Aircraft Collection

A striking picture of Cataline flying boat taking off on the 24-hour patrol over the Atlantic. They perform splendidly, searching for U-boats and guarding Atlantic convoys

A recent picture taken in Wellington Harbour shows a short Sunderland flying boat of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and a Fokker Friendship belonging to the National Airways Corporation of New

At Stag Lane Aerodrome, Hendon. Hon Lady Bailey ( wife of Sir Abe Bailey ), who pilots a " Moth " plane. 25 February 1927

Blazing air mail route across Atlantic Lufthansa Dornier flying boat Zephir resting on the water at Port Washington, New York after completing the first non-stop flight from the Azores

The British Sopwith patrol seaplane with the 225 hp Sunbeam engine. 1914

Sopwith Baby - reconnaisance / light bomber
Sopwith Baby - reconnaisance/light bomber. 100 ordered by the Navy and served for the rest of the war at coastal bases and seaplane carriers - Channel, North Sea, Egypt, Italy and Palestine

Sopwith folding - wing, two - seater seaplane with a 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape engine. 1914

Passengers boarding a flying boat the Bermuda Sky Queen leaving Poole for America on 1 October 1947. eTopFoto

British seaplane circling British warships circa 1916

Aerial view of Imperial Airways flying boat Centaurus on the water at Rochester

A German seaplane comes down on the water to stop a British sailing ship. 1914 - 1918

First pictures from the air of the combined composite plane Mayo composite plane comprises linked together flying boat Maia and seaplane Mercury forming an eight - engined biplane

Blackburn Iris Mk III S1263 was a five-seat long-range maritime reconnaissance flying boat built for the Royal Air Force in flight with coastline behind 1929

Dornier RsIII 4 x 260 hp Maybach engines. Flying boat. 1916

Landing on water the Dornier Do 26 was an all-metal gull winged flying boat produced before and during World War II by Dornier Flugzeugwerke of Germany

Imperial Airways flying boat Swanage moored at Southampton ready for her flight to Alexandria to replace crashed flying boat City of Khartoum

Great Britain secures Schneider trophy permanently when Flight Lieutenant John Boothman mades record for course Photo shows Flight Lieutenant Boothmans plane rounding a pylon at West Wittering

Hawaii Mars the worlds largest flying boat with a wingspan of 200 feet will
" Hawaii Mars " the worlds largest flying boat with a wingspan of 200 feet will be christened on 21 July and go on duty in the Pacific with the US Navy Photo shows plane on runway with a

Aerial view of the Canopus, first of the new 17 1 / 2 tons Imperial Airways flying
Aerial view of the Canopus, first of the new 17 1/2 tons Imperial Airways flying boats for service on the Empire air routes leaving Rochester, Kent on her maiden flight

Schoolboys examine a model of the Mayo trans Atlantic flying boat at the Imperial Airways exhibition at the Science Museum, London

himalayan empire flying boat. Undated

Cobham flies over Thames - flight to Australia and back - ? TopFoto

The Fairey Delta II which shattered the world air speed record by reaching 1, 132 miles an hour over a nine-mile course between Chichester and Ford, Sussex

Pleasure flights at Eastbourne, Sussex

Great Britains Schneider trophy team together at Calshot on Southampton water L - R Flight Lieutenant E J L Hope, Lieutenant G L Brinton, RN Flight Lieutenant F W Long

Londoners had their first view of the squadron of US Army Air Force Super Fortresses when it flew across the city on the first of two demonstration flights today

Sir Sefton Brancker (centre) with Mr Alan Cobham ( pilot ), left, and his machanic Elliott before their departure from Hendon on a journey to India. 20 November 1924

At Croydon Aerodrome. Mrs Spencer Cleaver and her pilot Captain Drew before leaving in their Gypsy Moth " Will O The Wisp " for their flight to India and back. 7 March 1929

Left to right;s Perry, pilot and a Russian airman testing aeroplanes purchased for Russia

Stag Lane Aerodrome. Pride of Youth the Giant Moth in which Sir Alan Cobham gave 10
Stag Lane Aerodrome. " Pride of Youth" the Giant Moth in which Sir Alan Cobham gave 10, 000 children free flights during 5 months tour of Great Britain. 7 October 1929

Notable new aircraft on trial. Much interest attached to the trial flight made at Farnborough by the Aldershot Club Biplane 13 February 1923

At Stag Lane Aerodrome. Mrs Spencer Cleaver before leaving in their Gypsy Moth " Will O The Wisp " for their flight to India and back. 4 March 1929

At Stag Lane Aerodrome, Hendon. Sir John Rhodes. 23 July 1926

Mrs Alan Cobham leaving Waddon Aerodrome to meet her husband on the return from his great flight. 13 March 1926

The Italian round the world flight. The Dornier Wal seaplane which left Pisa on July 24, flown by Signor Anotonio Locatelli. It is due in London on Saturday. 24 July 1924

George Duller, the jockey, with the Aeroplane on which he arrived at Gatwick Steeplechases ( formerly the property of Steve Donoghue ). 7 January 1927

Sir Alan Cobhams return from his World flight. 1 October 1925

R A F Empire Day rehearsal at Biggin Hill in Kent - 15 May 1937 A TopFoto
R A F Empire Day rehearsal at Biggin Hill in Kent - 15 May 1937 eTopFoto

A Hawker Demon on a training flight over the Medway at Rochester, Kent, 1938

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