Airfield Collection (page 4)

Compacting the runway JLP01_08_022162a
RAF Gaydon, Gaydon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. A workman operating a Holman compactor during concreting of a runway or aircraft apron at Gaydon Airfield

Carpentry JLP01_08_008287
RAF Gaydon, Gaydon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. A workman using an electric circular saw to cut wood for use in the construction of buildings at Gaydon Airfield

Derrick cranes JLP01_01_007_21
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view showing derrick cranes and a concrete batching plant amid heaps of aggregate at Filton Airfield, during the construction of a new runway

Runway construction JLP01_01_007_05
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view showing trucks and workmen on the runway at Filton Airfield during concreting

Runway construction JLP01_01_007_01
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An aerial view from the west showing the construction of a new runway at Filton Airfield

Compacting machinery JLP01_01_006_44
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A 10 ton rubber tyred wobble wheel roller, pulled by a caterpillar tractor, compacting ground during the construction of a new runway at Filton Airfield

Sheepsfoot roller JLP01_01_006_42
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A sheepsfoot roller carrying out compaction work during the construction of the runway at Filton

Concrete batching plant JLP01_01_006_09
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A concrete batching plant, with a Laing truck being loaded in the foreground, at Filton Airfield during the construction of a new runway

Loading a lorry JLP01_01_005_35
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A dragline excavator depositing material from a bucket into a flatbed van during the construction of a new runway at Filton Airfield

Refuelling JLP01_01_004_73
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A Laing face shovel excavator refuelling from a 750 gallon tanker at Filton Airfield during the construction of a new runway

Lorries JLP01_01_005_19
FILTON AIRFIELD, SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Rapid Concrete Breaking Co Ltd trucks at Filton Airfield during construction of a runway, with construction work in progress beyond

British Industries Fair EAW043043
The British Industries Fair Exhibition Hall, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands, 1952. The fair operated for two weeks each year from 1920 to 1957

Hangars 33807_028
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. An aircraft hangar being returfed, 2019

Hangars 33807_024
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. Repurposed aircraft hangars with restoration in progress, 2019

Hangars 33807_022
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire. Repurposed aircraft hangar, 2019

Airlander 10 33239_049
Cardington, Bedfordshire. Airlander 10, a hybrid airship, 2016

Birmingham International Airport 33658_013
Birmingham International Airport, West Midlands. Aeroplanes at Terminals One and Two, 2018

Chalgrove Airfield 33634_083
Chalgrove Airfield, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, 2018. The manufacturing, support and testing facility of Martin-Baker Aircraft Co, designers and manufacturers of ejection and crashworthy seats

Wroughton Airfield 29613_039
Wroughton Airfield, Swindon, 2015

Wroughton Airfield 29614_027
Wroughton Airfield, Swindon, 2015

Yorkshire Air Museum 28961_013
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York, 2017. The Yorkshire Air Museum is on the site of former RAF Elvington, a World War Two airfield. SE6748

UK, England, Bedfordshire, Shortstown, Cardington Airfield, previously RAF Cardington, Royal Airship Works, former Airship Sheds

A door rests on the floor of a tent that has been dismantled as part of areas being demolished on the massive Bagram Air Field in the Parwan province of Afghanistan January 2, 2015

U.s 109th Airlift Squadron C-130 H3
Pictured is a French Air Force (Arme de l Air) Mirage 2000D at Kandahar Airfield in 2010. 3 French Mirage 2000s were deployed to Afghanistan in support of NATO troops in 2008

RAF Chinook HC2 at Kandahar Airfield
Pictured is an RAF Chinook HC2 (now HC4) Helicopter at Kandahar Airfield in 2010. Behind is a Sikorsky HH-60M MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter

U.s Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter at Kandahar Airfield
Pictured is a U.S 182nd Airlift Wing Illinois Air National Guard C-130 H3 Hercules at Kandahar Airfield in 2010. The182d Airlift Wing (182 AW)is a unit of theIllinois Air National Guard

Sikorsky HH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter
Pictured is a Sikorsky HH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter being refuelled at Kandahar Airfield in 2010. The HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC)

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Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby, practice for the Royal Jubilee celebrations by performing a diamond-nine formation over Lincolnshire

Grob Tutor photographed over Lincolnshire
A Grob Tutor photographed over Lincolnshire

Sunset over Middle Wallop Airfield
Sunset over the airfield at the Army Air Corps Middle Wallop base in Hampshire

A RAF Chinook Helicopter Takes Off on a Dawn Mission Over Helmand, Afghanistan
Photograph shows a Royal Air Force Chinook Mk2 from 1310 flight taking off on a dawn mission from Camp Bastion airfield in Helmand, Afghanistan

Sun ride
Piotr Wrobel

British airfield somewhere in Europe - WW1
British airfield somewhere in Europe during the First World War

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 7610M - G-ALYT
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 7610M / G-ALYT (msn 6006). ex BOAC, on the apron at RAF Halton airfield, for use by apprentices as an instructional airframe. Date: 1957

Spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Tree and spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb

Avro Lincolnian Freighter ZP-CBR-97 (msn, ex B.2 RE376), at Tollerton airfield, near Nottingham. One of three Lincoln B.2s converted to Lincolnian standard with large pannier freight holds

Morane-Saulnier MS. 406 C. 1 fighter
A damaged Morane-Saulnier MS.406 C.1 fighter, abandoned on a French airfield. Date: 1940

Morane-Saulnier MS. 406 C. 1 fighters
A pair of damaged Morane-Saulnier MS.406 C.1 fighters, abandoned on a French airfield. Date: 1940

Piper Tomahawk G-DTOO
Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk G-DTOO (msn 38-79A0312), of the British Airways Flying Club at Booker airfield (High Wycombe) Date: circa 1980

Partenavia Victor G-BFST
Partenavia P.68B Victor G-BFST (msn 30), at Booker airfield (High Wycombe). Date: circa 1975

Boeing RB-17G Flying Fortress 531
CIA / Air America - Boeing RB-17G Flying Fortress 531 (msn 8440, ex 44-85531). at Clark Field in the Philippines, either before, or after, covert missions over Tibet

Biplane over Stonehenge
A biplane is seen flying over the stone henge in Britain. There was to be a new army and navy aviation station near the monument in Salisbury, now called old Sarum airfield. Date: 1912

Gloster Javelin 7485M - WT830
Royal Air Force - Gloster Javelin 7485M / WT830, the fourth prototype Javelin, at RAF Halton on the airfield hard-standing in use as a training aid, in March 1961. Date: 1961

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-8846 Pink Lady
Boeing B-17G-85-VE Flying Fortress F-AZDX Pink Lady (msn 8245, ex 44-8846), marked as B-17F 42-5703 Mother and Country for filming of Memphis Belle at Duxford

Raymond Baxter interviewing an airline pilot: discussing the use of simulators for training navigation and airfield approach procedures, on 6 November 1958

Piper PA-34 Seneca G-AZTO
Piper PA-34-200 Seneca G-AZTO (msn 34-7250141), at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport in July 1972. (Written-off at Linley Hill Airfield on 27 August 1992). Date: 1972

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 50, single-seat Open-class high-performance sailplane, at Lasham airfield during a regional gliding competition. Date: circa 1980

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