Aerospace Collection (page 6)

Dan-Air duty officer, Jackie Blackburn, from Jesmond, who had been working 13 hour shifts during four days of delays to flights at Newcastle Airport. 29/08/1977

Lib - Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 12 / 11 / 1985
Lib - Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 12/11/1985

Mr Arthur George (Arthur E George) is seen at the controls of his homemade 80hp biplane in 1909, he later flew the aircraft at Gosforth Park in 1910. Circa 1909

A Hiller UH-12 helicopter was called into lift 48 smoke ventilators onto the roof of a new section of the Kimberley Clark factory in Prudhoe. 23/02/1979

An Air UK Stewardess abseils from the Tyne Bridge on the Gateshead side. Circa: 1994

Britannia Airways stewardess, Viv Donnelly, at Newcastle Airport. 14/06/1989

Former army helicopter pilot Ted Spencer, from Dumfries, lifts an 950kg air conditioning unit onto the roof of the new £ 3m Savacentre store in Washington, Tyne & Wear

British Airways stewardesses Margaret Delaney (left) and Jane Swanson were part of a team looking to recruit new stewards and stewardesses from Newcastle

Mr Arthur George, of Newcastle, in one of the early flights in his homemade biplane, the first to fly on Tyneside. Circa : April 1910

A Royal Navy Westland Wessex helicopter demonstrates search and rescue techniques. 28/09/1977

A MBB Bolkow BO105 Air Ambulance helicopter takes off from a landing site near the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. 14/09/1987

A RAF search and rescue Sea King from RAF Boulmer winches a man onboard plucking him out of the sea off Cullercoats. The helicopter had been involved in the double rescue in high winds which had

The picture shows the deserted passenger terminal at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan, unopened and unused since completion because of environmentalists objections. Circa : March 1978

Mr Arthur Georges homemade biplane, the first to fly on Tyneside. 14th August 1932

Steve Casey, pictured with left to right, Anne Liddle, Jeanette Jenkins and Linda Clough. Dan-Air, the company accused of labelling cabin staff as sexually promiscuous

A RAF Sea King helicopter lowers Father Christmas to the ground. Santa Claus, played by Sgt Alan Walters, 37, of RAF Boulmer, was greeted by children outside the Radcliffe Workingsmens Club, Amble

Evening Chronicle reporter Rex Garratt (being rescued) joined a RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer on a practise rescue mission. 10/10/1987

With a big money prize for the first man-powered flight still unclaimed at the time, Mr Charles Henry Lutman invented and built this attempt at an aircraft in his backyard

A bad landing for Mr Arthur George, of Newcastle, in one of the early flights in his homemade biplane. Arthur E George mistook the nature of the ground on which he was landing the plane in 1910

A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter visits Marden High School in Whitley Bay. Helen Lockey, 15, tries out the winch on the helicopter aided by chief aircrewman Paul Pops Coombes. 19/11/1997

A Hiller 12E helicopter carries a telegraph pole across Grouse Moor at Kings Law, Northumberland. 10/02/1971

The Northumbria Police Air Support Unit MBB Bolkow BO105 helicopter flies over a RNLI lifeboat in the North Sea during an exercise. Circa 1990

The Army and the RAF gave a helping hand to American Air Filter Ltd. Cramlington, to get equipment high on the roof of Drax Power Station, near Selby, Yorkshire

The Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel helicopter used by Northumbria Air Ambulance ( Great North Air Ambulance ) and sponsored by Barbour. 18/07/1994

A Westland Wessex helicopter, operated by Bristow, tackles the job of airlifting the tip of a 352 ft flarestack at ICIs North Tees works, near Billingham. 23/09/1972

Pilot Tony Daly at the controls of his Hiller 12E helicopter spreading fertiliser at The Brocks farm, Longhirst, Northumberland. 16/03/1981

A RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer. August 1984

A Royal Navy Westland Dragonfly helicopter uses the newly developed scoop net for picking up people from the sea. Second Officer Ridley, of Birkenhead

A RAF search and rescue Sea King from RAF Boulmer lands a man on the beach after he was plucked out of the sea off Cullercoats

Evening Chronicle reporter Rex Garratt joined a RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer on a practise rescue mission

A RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer, which made a mercy dash to get emergency patients to hospital, had to stop twice because of blizzards

A RAF Westland Puma helicopter, flown by Flt-Lieut. George Blackie, lowers a home dialysis unit into the garden of 18 year old kidney patient Howard Gustard at Marcia Avenue, Shotton Colliery

A Westland Wessex helicopter, operated by Management Aviation, airllifts concrete from Seahouses to Longstone Island. 14/03/1980

A RAF search and rescue Westland Whirlwind helicopter, from RAF Boulmer, searches the coast near the mouth of the River Wansbeck for a missing man

A four month old baby was flown 800 miles, by a RAF Westland Puma helicopter, to Newcastle in mercy dash from an RAF camp in Germany. A medical team was at the baby boys side as he flew to Newcastle

A RAF BAE Harrier II and a Panavia Tornado aircraft on display at the Sunderland International Airshow. 02/08/1997

A Polish Air Force PZL Turbo Orlik trainer aircraft taxis before take off for the Sunderland International Airshow. 02/08/1998

A United States Air Force Rockwell B-1 Lancer strategic bomber aircraft takes off on its way to the Sunderland International Airshow. 02/08/1998

A Spanish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet takes off for the Sunderland
A Spanish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet takes off for the Sunderland International Airshow 02/08/1998

Wing walker, Tanya Gaze, with the Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane pictured at Elvington. 01/09/1998

A Royal Navy Fairey Firefly carrier-borne fighter aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm at the Sunderland International Airshow. 04/08/1996

A RAF Panavia Tornado F3 fighter aircraft at the Sunderland International Airshow. 05/08/1995

A RAF Hawker Siddeley Dominie, the military version of the Hawker Siddeley 125 aircraft, waits to take part in the Sunderland International Airshow 02/08/1998

The Patrouille de France aerobatic display team flying their Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jet
The Patrouille de France aerobatic display team flying their Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet aircraft at the Sunderland International Airshow. 02/08/1998

The Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel helicopter used by Northumbria Air Ambulance ( Great North Air Ambulance ) and sponsored by Barbour at the Sunderland International Airshow. 03/08/1996

The Cadburys Crunchie Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane pictured at Elvington 01/09/1998

A Supermarine Spitfire at the Sunderland International Airshow. 06 / 08 / 1995
A Supermarine Spitfire at the Sunderland International Airshow. 06/08/1995

A RAF BAE Harrier II hovering at the Sunderland International Airshow. 04/08/1996

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