air Vehicle Collection (page 8)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Flying In Formation

Flying In Formation
June 1930: The RAFs 35th Squadron, flying in formation, during rehearsals for the Hendon Air Display. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Capital Flying Visit

Capital Flying Visit
1st August 1928: The flying boat Calcutta, lands on the Thames, outside the Houses of Parliament, after its flight from Rochester to Westminster. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Wash From Flying Boat

Wash From Flying Boat
9th June 1937: As she takes off in the Solent, near Southampton, the giant Empire flying boat Capella produces an enormous wash. As seen from a passenger seat

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Flying Low

Flying Low
12th February 1925: RAF aeroplanes making their presence felt in Egypt by flying low over farmland in Cairo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Flying Day

Flying Day
17th July 1926: Guests at a Flying Day held at Roehampton, London, inspecting an aeroplane. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Air Force Gunner

Air Force Gunner
September 1922: An Irish Air Force gunner getting into position in his bi-plane during the Irish Civil War. (Photo by Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Codys No 14

Codys No 14
August 1910: The aircraft flown by American aviator Commander Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Dayton Wright Plane

Dayton Wright Plane
September 1920: The Dayton-Wright flying machine entered into the Gordon Bennett air race of 1920. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Sanders Biplane

Sanders Biplane
3rd April 1911: The Sanders Biplane, with folding wings, on display at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Avro Scout

Avro Scout
16th March 1914: An Avro Scout biplane fitted with a 80hp Gnome engine, on display at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Olympia Aero Show

Olympia Aero Show
14th March 1914: Display stands at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Nieuport Scout

Nieuport Scout
16th March 1914: The Nieuport Military Scout plane, on display at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Calcutta Flying Boat

Calcutta Flying Boat
circa 1928: The flying boat Calcutta manufactured by the Short Bros company in Rochester England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Perry Flying Boat

Perry Flying Boat
16th March 1914: A Perry-Beadle flying boat on display at the Olympia Aero show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Farman Biplane

Farman Biplane
October 1909: Louis Paulman flying a Farman biplane at Blackpool. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Voisin

Voisin
May 1909: A Moore Brebazon Voisin being assembled at the Shorts Bros Factory, Sheppy, Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Aircraft Exhibition

Aircraft Exhibition
16th March 1914: Penny Beadle flying boat at the Olympia aircraft show, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: The Hampden

The Hampden
June 1938: A Handley Page bomber, the Hampden, on the airfield at Radlett, Hertfordshire. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: RAF Flamingo

RAF Flamingo
January 1940: An RAF De Havilland Flamingo. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Ready For The Off

Ready For The Off
circa 1920: Hot air balloons about to take off. The name Gordon Bennett, a wealthy American journalist who was a sponsor of ballooning, is clearly displayed on two of them. (Photo by M)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: R100 Mooring

R100 Mooring
21st May 1930: A mooring mast near St Hubert, Montreal to which the R 100 will be moored on completion of her transatlantic trip. (Photo by H. H. Humphries/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Bristol Scout Biplane

Bristol Scout Biplane
19th March 1914: A Bristol Scout biplane at the Olympia aircraft show in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Taube In Paris

Taube In Paris
circa 1915: A birdlike German Taube aircraft, on display at Les Invalides, Paris, during the height of the First World War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Racing Start

Racing Start
15th August 1931: One of the two flying-boats engaged in a race to the Red Sea and back, a Saunders- Roe A 7, about to take off from Felixstowe Seaplane Station, Kent. (Photo by A)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Schneider Entrant

Schneider Entrant
19th August 1929: A Gloster Napier 6, one of the aircraft with which Britain hopes to retain the 1929 Schneider Trophy, at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Pterodactyl Plane

Pterodactyl Plane
2nd July 1926: A tailless plane, the Pterodactyl in flight during rehearsals for the Royal Air Force Display and Pageant at Hendon, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Viper Autogiro

Viper Autogiro
20th October 1927: A British C 8D Viper Autogiro at Hamble airfield in Hampshire. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Fitting Gun Sights

Fitting Gun Sights
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, fitting controls and calibrating the gun sights of the Bristol Bulldog

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Ballooning Race

Ballooning Race
25th May 1907: Ballons are brought out for the Ballooning Ranelagh Race for the Harbord Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Aviation Meet

Aviation Meet
Motor Car stuck in mud on Aviation Ground at the Lanmark Avaition Meet

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Plane Parts

Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship Balloon

Airship Balloon
circa 1930: The balloon of an airship when inflated floats in its hangar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Plane Crash

Plane Crash
A crowd gathered around the wreckage of Lincoln Beacheys crashed aeroplane, at Ascot Park, Los Angeles, California

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Frame Of Zeppelin

Frame Of Zeppelin
February 1919: The wooden frame of a zeppelin under construction at Short Brothers Works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Olympia Aero Show

Olympia Aero Show
14th March 1914: Display stands at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Dornier Flying Boat

Dornier Flying Boat
circa 1930: The Do R4 Dornier Flying Boat invented by German pioneer Claude Dornier (1884 - 1969). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Point Of Impact

Point Of Impact
2nd October 1916: A group of men cluster round a dent in the grass caused by a falling body at a zeppelin crash site in Potters Bar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Take Off

Take Off
March 1916: A bi-plane taking off from the airfield at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Bi-Plane Parts

Bi-Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings and propeller of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Plane Parts

Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Bi-Plane

Bi-Plane
March 1916: A bi-plane on the airfield at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Stunt Flying

Stunt Flying
Irish aviator Francis McClean (1876 - 1955) flies his Short seaplane through Tower Bridge, over the River Thames, 10th August 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Schneider Cup

Schneider Cup
Crowds watching the Schneider Trophy International Seaplane Race from Bournemouth pier. The race was won by Italian Guido Janello in his Savoia S13 plane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Hurlingham Balloons

Hurlingham Balloons
Hot air balloons prepared for a race at Hurlingham sports ground, near London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Sopwith Tabloid

Sopwith Tabloid
Aviator Howard Pixton in a Sopwith Tabloid. The aircraft won the second Schneider Trophy race in Monaco. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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