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sunday fantasy #391: Nick Dyer, from a comic book prequel to the upcoming novel Ack-Ack Macaque, by Gareth Powell

“An Avro Lancaster of No. 1 Group, Bomber Command, silhouetted against flares, smoke and explosions during the attack on Hamburg, Germany, by aircraft of Nos. 1, 5 and 8 Groups on the night of 30/31 January 1943” (via)

the General Aircraft Limited Hamilcar glider (via Austin7nut on Flickr)

“Operation MALLARD: aircraft prepared for the reinforcement of the British airborne assault, assembled at Tarrant Rushton, Hampshire, on the afternoon of 6 June (1944). On the runway are General Aircraft Hamilcar heavy lift gliders, preceded by two Airspeed Horsa troop-carrying gliders, while parked on each side of them are Handley Page Halifax glider-tugs of Nos. 298 and 644 Squadrons RAF.” (via)

“Squadron Leader F.R.D. Swain is helped into his high altitude pressure helmet in front of his charge, the Bristol Type 138A, K4879, Farnborough, 10 September 1936” (via FlightGlobal)

the Planet Satellite at the 1948 Farnborough Airshow (via FlightGlobal)

the Edgley EA-7 Optica (via)

the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 flying boat fighter, circa 1947 (via THE_TARTANTERROR)

“19th August 1952: Chief test Pilot Geoffrey Tyson standing by a 140 ton Saunders-Roe ‘Princess’ flying boat prior to flight trials. The plane is powered by ten Proteus 600 series ‘jet prop’ engines, can cruise at 350 mph and will take over a 100 passengers. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)” (via)

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“The British Flying boat on the weekly London-Genoa run ends up on the beach at Santa Margherita after a violent sea storm.
Date Photographed:01 September 1956
Photographer:Vittoriano Rastelli” (via)

sunday fantasy #385: Clavework Graphics

Some of their fantasy Avro Vulcans were posted here a while back. Since then, things have been getting silly.

sunday fantasy #375: The Sound Barrier (via)

“A UNIQUE programme is being arranged for a meeting which is to take place at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, on Thursday, Sept. 26th. There will be the usual exhibition flights from 3 o’clock - weather permitting - of course; and at 7.30 p.m will commence the first illuminated flying fête.

Each of the aeroplanes taking part will carry a powerful searchlight, in addition to side and rear lights, and they will also be outlined with hundreds of tiny electric lights supplied from portable accumulators carried in the body of the machine. On the roofs of the hangars there will be
powerful naval searchlights to guide the airmen flying in the darkness above, and the pylons which mark out the one and a-half miles’ speed course will also be brilliantly illuminated.

Many hundreds of coloured lanterns will be used in the various enclosures and the bandstand, so that the aerodrome should present a remarkably novel and beautiful scene…” (via, photo via)

Bournemouth, 1910 (via)

Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus, 1931 (via)