Pilot Collection (#78)

Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats. Date 1911

A small dog dressed as a pilot ready for take off. He is surrounded by birds who find this hilarious. The caption reads: " What a get-up!" Date: 1928- 1929

Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902 - 1942), as a flying man. Shown here adjusting his parachute when preparing to leave for London by aeroplane after having paid an official visit to Yorkshire in

Spanish pilots prepare for an attack during WW2 Date: 1941

Silhouette of RAF OCTU officer

Peggy Salaman in court dress
Peggy Salamon, 19 year old aviator, who broke the record for the flight from England to Cape Town, South Africa in 1931, in court dress as a debutante the year before. Date: 1931

German pilots on alert, with Fokker triplanes, WW1
German pilots on alert, about to board their Fokker triplanes during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sopwith seaplane, Balkan Front, WW1
A Sopwith seaplane about to set off on a flight on the Balkan Front during the First World War. Seen here with the pilot in the cockpit and men wading in the sea around it. Date: 1914-1918

German Fokker D VII fighter planes, Flanders, WW1
German Fokker D VII single-seat fighter planes on an airfield in Flanders, with pursuit pilots and ground crew, towards the end of the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Flying Dress
A pilot dressed for a high- altitude flight. Equipped with parachute, harness, oxygen apparatus, telephone, wireless earphones, electrical system for heating clothing. Date: 1920s

Flying Rabbit
A model aeroplane with a rabbit as a pilot! Date: 1930s

German Albatros plane brought down, WW1
A German Albatros plane brought down by Captain Cecil King, MC DFC Croix de Guerre, of the 43 Squadron RAF during the First World War. Date: 1917-1918

British pilot getting into his plane, WW1
A British pilot about to get into his DH9 De Havilland biplane during the First World War. 1914-1918

American pilots near Toul, France, WW1
A group of seven American pilots who brought down enemy aircraft near Toul, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: July 1918

Macready and Kelly, non-stop coast to coast flight, USA
Lieutenant John A Macready and Lieutenant Oakley G Kelly, who were awarded the Mackay Trophy for the first non-stop USA coast-to-coast flight

First flight from the UK to Australia - The Crew
First flight from the UK to Australia in a Vickers Vimy plane. Sir Ross Macpherson Smith (second left) and his brother Sir Keith Macpherson Smith (far left)

British pilot shot down by Germans, WW1
A British pilot shot down by Germans is led across a muddy field during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Loop the Loop - Pegoud - Aviator
Adolphe Celestin Pegoud (1889-1915) - a pre-WWI French aviator who became a fighter ace. On 21st September 1913, as a test pilot for Louis Bleriot (in a Bleriot model XI monoplane)

Robinson Praised
Pilot W I Robinson, who downed a Zeppelin, is cheered by his comrades. Date: 3 September 1916

Doggy Aviator
An excited dog aviator at the wheel of his aeroplane. Date: early 1930s

New York by Helicopter
A helicopter pilot gets a fine aerial view of New York, U.S.A. Date: late 1960s

Aeroplane Pilot
A pilot jots down something in a notepad for a gentleman in a suit to read, before take-off. Date: 1930s

Aeroplane Pilots
The Captain and First Officer on the flight deck of the D.H. 91 Albatross Frobisher class aeroplane. Date: 1938

Female Pilot
A liberated female pilot takes a snapshot of herself on her windswept flight, with an automatic camera attached to an aeroplane wing! Date: 1930s

Aeroplane Radio Pilot
The Captain of H.P. 42 Heracles aeroplane, using a Marconi radio. Date: 1931

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

Avro biplane with pilot, WW1
An Avro (A V Roe) biplane with pilot sitting in the cockpit during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Last flight of Captain Ball in his SE5 biplane, WW1
An artists impression of the last flight of the British flying ace Captain Albert Ball (1896-1917) in his SE5 biplane, brought down over France by a German Albatros plane during the First World War

German Gotha biplane with crew, WW1
A German Gotha heavy bomber biplane, with crew, on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Christmas Eve on the Airway by Norman Keene
Jolly festive illustration by Norman Keene showing an aviator in an aeroplane greeting Father Christmas and his sleigh mid-air. Date: 1930

Winner of Schneider Trophy Race, Baltimore, USA
Lieutenant James A Doolittle standing on the pontoon of his Curtiss Racer, winner of the Schneider Trophy Cup Race, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: 26 October 1925

Italian pilots in Italo-Turkish War, Cyrenaica, Libya
Portraits of the first Italian pilots who took part in the Italo-Turkish War (1912-1913) in Cyrenaica, Libya. This war was the first in history which involved air attacks by aircraft. Date: 1912-1913

Two German pilots in Taube monoplane, WW1
Two German pilots in a Taube two-seater monoplane during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

C W A Scott as a little boy
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946) record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934

British seaplane preparing for flight, WW1
A British Royal Navy seaplane preparing for flight during the First World War, with the pilot in the cockpit and men up to their waists in the water. Date: 1914-1918

Fighter plane with crew, WW1
A British fighter FE2B biplane with crew during the First World War. The inscription on the side reads: Presented by Residents in the Punjab. Date: 1914-1918

Sopwith Baby seaplane in flight, WW1
A Sopwith Baby seaplane in flight during the First World War. It was a British single-seater tractor seaplane used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915. Date: 1915-1918

69th Squadron AFC setting out for night bombing, WW1
The crew of the 69th Squadron AFC (Australian Flying Corps) setting out in their RE8 biplane for night bombing from their hangar at Savy, northern France, during the First World War

British pilot in his biplane, WW1
A British pilot in the cockpit of his biplane during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

British pilots near Albert, northern France, WW1
British pilots of No. 15 Squadron handing in reports after flying over enemy lines, near Albert, northern France, during the First World War

C W A Scott
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946), record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934 together with T

Poster warning about safety on the airfield. Watch that prop. Careless walk costs lives. Showing a pilot losing his head by walking into a spinning propeller. 1940s

Georges Madon, French ace pilot during WW1
Georges Felix Madon (1892-1924), French ace pilot during the First World War, seen here in the cockpit of his plane. Date: circa 1914-1918

Lieutenant Guynemer, French military aviator, in flight
Lieutenant Georges-Marie Guynemer (1894-1917), famous French military aviator, who was killed in action during the First World War. Seen here in full flight. Date: 1915-1917

Air Scouts climbing on plane with Lord Olivier
Air Scouts climbing on a Fairey Albacore plane with Lieutenant/Sir Laurence Olivier. 1940s

Major Harvey-Kelly with his Renault aeroplane, Yorkshire
Major Hubert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly (1891-1917), World War I pilot credited with being the first British pilot to land in France after the declaration of war

Rene Paul Fonck, French aviator, in his SPAD plane
Rene Paul Fonck (1894-1953), French aviator during the First World War, known as the all-time Allied Ace of Aces. Seen here on an airfield in a French SPAD aeroplane

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