Roy Cross. Wright Flyer. Invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright. Made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft, 17.12.1903. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #OrvilleWright #WilburWright #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Supermarine Spitfire. Single-seat fighter aircraft. Deidned by Reginald J. Mitchell. At least 20,351 built 1938-48 of which 240 suvive, 70 being airworthy. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #ReginaldMitchell #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Sikorsky R-4. Two-seat light helicopter. Designed by Igor Sikorsky. 131 built 1942-44 of which 9 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #IgorSikorsky #helicopter #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Short S.23 Empire. Four-engined transport flying boat. 42 built 1936-40. Retired 1946-57. G-ADHL was named Canopus. Srapped R. J. Coley and Sons, Ltd, Marchwood, Southampton, 1947. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. The Bat hang glider. Built 1895 by Percy Pilcher. He also built another one called Hawk, 1895-96. Pilcher died 02.10.1899 in a crash at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #PercyPilcher #HangGlider #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Northrop HL-10. Lifting body technology demonstrator. 1 built 1966. Retired 1970. On display at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. North American X-15. Hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. Based on a concept by Walter Dornberger for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 3 built 1959. Retired 1968. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #WalterDornberger #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Montgolfier balloon. Made by Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, 1783. First free flight by humans made by Pilâtre de Rozier, 21.11.1783. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #balloon #Joseph-MichelMontgolfier #PilâtredeRozier #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. 14,570 built 1947-49 of which atleast 54 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Mikoyan-Gurevich #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Messerschmitt Me 163 Kome. Rocket-powered interceptor aircraft. c370 built 1941-44 of which 10 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Messerschmitt #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Maurice Farman MF.7 Longhorn. Reconnaissance biplane. Unknown number built 1922 of which 2 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #MauriceFarman #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. Medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner. 250 built 1968-72 of which 13 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Lebaudy Patrie. Semi-rigid airship built for the French army by sugar producers Lebaudy Frères, 1906. Designed by Henri Julliot. Lost in a storm 1907. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #LebaudyFrères #HenriJulliot #airship #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Lippisch Wien sailplane. High-performance glider. Built 1929 by Gerhard Fiesler Werke. Designed by Alexander Lippisch. Owned and flown by Robert Kronfeld. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #AlexanderLippisch #RobertKronfeld #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Junkers F 13. First all-metal transport aircraft. Designed by Otto Reuter. 322 built 1919 of which 5 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Junkers #OttoReuter #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. LZ 129 Hindenburg. Built 1931–36. Destroyed in fire and crash 06.05.1937. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Hindenburg #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Heinkel He 118. prototype German monoplane dive bomber. Designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter. 15 built 1930s. None survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #Heinkel #SiegfriedGünter #WalterGünter #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Hawker Siddeley Harrier. V/STOL jet-powered attack aircraftt. 278 built 1967-70 of which 46 survive. Retired 2006. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #HawkerSiddeley #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Hawker Siddeley HS.125. Mid-size business jet originally developed by de Havilland as the DH.125 Jet Dragon;. 1,720 built by British Aerospace 1963-2013 of which 10 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #HawkerSiddeley #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Hawker Hart. Two-seater biplane light bomber. Designed by Sydney Camm. 992 built 1928-1930 of which 5 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #SydneyCamm #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Handley Page H.P.42. Four-engine biplane airliner. Designed by George Volkert and Harold Boultbee. 4 built 1830. None survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #HandleyPage #GeorgeVolkert #HaroldBoultbee #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Handley Page Type O. Biplane bomber. 600 built 1915-19. Retired 1922. None survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #HandleyPage #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Grumman TBF Avenger. Torpedo bomber. 9,839 built 1942 of which 79 survive. Retired 1960s. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Gloster E.28/39. Designed by George Carter. Experimental turbojet-engined aircraft. 2 built 1941. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviationz #GeorgeCarter #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. Supersonic, medium-range, fighter-bomber. 563 built 1967 of which 44 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviationz #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Fokker D.VII. World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz. c3,300 built 1916 of which 8 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #ReinholdPlatz #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Supersonic jet interceptor. 5,195 built 1958-61. Retired 1986-2024. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. Douglas DC-3. 607 built 1936-42 of which 6 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. de Havilland DH.60 Moth. 1,535 built from 1925 of which 65 survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond

Roy Cross. de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. 7,781 built 1940-50. Retired 1963. 30 non-flying examples survive. From a card set called Histroy of Aviation Brooke Bond, 1973. #RoyCross #aviation #BrookeBond