Aeronautica

This particular Bell AH-1F attack helicopter was a gift by the US Department of Defense to the British Army Flying Museum. It can be seen on display in the Museum, on the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop, in Hampshire.

The unique Sea Hurricane Ib, the sole flyable 'hooked Hurricane' in the world, is seen here at Old Warden airfield, home of the Shuttleworth Trust.

The unique Shield Xyla is powered by a Ground Power Unit, and is a very eccentric British one-off aircraft!

The aircraft described has since been moved from the RAF Museum, London to the RAF Museum, Cosford. The 'thumbnail' image shows it in its new home.

Here we see an immaculate DHC-1 Chipmunk, in a 'modified' version of a Chipmunk of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Royal Air Force's last user of the classic Canadian-designed trainer.

This superbly restored C-47A is now with Kermit Weeks' private collection in the U.S.A. It is shown here at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England, wearing the markings it wore on D-Day, 5/6th June, 1944. Flying from RAF Upottery, it carried part of Easy Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne Division, U S Army, the famous 'Band of Brothers'.

G-XCUB, seen here, is a typical Piper PA-18 Super Cub; an aircraft design that keeps going and going and going.............

Here is a fine example of the Druine D.5 Turbi - a classic French two-seater, constructed of wood.

Here we see a North American T-28C Trojan at Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts. Typical of the breed, it is a burly trainer with blunt lines

The photograph shows a V-1 missile loaded on to its launch ramp at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire

The Westland Belvedere HC.1, the RAF's first 'heavy-lift' helicopter, had a difficult 'birth' and never really fulfilled its promise.

The Midland Air Museum, Coventry has preserved an example of the F.6 version of the BAC (formerly, English Electric Co Ltd) Lightning. Even today the aircraft looks 'modern', with its highly swept wings and angular lines. The last of the RAF's interceptors, and a classic jet fighter. Please note that the 'thumbnail' photograph shown here is of a preserved Lightning F.1, on display at the RAF Museum, Cosford, as part of the National Cold War Exhibition.

The Auster Autocrat was a most significant, British-built, post-War light aircraft. Indeed, it has been described as 'the epitome of a gentleman's aerial carriage'. Here we see an very early example (1946), still active from the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield.

The 22,000lb MC, "Grand Slam' bomb shown here, on its custom-built trailer, is on display at Brooklands Museum, site of a former Vickers Ltd facility.

Here is the former N485EV, a Boeing 747-212B, at Quonset State Airport, Rhode Island, USA, after being converted to resemble a VC-25A. This 'Presidential aircraft' is now in Washington D.C., being used as an educational tool for schoolchildren.

This flying replica of a Vickers F.B.5 'Gunbus' is on display in the Grahame White Factory at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London

Jigs bought by The People's Mosquito being unloaded at the works of Retrotec Ltd, from the container which had been shipped 13,000 miles from New Zealand. The wing for Mosquito FB.VI, PZ474 (now flying in the U.S.A.) being constructed on the jig which is now with Retrotec Ltd, in the U.K. For more details of The People's Mosquito project, please go to http://www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk To buy branded clothing and a fine selection of other gifts, please go to https://www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk/store/ To join The People's Mosquito Club, go to https://www.peoplesmosquitoclub.org.uk/ To make a donation, go to http://www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk/donate/ The People's Mosquito is a Registered Charity, No. 1165903 Thank you!

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This Vickers Supermarine Walrus is shown on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England

The Avro Ashton was a research aircraft at the dawn of the age of jet transport; here is the sole survivor.