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Airplanes Collection (page 6)

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Background imageAirplanes Collection: Handley Page Plane

Handley Page Plane
28th September 1912: Royal Naval Reserve men in charge of a Handley Page Machine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Focke-Wulf

Focke-Wulf
6th November 1931: A German Focke-Wulf monoplane makes an appearance at Hanworth Aerodrome in Middlesex. Because its tail is positioned on the nose of the aircraft, it will neither stall nor spin

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Captured Plane

Captured Plane
25th June 1917: The opening ceremony of the National Welfare Exhibition. A captured German Fokker monoplane is on display. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Gale Force

Gale Force
November 1918: Remains of a plane and a hangar after a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Gale Damage

Gale Damage
November 1918: Wrecked planes as a result of a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Up It Comes

Up It Comes
21st November 1918: A British bi-plane being hoisted out of the water after an accident during the German surrender at Scapa Flow, the British naval base in the Orkneys. (Photo by A. R)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Blockade Helpers

Blockade Helpers
1st July 1948: Bristol Hercules powered Handley Page Hastings C1 transport aircraft lined up at the factory airfield at Radlett, Hertfordshire, prior to delivery to RAF Transport Command

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Transatlantic Flight

Transatlantic Flight
June 1919: Transatlantic plane at Plymouth, seen from a boat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Smashed Aeroplanes

Smashed Aeroplanes
8th November 1913: Two army aeroplanes smashed on Salisbury Plane when the descending plane crashed into a Henri Farman which was about to start. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Bellamy Plane

Bellamy Plane
9th March 1907: Adjustments being made to the Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands, Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Bleriot In Flight

Bleriot In Flight
5th August 1912: Louis Bleriot (1872-1936) piloting his plane on the return journey from Lowestoft. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Shipping Plane

Shipping Plane
8th July 1912: A crowd on the beach at Portsmouth watch the biplane T2 being shipped on a lighter by the Fleet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Stunt Plane

Stunt Plane
25th September 1913: The Bleriot monoplane used by Pegoud when he flew upside down at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Flying Failure

Flying Failure
19th September 1911: An armoured plane with cantilever wings and a Leon Levavasseur designed Antoinette engine which proved too heavy to fly more than a few yards

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Doncaster Flight

Doncaster Flight
19th October 1909: A plane flying past the first pylon in the Leeds Cup, during Doncaster Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: A Failed Flight

A Failed Flight
18th June 1910: Grahame White crashes his plane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: In Flight

In Flight
July 1910: Planes flying over the hangars at a Bournemouth Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Codys Machine

Codys Machine
August 1910: The aircraft flown by Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. American-born British aviator Samuel Cody (1862 - 1913)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Bellamy Plane

Bellamy Plane
9th March 1907: Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands airfield at Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Bellamy Plane

Bellamy Plane
18th June 1908: Bellamys aeroplane at trials in Petersham Meadows showing a front view of the propellers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Brooklands Plane

Brooklands Plane
20th September 1910: McFie bi-plane at Brooklands Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes Collection: Plane Crash

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

Background imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes 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 imageAirplanes Collection: Overhead Plane

Overhead Plane
23rd September 1916: Visitors to a Zeppelin crash site in Essex watch a low flying aeroplane pass overhead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: US Navy Curtiss NC4

US Navy Curtiss NC4
June 1919: A US Navy Curtiss NC-4 at Plymouth, one of three planes to attempt the first transatlantic crossing. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: London To Paris

London To Paris
An Airco DH4A biplane, G-EAJC, of the British airline, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, about to leave Hounslow Heath Aerodrome (later Heathrow), London, for Le Bourget, Paris

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Crashed Triplane

Crashed Triplane
May 1919: The trial flight of the Tarrant Triplane ends in failure. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Avro Lancastrian

Avro Lancastrian
12th July 1946: A Lancastrian aircraft at the trade show at Handley Page airfield in Radlett, Hertfordshire. The aircraft is fitted with two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet engines

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Dornier DO X

Dornier DO X
24th May 1932: A Dornier DO.X flying boat (D-1929) at Southampton (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: British Air Heroes

British Air Heroes
circa 1926: The sea planes of Captain W H Pulford and his companions alighting at the Lee on Solent after flying 14, 000 miles from Cairo to the Cape. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Sea Take Off

Sea Take Off
circa 1939: An Osprey plane taking off from an aircraft carrier. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Bristol Brabazon

Bristol Brabazon
circa 1949: The first air to air picture of the giant Bristol Brabazon in flight. Once the largest air liner in the world, the Brabazon had a fuel capacity of 13, 000 gallons

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Children Watch Planes

Children Watch Planes
29th June 1928: Schoolchildren watch bombers rehearsing for the Royal Airforce display and pageant at Hendon Aerodrome, London. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Air Race Rest

Air Race Rest
23rd April 1910: Claude Grahame-Whites Farman plane attracts a large crowd at Hademore, after descending for a rest during the London - Manchester air race of 1910

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Dockside Lunch

Dockside Lunch
circa 1939: Dockers taking lunch under the bows of the Union Castle liner Capetown Castle at Southampton. Moored near by is an Imperial Airways flying boat the Camilla. (Photo by A)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Princess Flying Boat

Princess Flying Boat
19th August 1952: Holidaymakers at Cowe, Isle of Wight, watching the launching of a 140 ton Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat prior to flight trials

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Factory Visit

Factory Visit
9th January 1930: Visitors to the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester where the all-steel fighting planes Bristol Bulldogs are constructed

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Hauling Horatius

Hauling Horatius
13th December 1935: A tiny tractor at Croydon airport pulling the giant Handley Page air-liner, Horatius to the hangar after a Paris flight. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Painting Wings

Painting Wings
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, spraying identification markings onto the wings of the Bristol Bulldog

Background imageAirplanes Collection: DH Dragon Rapide

DH Dragon Rapide
22nd March 1935: The Air Councils latest plane, a De Havilland Dragon Rapide, making its trial flights at the De Havilland Aerodrome at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. (Photo by J. A)

Background imageAirplanes Collection: Airspeed Consul

Airspeed Consul
30th September 1946: An Airspeed Consul civilian passenger plane on show at the display of planes for the businessman at White Waltham Airfield, near Maidenhead



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