Pilots Collection

Wilbur and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, USA, May 1, 1904. The Wrights had a much more difficult time testing their aircraft at Huffman Prairie than at Kill Devil

Wright Brothers Glider Tests, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, USA, October 10, 1902. Historic photo of the Wright brothers third test glider being launched

Studying aeroplane [i.e. airplane] rudder, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Studying aeroplane [i.e. airplane] rudder, 1917 or 1918. The instructor is here shown explaining the principles of lateral

Machine gun school, 12 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Machine gun school, 12 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). Men becoming more familiar with the delicate mechanism of the automatic rifle as part of their aviation training.

Aviators, Mineola, between 1917 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Aviators, Mineola, between 1917 and 1918. Aviation training school at Mineola Air Station, Long Island, New York during World War I.

Victor Chapman, Elliott Cowdin, Wm. Thaw, Norman Prince, K. Rockwell, Bert Hall, Lieut..., c1915
Victor Chapman, Elliott Cowdin, William Thaw, Norman Prince, Kiffin Rockwell, Bert Hall, Lieutenant Delnage, J.R. McConnell, Captain Thenault, c1915

Aviators decorated with iron cross: Saenger, Baas, Hahn, Ingold, Hug..., between c1910 and c1915
Aviators decorated with iron cross: Saenger, Baas, Hahn, Ingold, Hug, Bremer, Reichert, between c1910 and c1915. Lieutenant Saenger, Lieutenant Baas, Lieutenant Hahn, Pilot Ingold, Lieutenant Hug

Richardson Tandem Biplane Hydroplane on Potomac, April, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Richardson Tandem Biplane Hydroplane on Potomac, April, 1916. George A. Gray at Controls, at Left And Right are Richardson Brothers who built the plane; 2nd from Left is their uncle

Aviateurs; Une visite de Gabriele d'Annunzio aux aviateurs francais de Venise, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aviateurs; Une visite de Gabriele d'Annunzio aux aviateurs francais de Venise: le poete, ayant a sa droite le consul de France, est entoure des pilotes de l'escadrille de chasse de Nieuport

Gabriele D'Annunzio et son pilote, le capitaine Ermanno Beltramo, c1916. Creator: Unknown
Gabriele D'Annunzio et son pilote, le capitaine Ermanno Beltramo, c1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912
Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are generally credited with inventing, building

At a Bomber Command Station, 5 July 1944, (1947). Creator: Unknown
At a Bomber Command Station, 5 July 1944, (1947). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with daughter Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II)

Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control, At College Park Army Flying Field, Lt. Milling, right, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Lt. H. Geiger, Lt. T. Dew. Milling, 1912. [Early aviation pioneers, Maryland, USA

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909. First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois [sic], 1909 July. [The Wright brothers conducted test flights at Fort Myer after the U.S

Fleet Air Arm pilots, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Fleet Air Arm pilots, 1943. British pilots on board an aircraft carrier during the Second World War. The Fa is the section of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft

Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Instructor explaining the operation of the parachute to students, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Instructor explaining the operation of the parachute to students, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham field, Fort Worth, Texas

Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Civilian pilot training school, returning from practice... Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942
Civilian pilot training school, returning from practice flight, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Civilian training school, students and instructors, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Civilian training school, students and instructors, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex

Fred Drinkwater congratulating Neil Armstrong, California, USA, February 1964. Test pilot Fred Drinkwater congratulating Neil Armstrong on his first hovering flight in the Ames Bell X-14 Vertical

Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. Creator: NASA
Orville Wright tests his glider at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 1911. On October 24, 1911 Orville tested a new glider and broke all the previous gliding records by actually soaring

Gus Grissom and Milt Thompson with Paresev, California, USA, 1962. Creator: NASA
Gus Grissom and Milt Thompson with Paresev, California, USA, 1962. Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom (L) and NASA test pilot Milton Thompson with Paraglider Research Vehicle 1-A at Rogers Dry Lakebed at

Fred E. Weick, Tom Hamilton and Charles Lindbergh, USA, June 1927. Creator: Unknown
Fred Weick, Tom Hamilton and Charles Lindbergh, USA, June 1927. American aviators visting the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Fred E

Apollo 7 and 8 Crew in the White House, 1968. Creator: NASA
Apollo 7 and 8 Crew in the White House, 1968. Apollo 7 and 8 flight crews sign a commemorative document to be hung in the Treaty Room of the White House honoring the occasion

Mattingly and Hartsfield Salute President Reagan, Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA, 1982. Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts Commander Thomas K. Mattingly, foreground, and Pilot Henry W

JATO Flight Test Crew, 1941. Creator: NASA
JATO Flight Test Crew, 1941. Flight test crew for the Jet Assisted Take-Off (JATO) experimental solid rocket booster. It was later refered to as RATO (Rocket Assisted Take-Off)

King George V decorates British personnel, Belgium, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). The Kings Visit to Belgium: presenting decorations to heroes of the Royal Naval Air Service

RAF pilot learning to fly during the Second World War, 1941. Creator: Charles Brown
RAF pilot learning to fly during the Second World War, 1941. Flying lesson in a de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane at the Elementary Flying Training School

RAF personnel learning navigation during the Second World War, 1941. Creator: Charles Brown
RAF personnel learning navigation during the Second World War, 1941. Navigation is one of the subjects which follow the pupil from the earliest moment right through to the most advanced stages of his

RAF personnel learning to fly in a flight simulator during the Second World War, 1941. The Link trainer enables the motions of controlling an aeroplane, and even of tlying it on a course

The Miles Magister, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Miles Magister, 1941. Instructional flight in a Miles M.14 Magister, a British two-seat monoplane trainer aircraft built by the Miles Aircraft for the RAF

Costes and Bellonte beat the flying distance record, 1929. Creator: Unknown
Costes and Bellonte beat the flying distance record, 1929. Costes et Bellonte Battent Record de Distance en Avion. French aviators Dieudonne Costes (1892-1973) and Maurice Bellonte (1896-1983)

Investigation into the Trait d Union II, 1931. Creator: Unknown
Investigation into the " Trait d Union II", 1931. L Enquete Sur Le Trait-D Union II. In September 1931, French aviators Joseph Le Brix

Between Fights, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
Between Fights, c1943. British Royal Air Force pilots relaxing between missions during World War II. From " Wings On Her Shoulders", by Katharine Bentley Beauman

Night Fighters, c1943. Creator: Cecil Beaton
Night Fighters, c1943. British Royal Air Force pilots waiting to go on a mission during World War II. From " Wings On Her Shoulders", by Katharine Bentley Beauman

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