Pilot Collection (page 4)

War - World War II - RAF - Thanksgiving flight over London - The leader in many an immortal battle prepares to lead the fly-past

John Peters and Adrian Nichol RAF air crew who were shot down and held prisoners in Iraq during the Gulf War

Berlin Air Lift 1948 A German woman shows her appreciation to a British pilot During the Allied powers response to the Russian blockade was in essence simple yet in practice extremely complicated

The helicopter heads towards the landing platform on the stern of HMS Aurora during a NATO Exercise March 1965

Colonels F Cody pioneer aviator in his aircraft, September 1912

Miss Hariet Quimbey who was the first woman in the UK to get a pilots licence and the first woman to fly the English Channel solo seen here after crossing the channel

Captain Brian Trubshaw Concorde Pilot pictured after being presented with Air League Founders Medal. May 1971

Royal Navy Ships Aircraft Carrier HMS Victorious August 1959. The pilot and navigator in a deHavilland Sea Venom aircraft prepare to take off on a sortie

N. A. T. O training exercises in Norway. February 1966
N.A.T.O training exercises in Norway. February 1966

English aviator Amy Johnson pictured soon after her dramatic 9 o clock arrival at Croydon aerodrome, London as she returns from her historic 11, 000 mile solo trip from Britain to Australia

English actress Shirley Anne Field in the cockpit of a helicopter. June 1980

RAF pilots report the position of enemy troops on the Western Front during World War One. April 1918

Prince George gets out of the cockpit of an RAF plane after flying to Hull. October 1929

Sir S. Hoare and Sir J. Salmond on the new "secret"flying boat at Cromer 1925
Sir S. Hoare and Sir J. Salmond on the new " secret" flying boat at Cromer 1925

Miss Hariet Quimbey who was the first woman in the UK to get a pilots licence and the first woman to fly the English Channel solo. April 1912

Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Victorious August 1959 A Fleet Air Arm Supermarine Scimitar aircraft pilot waits to be called forward for his launche from the flight deck

A repatriated British airman is welcomed home by friends and neighbours during WW2 1943

A pilot of the Royal Air Force catched up on some sleep between missions during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War August 1940

Robert Stanford Tuck, fighter ace from WW2, standing next to a row of hurricanes and spitfires to be used in the film The Battle of Britain 19th April 1968

Fleet Air Arm Pilots return from Korean War - A pilot is greeted by his wife with a kiss on the airfield after returning from the Korean War

US troops in England during the Second World War Captain Bender of California celebrates with crew members of the US Eighth Air Force after finishing his 25th operation March 1944

Mad Major Christopher Draper with his Auster aircraft. May 1950

The Yakovlev Yak -11 was first produced in 1946; this Russian two-seat military trainer with retractable undercarriage was powered by one 730hp Shvetsov Ash-21 engine

A Spitfire Mark 9 on the runway at Biggin Hill during the airshow. May 1975

Martin Bakes mobile ejection seat trainer on show at the Farnborough Air Display Setember 1954

Crew of the R101 airship picture at the Royal Airship Works Cardington in Bedfordshire. October 1929

Up, up and away in a Dream Machine: Clear the runway, its magnificent Cliff in his flying machine. " All my own work, " said amateur inventor, Clifford Moffat

Farnborough 1976: The 1976 Air Show at Farnborough, Hampshire, began on Sunday (5-9-76). The Bede B.D. 5 J.: This is the smallest jet plane in the world measuring 12.4 feet long

Air record challenge: Another attack on the worlds air speed record is shortly to be made. Flight-Lieut D Arcy Greig, the R.A.F. high speed pilot, is the challenger

High Flyer Prince Charles at the controls of a helicopter in September 1974 during his term of service in the Royal Navy. P001044

John Judge, a test pilot seen here at the controls of his Wallis autogyro shortly before the aircraft crashed

Return of the R34 airship from its Atlantic flight Commander Major George Scott July 1919 P000955

A Gloster Napier III landed in the water during the Schneider Cup trophy race circa 1929

Mr Jim and Mrs. J Mollison, otherwise known as Amy Johnson, standing beside the De Havilland Dragon plane " Seafarer" in which they made on East to West crossing of the Atlantic

C. W. A. Scott, who achieved prominence as an aviator in 1931 when he flew from England to
C.W.A. Scott, who achieved prominence as an aviator in 1931 when he flew from England to Australia in a De Havilland " Moth" taking 9 days 4 hours 11 minutes

Mrs. J. A. Mollison better known as Amy Johnson greeted by enthuiastic crowds after one of
Mrs. J.A. Mollison better known as Amy Johnson greeted by enthuiastic crowds after one of her flights. Circa 1933

American aviator Captain Charles Lindbergh with French President Gaston Doumergue following his crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from USA to France in the Spirit of St Louis. 1927

Clear the runway, its magnificent Cliff in his flying machine. Cliff, 42, set to work in his backyard at Sawston, Cambridgeshire, to get the thing off the drawing board and into the air

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" is the title of a new 20th Century-fox film but it was a lady who tested the first of five aeroplanes of the 1910 period of the story now being

Miss Amy Johnson replying at the Civic Reception in Melbourne Town Hall, Australia. The previous month, the English aviation pioneer had set off from Croydon airport

Miss Amy Johnson acknowledging the enthusiastic welcome given to her at the Geelong racecourse in Victoria, Australia after her record breaking solo flight from London to Darwin June 1930

Lancashire and Yorkshire Society welcome aviator Amy Johnson to Melbourne, Australia at the Moonee Valey Rececourse on 16th June 1930

A pilot in his plane on the runway at Biggin Hill during the airshow. May 1975

The QE2 Returns. The QE2 returned to Southampton today after a fantastically successful round-the-world crise. In the 92 days since she left on January 4 she has visited 24 ports in 19 countries

Atlantic Fliers at Cryodon. Captain Erroll Boyd, Mr. Lavine and Lt. H. Connor. October 1930 P004315

A helicopter over flies New York to monitor the Manhattan Traffic 14th February 1964. America

Atlantic Flight in Round-The-World Attempt The monoplane " Pride of Detroit", piloted by Mr. N. S. Brock, and bearing Mr. E. R

Crew of the VC10 who will take Queen Elizabeth II on a state visit to South America She will be in Brazil and then on to Chile. October 1968 P004604

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