The photograph for this month's Picture Page is of a tail-less Washington at Tocumwal, NSW, on 3 September 1961, taken by John Hopton. It was A76-1 but the former serial WW583 is still carried on the fuselage. Is something hanging out of the bomb bay or is it a drum on the ground? The trees sprouting out of the top of the fuselage are not for camouflage purposes.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Boeing B-29 Superfortress - СШАUSA - 1942

HMS Hermes with Scimitars, Sea Vixens and Gannets on deck. A planeguard helicopter tags along astern.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Sea Vixen / D.H.110 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1951Fairey Gannet - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949Supermarine Scimitar - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1956

Two-seat Boulton & Paul-built Camel F1946 at Minchinhampton

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Sopwith Camel / F.1 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1916

Harrier XV780 of No.4 Squadron

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe Harrier - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1966

The large photograph depicts a Hurricane IIB fitted with RP racks for eight rockets. The '69' on the nose perhaps gives away the fact that it Is no standard RAF Hurricane but a Canadian-built example, possibly a Mk.XII or a Mk.XIIA, which had only eight guns. The outer gunports cannot be seen on the original. Nothing else is known of the identity, unit or location of the photograph.
The Canadian Hurricane has the standard rocket rails as fitted to the Mk.IV but it does not have the armour-plated radiator that came with ground-attack versions. So it is presumably a trials or training aircraft. On the Mk.XII, the outboard four guns projected slightly from the thinner section of the wing so that would make it a XIIA. The spinner is different from the Rotol version in being a straight-sided cone shape, much simpler to produce than the curved Rotol spinner. The Rotol propellers were only shipped out to Canada for trials purposes, Canadian-built aircraft being fitted with these on arrival in the U.K., RCAF aircraft being normally flown without spinners.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker Hurricane - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935

The photograph is captioned "16384 Kenley RAF Aerodrome - Judges Ltd" and shows a Bulldog of No.17 Squadron. Someone is standing in front of the fuselage serial and for some reason the number is not repeated on the rudder. Judges Postcards Ltd were at Hastings before the war. Are they still in business and did the firm have a collection of aviation photographs in their files? Where are they now?
A friend of Jack's gave him a similar photo to the Judge's postcard who believed it was taken in the summer of 1936. There are others in the series which our readers have found, including 'Syrinx' at Croydon so their photographers obviously got around. The card numbers 16335, 16337 and 16339 suggest the firm had a large stock, presumably of all types of subject.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bristol Bulldog - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1927

A Bulldog IVA with a Mercury VI-S2 engine. It has a long chord cowling and ailerons on both upper and lower wings.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bristol Bulldog - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1927

A Bulldog IVA with a Mercury VI-S2 engine. It has a long chord cowling and ailerons on both upper and lower wings.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bristol Bulldog - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1927

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bristol Bulldog - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1927

A73-60 at Avalon, Vic, June 1953, flies over a Canberra

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944English Electric / BAE Canberra - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949

Sud SA.330E Puma delivered in October 1968 as pattern aircraft

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Aerospatiale Puma / SA.330 - ФранцияFrance - 1965

Avro 504J E3785 at Minchinhampton

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Avro 504 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1913

Familiar sight at training airfields. Crashed Henry Farman F.20 1210.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Farman HF.15 / 16 / 20 / 22 - ФранцияFrance - 1912

Familiar sight at training airfields. Crashed Henry Farman F.20 1724.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Farman HF.15 / 16 / 20 / 22 - ФранцияFrance - 1912

A73-62 flying over Richmond RAAF Station, NSW

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

Line-up of No.1 Squadron Lincolns at Tengah, October 1952

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

The main assembly hangar at Fisherman's Bend on 17 September 1947 with A73-22 in foreground

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-2 at East Sale in March 1947 being prepared for a non-stop 2,500-mile flight to McQuarie Island, Antarctica

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-32 at Clark Field, Philippines, 4 June 1958

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

No.1 Squadron Lincolns on a round-Australia trip from Singapore in July 1958. A73-37 is in the foreground.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

The first official flight of A73-1 at Fisherman's Bend, Vic, on 12 March 1946

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-6 with armament removed

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-13 at Laverton, Vic, 30 March 1957. Dorsal turret and radar bulge have been removed.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-13 taxying at Laverton

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-9 landing at Fisherman's Bend. Note ACSEA-style roundel

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-39 flying low near Changi, 30 November 1951

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-62 at Richmond, NSW

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-2 at East Sale, Vic, in late 1946 was a survey version named 'Nyhuan'

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-4, probably at Garbutt, Old

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

Самолет Lincoln Mk 31 применялся только в австралийских ВВС. В его носовой части, удлиненной на 1,98 м, размещались дополнительные члены экипажа для морской разведки. Она уравновешивалась массой оборудования, перемещенного в хвостовую часть фюзеляжа. 19 таких самолетов были переделаны из собранных австралийцами машин Mk 30A и служили в 10-й эскадрилье.
Long-nosed A73-55 with kangaroo roundel

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-22 at Wagga, NSW, as Instructional No.3, 17 September 1962

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

A73-39 derelict at Changi

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

The nose of A73-62 outside Harold Thomas' hangar at Camden, NSW, 21 July 1968

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

Lerwick L7257 'TA-S' of No.4 OTU, Evanton, September 1941

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

Original and revised rudder shapes on L7248

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

L7248 on its beaching gear at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Felixstowe, for trials

