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MEMORABILIA
Shown below are scans of magazines, adverts and photographs I've managed to accumulate
over the last few years. I do have all the originals - if you would like a really hi-res
version of anything here, please don't hesitate to ask.
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Cover of Flight Magazine
22nd October, 1954 (22MB) |
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Cover of Flight Magazine
22nd June, 1951 (0.5MB) |
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Advert from Flight Magazine
26th June, 1953 (5.8MB) |
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Advert from Flight Magazine
4th March, 1955 (4.8MB) |
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Advert from Flight Magazine
20th June, 1955 (6MB) |
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Advert from Flight Magazine
13th April, 1956 (0.3MB) |
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Sea Hawk Postcard (1.7MB) |
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"Britain's unusually sever winter weather was in evidence when a squadron of the British Navy's
most modern operational jet aircraft, Sea Hawks, joined H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's biggest
and latest aircraft carrier.
Picture shows: Jet Sea Hawks leave snow-covered Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, for H.M.S. Eagle.
Eagle has flown them before, but never had a complete operational squadron"
Issued February 1954 - Keystone Press. (5.3MB) |
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As above, Photo Shows: A Sea Hawk (Naval Jet Aircraft) being catapulted off the Carrier
showing Sea Hawks (WM963 in foreground) lined up on right - with folded wings.
Keystone Press: 23/9/1954 (7.2MB) |
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WM975 (1.5MB) |
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WV794 (1.2MB) |
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XE386 (1.1MB) |
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XE438 (1.4MB) |
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XE462 (1.1MB) |
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Britain's New Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. Albion Tries out her angled deck
in flying exercise. H.M.S. Albion, the first of Her Majesty's aircraft carriers
to be fitted with both an angled deck and the mirror-sight landing device to
assist the landing of fast aircraft, today held flying trials when she went to sea
during a "working up" exercise off Weymouth.
Photo Shows: A Sea Hawk seen taking off the deck of the Carrier along the line of
the new angle deck. She appears to be taking off the side by this method.
Keystone Press - 23/9/1954. (0.25MB) |
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Britain's New Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. Albion Tries out her angled deck
in flying exercise. H.M.S. Albion, the first of Her Majesty's aircraft carriers
to be fitted with both an angled deck and the mirror-sight landing device to
assist the landing of fast aircraft, today held flying trials when she went to sea
during a "working up" exercise off Weymouth.
Photo Shows: A Sea Hawk (WM968) taxis along the deck of the Carrier - showing the
Mirror viewing device on the Port Side. (0.25MB) |
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WM969 (38KB) |
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XE374 (49KB) |
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WV909 (60KB) |
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Cutaway Drawing of the Sea Hawk (612KB) |
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ON THE TARGET - Developed for Britain's Royal Navy is a device for target practice that lets
the target be paid out from a plane flying, thus avoiding the interference caused by laying
out and towing off targets from busy runways. Called Excelsior, the device will make it possible
to carry out target practice at higher speeds and greater altitudes than before and will let
carrier-based planes practice in any part of the ocean.
Pictures Show: TOP: Close-up of the Excelsior mounted on a Hawker Sea Hawk jet fighter. The towing
wire is in the drum at left and the target in the cylinder beside it. A slip mechanism operated
by a bomb release unit lets the target be release at any time. BOTTOM: The device under the
wing of the Sea Hawk
Keystone Press: May, 1956 (1.9MB) |
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