A close-up shows a black metal aircraft fuselage marked with rows of hand painted red, white, blue and yellow Royal Air Force roundels.
Mission marks on a cockpit section of a Royal Australian Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bomber named 'Old Fred' on display at #IWMLondon. With No. 467 Squadron RAAF this aircraft flew 49 operational sorties in 1943-44, inc. ops against Berlin and targets in France before D-Day. #wartour #AvHist
Two biplanes taxi past each other, one a yellow Tiger Moth, the other a silver Dragon Rapide.
Taking the offspring to Shuttleworth for a morning's entertainment and these two beautiful De Havillands taxi past each other just after we arrive. #AvGeek #AvHist
Recently digitised - Blackburn Roc naval aircraft filmed during a divebombing demonstration in October 1940, either at Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire or Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire. #filmcataloguing #navalhistory #ww2 #avgeek #avhist
Full film: IWM AYY 47 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Was back at #IWMDuxford again today. I wonder how many of my #AvHist #AvGeek followers can identify all twelve of the aircraft visible in this photo... ๐ค๐ง
Recently digitised - March 1945; at Mandalay Palace in Burma (once known as Fort Dufferin), Thunderbolt fighters attack Japanese positions, guns blazing, with gunfire and bombing. Footage by Indian Army cameraman A R Hayat. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #AvHist
IWM JIN 22 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Recently digitised - at an airfield, two Hawker Hurricanes of No.607 Squadron Royal Air Force taxi after landing, and a Westland Lysander of No.4 Squadron passes overhead; July 1940. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #AvHist
Full film: IWM AYY 28-1 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Recently digitised - a C-47 Dakota, flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, does a series of low passes for the cameraman, probably at Imphal in Manipur, India, July 1945. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #AvHist
Full film: IWM ABY 122 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Recently digitised - a C-47 Dakota, flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, takes off from a waterlogged airfield, probably at Imphal in Manipur, India, July 1945. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #AvHist
Full film: IWM ABY 122 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Recently digitised - a C-47 Dakota named 'Salomi', flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, is filmed in flight over Burma by Sergeant Goozee of the RAF Film Production Unit, July 1945. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #AvHist
Full film: IWM ABY 122 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Another good aircraft thread by Jamie. In this film clip light glints off a captured German Ju-88 A5 bomber, wearing British markings and flown by No.1426 Enemy Aircraft Flight RAF. #AvHist #AvGeek
Full film: IWM ARY 7-28 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Recently digitised - at Thabutkon troops of 17th Indian Division are flown in on Dakota transport aircraft, during the division's advance on Meiktila in central Burma. Shot by A Salem.
#filmcataloguing #ww2 #history #AvHist
Full film: IWM JIN 12 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Aircraft under maintenance in a hangar.
At Shuttleworth with the child. A Percival Provost, Spitfire Mk v and Hawker Hind under maintenance. #AvHist #avgeek
Today in 1945, the Royal Air Force films a short aircraft recognition film for the De Havilland Vampire, the second British jet fighter aircraft. The Vampire will be a mainstay of the RAF fighter force in the early Cold War, and will be used by many other air forces.
#OnThisDay #AvHist #AvGeek
Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
HMS Delight. IWM photo FL 11185
Today in 1940, at 18:20, Pilot Officer John Curchin takes off in #SpitfireR6915 to mount a patrol over Swanage with B Flight. Meanwhile, No.609 Squadron's A Flight patrol over damaged Royal Navy destroyer HMS Delight, which has been struck by Stuka divebombers
#AvHist #BattleOfBritain85 #SWW #WW2
Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Today in 1940, at 4:40pm, Noel Agazarian takes #SpitfireR6915 on another patrol over Portland. The Isle is home to an important Royal Navy base specialising in anti-submarine warfare but, with the fall of France, now finds itself in the frontline. #BattleOfBritain85
#OTD #AvHist #SWW #WW2
Spitfire R6915 on display at IWM London
Squadron badge of No.609 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, on display at the Royal Air Force Museum. The badge features a white rose of Yorkshire with crossed hunting horns, and the motto 'Tally Ho'.
Today in 1940, #SpitfireR6915 - now on display at IWM London - is transferred to No.609 (West Riding) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Based at RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire, the Squadron has already fought over Dunkirk. #BattleOfBritain85
#AvHist #WW2 #SWW #OTD
Spitfire R6915 on display at #IWMLondon
Today in 1940, IWM's #SpitfireR6915 makes its first flight at Eastleigh, near Southampton, with test pilot George Pickering at the controls. Its Battle of Britain combat service, at the hands of 13 pilots, lie ahead of it. #AvHist #SWW #WW2 #OTD
Good thread by Jamie about McCudden VC. IWM has a number of McC relics including this, the windscreen of the SE5a in which he suffered his fatal crash. A disturbing reminder that just flying (nevermind aerial combat) during the FWW was incredibly dangerous #AvHist
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
A colour photograph shows a pilot in flying gear posing in front of an aircraft.
Today in 1943 at Malta, Wing Commander John Selby DSO DFC, commanding No.23 Squadron Royal Air Force, poses with his Mosquito in this original colour photo. The plane's four machine guns have corks in their muzzles to keep out dust #OTD #SWW #WW2 #AvHist
Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
A black and white photograph shows a biplane aircraft in flight, against a background of clouds and a bright shaft of sunlight. A windmill stands on the horizon.
Today in 1918, in France; a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 fighter biplane returns to base near St Omer, during the First World War. #OTD #FWW #WW1 #AvHist
Photo: David McLellan www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Congratulations to the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland on the first flight of their replica Sopwith 1 ยฝ Strutter, 25 years in the making. ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ #AvGeek #AvHist
www.bbc.com/news/article...
TSR-2 XR222 at IWM Duxford
Happy belated TSR-2 Cancellation Day - yesterday - to all who celebrate.
TSR-2 XR222 at #IWMDuxford. #AvGeek #AvHist
A photo of two aircraft in a hangar, seen in profile, facing right. A Bristol Fighter biplane and a Percival Provost, the latter with its engine cowling removed.
Percival Provost and Bristol Fighter under maintenance at the Shuttleworth Collection. #AvHist #AvGeek
A Gnome Monosoupape 100hp 9-cylinder rotary engine. Used in First World War aircraft including the Vickers Gunbus, Sopwith Camel and Pup, Royal Aircraft Factory FE8 and BE8, Bristol Scout, Airco DH2 and Avro 504E. #AvGeek #AvHist
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A colour photo shows a small jet aircraft parked on grass. A large hangar is in the background.
The first production model De Havilland DH.100 Vampire Mk 1, TG274 at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, July-October 1945. #AvHist #AvGeek
#100followers #IWMcollections COL 50
A four-bladed wooden propeller with brass tips mounted on a grey steel stand.
An aircraft propeller for a Gnome 9B2 100hp engine. This prop has a 96-inch diameter, with brass reinforced tips, and was intended to be fitted either to a DH2 or an FE8 aircraft. #100followers #AvHist
#IWMCollections AIR 257
Does anybody have any recommendations for reading on the development of the F-104 Starfighter program? #Airpower #AvHist
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), a U.S. Navy dirigible, moored at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, 1923
#OnThisDay in 1923, the U.S. Navy launched its first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah. It was also the first dirigible filled w/helium, rather than the hydrogen used in German zeppelins.
Learn more in LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay post: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...
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