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Flying aces up front? (Upd. Royal Flying Corps)
These photos are presumably all taken at some Royal Air Force base and looking at them we wondered why this group of people is posing on the truck with the two goggle-wearing women sitting on the bonnet? Could they be lady pilots? They sure look dressed that way. We shall probably never know as Nigel Hamlin-Wright, who found the pictures in his father’s house, has no idea where they came from. We can date the photos as being taken after April 1st 1918, because that’s when the RAF came into being. The trucks all seem to be Leyland from pre-WW I. They could be re-painted Royal Flying Corps equipment, although after WW I Leyland bought back many of these military vehicles for reconditioning and sold them for lots less than the price of a new truck. Perhaps someone can tell us about these ladies or put a better date on the pictures by identifying the planes? (photo were sent by Nigel Hamlin Wright)
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giovedì febbraio 10th, 2011
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21 Aprile 2013, 21:38
The large crate on the truck with the Bristol Fighter H1558 may be one of the packing crates used to ship aircraft. They were fitted out to carry all the components of an aircraft, for erection at the destination.
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21 Aprile 2013, 21:25
The large aircraft in the background of the picture with the SE5A in tow is a Handley Page O/100
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02 Marzo 2011, 10:07
Lorry 50403, I have many excellent pictures of this Leyland lorry, taken by Newby. Please contact me if of interesy
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14 Febbraio 2011, 13:28
The SE A-5 Aircraft in tow in the first photo is in pretty poor shape on closer examination....
Tim.
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12 Febbraio 2011, 21:56
RFC uniforms were worn long after the creation of the RAF on 1 April 1918.
The aeroplanes in the hangar are SE5as, designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory but produced under licence by many firms. The damaged aircraft being towed is also an SE5a, with what look like the unit markings of No 24 Squadron (white vertical bars each side of the roundel). If the serial number on the tail - under the letter 'E') is readable, the aeroplane can be identified.
H1558, the fuselage next to the truck, as a Bristol F2B built in late 1918.
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The aeroplanes in the hangar are SE5as, designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory but produced under licence by many firms. The damaged aircraft being towed is also an SE5a, with what look like the unit markings of No 24 Squadron (white vertical bars each side of the roundel). If the serial number on the tail - under the letter 'E') is readable, the aeroplane can be identified.
H1558, the fuselage next to the truck, as a Bristol F2B built in late 1918.
Sconosciuto
12 Febbraio 2011, 05:19
All the motor cycles are P & M 3 1/2hp models. Phelon & Moore provided over 3000 to the RFC/RAF during WWI. If we could get a close up of one I might be able to date the model.
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Sconosciuto
11 Febbraio 2011, 22:36
Could the lorry 50403 be a mobile workshop? What a nice thing to have now... a lathe, a forge, a pillar drill with a generator to provide power for the machinery.
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11 Febbraio 2011, 09:57
As every historian knows, the R.A.F. was formed from April 1st. 1918 from the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps). Nubers of personnel on these photographs are wearing the distinctive R.F.C. tunic, phased out after that date.
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11 Febbraio 2011, 09:40
Thinking about it, could these photos be the last of the Royal Aircraft Factory, before it became the RAE.
A celebration perhaps ? Not yet the end of the Great War though.
Stuart
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A celebration perhaps ? Not yet the end of the Great War though.
Stuart
Sconosciuto
11 Febbraio 2011, 09:30
In 1918 the Royal Aircraft Factory was renamed, the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) to avoid confusion with the Royal Air Force, which was formed on 1 April 1918, and because it had relinquished its manufacturing role to concentrate on research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Establishment
Stuart
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Establishment
Stuart
Sconosciuto
11 Febbraio 2011, 07:21
Third photo from right:
Bristol F.2 fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_F.2_Fighter
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Bristol F.2 fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_F.2_Fighter
Sconosciuto
11 Febbraio 2011, 01:04
I think RAF in this case is more likely to stand for Royal Aircraft Factory: the planes in the pictures are SE5s, which were built by the Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough. The pictures could therefore date from 1917 onwards.
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