Experimental camouflage on the fuselage of a Sopwith camel, developed during the First World War to disguise the aircraft's direction of flight.
A member of the crew of an RAF Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson holding a carrier pigeon, 1942.
Samuel Cody at the controls of a Cody aircraft Mk II with a Native American in traditional dress as a passenger, c. 1910.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk V and pilots of No. 40 Squadron, South African Air Force, at Gabes in Tunisia, April 1943.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vbs of No. 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, flying in loose formation over the Tunisian desert on a bomber escort operation, April 1943.
Supermarine Spitfire pilots of No. 40 Squadron, South African Air Force, at Gabes in Tunisia, April 1943.
An ATS artillery observer uses a theodolite to measure air shell bursts at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit, Shoeburyness, Essex , 1942
Men of the Airborne Division adjusting their harnesses..
Flight Lieutenant W H Pentland, of No 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Publicity shot purporting to show the captain of a Boeing Fortress Mark II holding a final conference with his crew before take off.
Squadron Leader Dennis Barry (in cockpit) and other pilots of No. 616 Squadron RAF with a Gloster Meteor at Manston, Kent, January 1945.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV flown by the CO of No. 610 Squadron RAF, Squadron Leader R A Newbury, based at Friston, Sussex, 3 July 1944.
Handley Page Hampden Mk I of No.455 Squadron RAAF, based at Leuchars in Scotland, May 1942.
Douglas Dakota Mk III of No. 267 Squadron RAF based at Bari in Italy, 27 December 1944.
A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1943.
An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 49 Squadron RAF is guided to its dispersal point at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid on Berlin, 22 November 1943.
Vickers Wellington Mk Is of No. 9 Squadron in flight, 1939.
A North American Mustang Mk I of No. 268 Squadron RAF opens fire on a railway locomotive during a low-level sortie over Holland, 4 February 1943.
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I night-fighter of No. 264 Squadron RAF, silhouetted against the clouds during a low-level pass over its base at Biggin Hill, Kent, April 1941.
A Lancaster Mk III of No. 619 Squadron on a test flight from RAF Coningsby, 14 February 1944.
Hawker Hurricanes of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940.
RAF student pilot Jellicoe Scoon, a West Indian from Trinidad, in Parliament Square in London, 26 March 1942.
Lockheed Hudsons of No. 233 Squadron RAF based at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland, 30 May 1941.
Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 85 Squadron RAF, October 1940.
