The RFC RAF WW1

[dinomartino1]

Group of pilots and air mechanics taken at the Hendon Aerodrome during the visit of the Canadian newspaper proprietors and editors, August 1918.

Salonika, officers of 150 Squadron (RAF) in front of one of their Bristol M.1c monoplane scout aircraft

Corner of instruction room No. 4 in the RFC training facility in Toronto. Officer running a class on attacking maneuvers aircraft can perform.

Artillery spotting class in a training facility in Canada. When an officer on the ground presses a button, it produces a flash on the board which men on the platform are supposed to spot and take coordinates of.

Armstrong Whitworth FK.10 Quadruplane (serial number not displayed, but probably N514), powered by a 130-hp Clerget engine, on the ground while under test at Manston.

Members of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on board an RAF lorry circa 1918.

Western front, Officers of No. 54 Squadron RAF, in flying kit, standing in front of a Sopwith Camel biplane.

A motorcyclist with the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on a 500c P&M motorcycle

 

[dinomartino1]

The RAF Gunnery School between Rang-du-Fliers and Verton. A Pilot Officer firing a Vickers gun from a moveable cockpit at targets which disappeared at the end of 6 seconds. The electric controls for this are seen in the foreground. To the right, other Pilot Officers are filling machine gun ammunition belts. 17 July 1918.

A despatch rider in the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) enjoying a tea break while seated on her Phelon & Moore 500cc single cylinder motorcycle circa 1918

A member of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) working on the propellor of an Airco DH9A in 1918.

Officers of the Number 139 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Major William George Barker VC in the centre

The RAF Gunnery School between Rang-du-Fliers and Verton. A Pilot Officer firing at fixed targets representing German aircraft from a 'cockpit' moving along curving rails. 17 July 1918.

RAF servicemen tending graves of the comrades somewhere on the Western Front.

Pilot Officer firing from a moveable ground cockpit at targets and in foreground, while other Pilot Officers are filling machine gun ammunition belts at the RAF Gunnery School between Rang-du-Fliers and Verton, 17 July 1918.

RAF mechanics preparing targets representing German aircraft at the RAF Gunnery School between Rang-du-Fliers and Verton, 17 July 1918.

Group of pilots and air mechanics taken at the Hendon Aerodrome during the visit of the Canadian newspaper proprietors and editors, August 1918.

 

[dinomartino1]

Salonika, Photographer of 16 Wing Photographic Section (RFC/RAF) wearing leather flying coat and carrying a 'C' Type camera.

Air Mechanics of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) working on the fuselage of an Avro 504 aircraft during early 1919.

 

[dinomartino1]

1918 Rubgy team of No. 54 Squadron RAF outside outside their headquarters, formerly used as a German Main Dressing Station (Hauptverbandplatz).

Assisting one of the Canadian newspapers proprietors and editors to drop from the trap door under the cockpit of a Handley Page Type O bomber after a flight from Hendon Aerodrome, August 1918.

Proprietors and editors of canadian newspapers from a flight in a twin engine Handley Page Bomber 0/400, Hendon Aerodrome, August 1918.

Proprietors and editors of canadian newspapers preparing for a flight in a twin engine Handley Page Bomber 0/400, Hendon Aerodrome, August 1918.

 

[ausreenactor]

Fire control trainers have not changed that much in 100 years.

 

[dinomartino1]

RAF Officer in the cockpit of the German Albatros D.V (serial number D2359/17), which was forced to land at Feuchy, 7 March 1918.

Major Raymond Collishaw, a Canadian, was the leading 'naval ace', gaining forty of his sixty victories in the Royal Naval Air Service which contributed squadrons to the Western Front. Here he is about to set off on a flight in a Sopwith Camel while serving with No 203 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Izel les Hameau, 10 July 1918.

 

[dinomartino1]

The Air Defence Room, which was located in the Loose Boxes at Horse Guards, Whitehall, was constructed in May 1917. It was abolished in September 1918 following the absorption of the old control scheme into the London Air Defence Area Room.

Mechanics of the Royal Flying Corps overhauling a 70 HP Renault engine at Farnborough, November 1915.

Royal Flying Corps men repairing a kite balloon at Boyelles, 4 February 1918

Workers inside a Royal Flying Corps engine and repair shop in Farnborough, November 1915

Workers testing the wing of a B. E. 2c. plane in a Royal Flying Corps workshop at Farnborough, November 1915.

 

[dinomartino1]

The interior of a Royal Flying Corps telegraphists' school at Farnborough, November 1915.

The fuselage of a German Pfalz D.III biplane (serial number 1370/17) being towed by RFC lorry and tender. Near Villers-Carbonnel, 1st January 1918

Rudder and other portions of AEG G.IV (G.105), brought down by anti-aircraft gun fire at Achiet-le-Grand on 23 December 1917, being removed by RFC tender, 27th December 1917. Near Bapaume.

 

[Smithy]

Nice photos Dino but maybe it might have been best to put them in the thread for the same subject I started the beginning of this year to try and keep images in the same place?

https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/british-air-forces-1914-1918-images-of-war.22234/

 

[B-Man2]

Great photos Dino...Thanks

 

[B-Man2]

Dino
If you don’t mind me asking ..,is there a publication or a book that has all of these photos and information available ?

 

[dinomartino1]

https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/british-air-forces-1914-1918-images-of-war.22234/[/QUOTE]

Dino
If you don’t mind me asking ..,is there a publication or a book that has all of these photos and information available ?
[/QUOTE

Smithy is the most knowledgable here about the RFC, he might be able recommend something but with such wide range of subject matter for the photos maybe there is no such book.
You can find the photos online at the IWM, the imperial war museum.

 

[dinomartino1]

Nice photos Dino but maybe it might have been best to put them in the thread for the same subject I started the beginning of this year to try and keep images in the same place?

https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/british-air-forces-1914-1918-images-of-war.22234/

I forgot about the existing RFC thread.
This thread is closed for photos.

 

[B-Man2]

Thanks Dino

 

[ausreenactor]

I forgot about the existing RFC thread.
This thread is closed for photos.

Boooo. Will still look at 'em though!