Oil Painting ‘Noon’
In this oil painting by Emile Antoine Verpilleux, a Royal Flying Corps wireless operator gathers intelligence by listening to messages sent from an aircraft observing the accuracy …
Period: Inter-War
Seaplane Tender 206
Following successful trials with prototype vessel RAF 200 undertaken by Aircraftman TE Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) in March 1931, ST 206 was ordered as one of the …
Sopwith Snipe
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major IA ‘Civet’
Early in 1934 A.V. Roe acquired a licence to build the Cierva C30A two-seat autogiro (140hp SS Genet Major 1A) including the whole of the rotor system. …
Gloster Gladiator 1
The Gladiator was the first enclosed cockpit and last biplane fighter introduced into RAF service. Although it saw operational service at home it was most successfully employed …
Hawker Cygnet
The Cygnet was the first aircraft to be designed by Sydney Camm after he joined what was then the H.G. Hawker Engineering Company. Two were built as …
Mignet Flying Flea
This aircraft was designed by Henri Mignet in the early 1930s to be built at home. It is of tandem wing design and could use a variety …