2009-02-16
Click on the image to enlarge 1941 advertisment for Rotol constant-speed propellers, by the standards of the era referred to as “airscrew”. The introduction ...
2009-02-16
Click on the image to enlarge 1941 advertisement of Rolls-Royce aero engines, showing the proud profile view of the Merlin (believed to be the ...
2008-04-01
Click to enlarge image The Post Office of the Isle of Man has issued a series of stamps and envelopes celebrating the 90th Anniversary ...
2007-12-17
Click on the image to enlarge By 1941, the popularity of the Spitfire was already firmly established on the other side of the Atlantic. ...
2007-11-08
Click to enlarge image Well, the things I’m finding while tidying up the house! I had forgotten about this in a 1981 reprint of ...
2007-11-08
Click to enlarge image Contrary to what may be common supposition, aircraft companies continued to fund advertising in flight periodicals throughout the war, despite ...
2007-11-08
Back in the 1940s, the Spitfire was often used as focal point of advertisements in aviation magazines...
2007-11-01
Click to enlarge image Wartime recruitment poster for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force [HMSO]
2007-10-28
Click to enlarge image Wartime propaganda poster of the RAF. As can be seen, the quote from Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons ...
2007-10-24
Click to enlarge images A 1947 Shell advertisement published in the magazine Aeronave, proudly showing Argentina’s sole Spitfire PR Mk. XI shortly after its ...