Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa aircraft of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, 6 April 1942.
Blackburn NA-39 during landing trials on HMS VICTORIOUS, June 1959.
Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIX at Eastleigh in Hampshire, after assembly at Vickers Armstrong Ltd, 9 May 1944.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIVe RB140 in March 1944. This aircraft served operationally with Nos. 616 and 610 Squadrons, but was destroyed in a landing accident at Lympne on 30 October 1944.
American volunteer pilots of No.121 (Eagle) Squadron run to their aircraft at RAF Rochford in Essex, August 1942.
An RAF Tornado GR.1 in flight during the Gulf War, 1991.
SE.5 aircraft of No.32 Squadron at Humieres airfield near St Pol, 6 April 1918.
Avro Lancaster Mk I of No.44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, 14 April 1942, while practising for the daylight, low-level attack on the M.A.N. diesel engineering works at Augsburg which took place three days later on 17 April.
An Avro Vulcan B.2 aircraft of No. 9 Squadron based at RAF Cottesmore, 1965.
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC of No. 73 Operational Training Unit in flight over Egypt, January 1943.
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk VC of No. 249 Squadron RAF in flight over Egypt, 1942.
A Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter takes off from a ramp on the 'Q' turret of the battlecruiser HMAS AUSTRALIA. This feat was first achieved on 4 April 1918.
Hawker Hurricane Mark IID 'tank busters' of No. 6 Squadron about to take off from Gabes in Tunisia, 6 April 1943.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC during King George VI's visit to No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 27 May 1943.
Samuel Cody at the controls of a Cody aircraft Mk II with a Native American in traditional dress as a passenger, c. 1910.
A Boeing Flying Fortress Mk IIA of No. 220 Squadron RAF, based at Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, May 1943.
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.
Avro Lancaster aircraft under construction at the A V Roe & Co Ltd factory at Woodford in Cheshire, 1943.
Sopwith F1 Camel, single-seat scout.
BE2c, two-seat reconnaissance aircraft, used by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War.
Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 1942.
Supermarine Spitfire pilots of No. 40 Squadron, South African Air Force, at Gabes in Tunisia, April 1943.
