Fortress IIA J/220 (FL459) on windswept Benbeoula

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - СШАUSA - 1941

Fortress IIA J/206 (FK190) at Benbecula

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - СШАUSA - 1941

Fortress II P/206 (FA702)

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - СШАUSA - 1941

H/206 takes off from Lagens

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Boeing B-17E / B-17G Flying Fortress - СШАUSA - 1941

Received from Michael Gibson just too late to get into the P-register is this photograph of Lysander P9102, one of the small number delivered to the Free French in August 1940 and repainted by them with the Cross of Lorraine.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Westland Lysander - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1936

The Airspeed Oxford was a military aircraft while the Consul was its civil equivalent. In the normal way of things, military aircraft sometimes become civil aircraft without much more conversion that that afforded by a can of paint. However, some Consuls rebuilt as civil transports were converted back to military versions with a heftier punch than any Oxford built for military purposes.
The customer was the newly-independent Government of Burma which required a simple anti-insurgent aircraft of the type built before the war by France and Italy as 'colonial' aircraft and some years after the war by the United States as 'counter-insurgency' aircraft. The Consul can thus be counted as one of the first COIN aircraft to be delivered.
Two fixed Browning 0.303in machine guns were fitted in streamlined pods under the fuselage and attachment points provided under the wings for eight 25-lb rocket projectiles. A dorsal gun turret was specified, presumably a standard Oxford gunnery training turret, but it is not clear whether this was fitted on delivery.
Some civil Consuls were being operated in Burma so commonality probably played its part. UB-339 seems to have been the first and was tested at A&AEE to clear the armament installation but the Putnam book on Airspeed does not specify how many were bought.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Airspeed Consul / AS.65 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949

Among the captured Japanese aircraft tested at Singapore during the last quarter of 1945 was this Kawasaki Ki-45 KAIa Toryu twin-engined fighter. No.89 Squadron apparently flew it, probably for comparison tests with its Mosquitos after which it was presumably broken up.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Kawasaki Ki.45 Toryu - ЯпонияJapan - 1939

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Short Stirling / S.29 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

Westland Wapiti Mk.IIA J9636 of No.55 Squadron over Iraq, watchdog of the desert

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Westland Wapiti - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1927

We simply could not resist the photograph loaned by Charles Cain. On 29 July 1938, 250 members of the Officer Training Corps from a variety of schools were flown from Odiham and Boscombe Down to Gosport while attending summer camps at Aldershot and Tidworth. Which was quite a sizeable airlift for its time and probably more than the entire British airline system carried that day. Perched on the slopes of the Lee-on-Solent slipway (has anyone scheduled that as an ancient monument and if not, why not?), they watched a procession of Coastal Command types including one of the very first Sunderlands and the majestic Singapore illustrated.
According to the caption writer, there is a Walrus amphibian in the foreground. Perhaps it is just out of shot since the audience seem profoundly unmoved by the passage of the big boat...
Incidentally, it is K8567 from the Flying Boat Training Squadron at Calshot.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Short Singapore III / S.19 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1934

Single central floats were not often found on British seaplanes, in striking contrast to the United States where they were standard fitments on US Navy and civil seaplanes, not to mention the Loening and Grumman amphibians.
The central float on D.H.60M Moth K2235 was not intended as a standard fitment but was a scale hull for the Short Singapore II on a scale of 1:2.4. It was unusual in that it was not a standard airframe adapted to take the scale hull but was assembled at the Royal Aircraft Establishment from spare parts. The float itself underwent progressive modification until an optimum design was arrived at which became the basis for the highly-successful Singapore III hull. K2235 was struck off charge on 18 November 1938 at Felixstowe where the photograph was taken on 11 December 1933.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Gipsy Moth / Moth X - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928

Cine-film extracts show K2235 in action.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Gipsy Moth / Moth X - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928