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

L7248 with twin fins and rudders on the water at Helensburgh

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

Moored at MAEE Helensburgh, L7248 showing off the twin fin and rudder modification.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

L7252 goes into hastily-applied camouflage at the outbreak of war and loses its serial

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

Detail of the rear fuselage of L7248 during the tail layout trials. Note the final form of the rudder, the large finlets and the tufting.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Saunders-Roe Lerwick / S.36 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1938

One of the advantages of cruising in the Channel in the late 1930s was the chance of snapping, with a ubiquitous Box Brownie, a Heinkel He 60C on the catapult of a Panzerschiffe. In this case, she seems to be 'Admiral Graf Spee', beloved by the press as a 'Pocket Battleship'. Such was the fervour for this name that even today documentaries on TV refer to 'Tirpitz' as a pocket battleship, all 52,600 tons of her!

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Heinkel He-60 - ГерманияGermany - 1931

A tailpiece to the item on No.271 Squadron in AM.3/87 is the photograph of the wreckage of the squadron's Harrows at Melsbroek on 1 January 1944.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Handley Page Harrow / H.P.54 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1936

Trying to right a Lodestar in the desert. The letters G and R appear on the camouflaged wing; the other letters?
The crashed Lodestar is, John Davis reckons, G-AGCR which crashed at Malta on 13 May 1942 when the port undercarriage leg collapsed on landing, presumably at Luqa. Or was it on take-off as other readers suggest? Apparently it caught fire but there seems no sign of this and such incidents were usually terminal on Lockheed twins like the Hudson and Lodestar. The undercarriage leg tended to rupture a fuel tank and flood the hot engine with petrol. The evacuation record for these aircraft tended to be of Olympic standards.
Another possibility given by Jack is G-AGBR which survived the war. It is reasonably intact in the photograph so could have had an accident that was less drastic than G-AGCR's.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Lockheed Lodestar L-18/C-59/R5O - СШАUSA - 1939

Also from John comes the photo of the mock-up for the Tudor Is intended to be built in Australia by the Government Aircraft Factory at Fisherman's Bend. Twelve were to be produced and the RAAF serial block A76 was allotted. However, the problems with Tudors already built in the UK resulted in the programme not proceeding further than the mock-up.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Tudor / Type 688/689 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

The flying boat is, we are fairly certain, built by Norman-Thompson but it does not seem to be the common NT.2B version as the tail is wrong. The bridge in the background is, presumably, Littlehampton's swing bridge and the Norman-Thompson works were just along the coast at Bognor Regis. The union flag on the rudder suggests an early version of this little flying boat. The main production of two-seat training boats were NT.2Bs used at Lee-on-Solent and Calshot and they were also built by Saunders at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and Supermarine at Woolston.
The flying boat at Littlehampton is not a Norman Thompson but a White & Thompson No.3, probably serial 1195, the first of eight known to have been built and given the serials 1195-1200, 3807 and 3808. There is a close resemblance to the Norman Thompson boats but we did say the tail looked wrong. The White & Thompson company at Middleton-on-Sea, Bognor, changed its name to Norman Thompson later in the war.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: White & Thompson NT.2 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1915

Jet Provost T.5 XW302 of No.1 FTS

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hunting Percival Jet Provost / P.84 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1954

D.H.53 Humming Bird J-7272; at Northolt ?

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Humming Bird / D.H.53 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1923

The Beardmore Inverness, seen at Felixstowe, was in fact the Rohrbach Ro IV built in Copenhagen. One of a series of metal flying boats built in Denmark to avoid the Allied Control Commission in Germany, the two Ro IVs in the UK contributed much to the Beardmore Inflexible.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Rohrbach Ro.II - Ro.IV - ГерманияGermany - 1923

It was August 1908 before trials were resumed from the battleship Revenge and TBD Fervent. On 18 August, a man went aloft from the latter and four more on the 24th from Revenge. Cody himself ascended from TBD Recruit on 31 August, but ended up in the water. After more trials, the project was abandoned on various grounds. The photograph was taken aboard Recruit in September 1908 and there is a cowboy hat among the crew. Was this Cody himself?
Dick Cronin comments on the kite aboard HMS Recruit. At first sight it seems odd to be streaming a kite from the forecastle and not from the stern, which would be the logical place. However, an 1895-model TBD was rather short of parking space for a winch and the quarterdeck was crowded, including a six-pounder on a raised platform. There is also the possibility that the kite used one of the two capstans as an anchorage. If any reader has served aboard an 1895 TBD, perhaps he will enlighten us.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Cody Man-lifting kite - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1904

A two-seat Hurricane with open cockpits. It later had a canopy fitted for the rear cockpit. Given the serial 2-31, it was previously KZ232. Just what the purpose of a front open cockpit was on an aircraft intended to train fighter pilots remains obscure. Sixteen unarmed single-seaters were also shipped to Iran.
Only one was supplied to Iran for use in pilot conversion and as this normally only required circuits and bumps, the hood would normally have been open in any case so why waste money on one? The instructor, presumably because he had to crane his neck to see what the pupil was up to, merited a hood as he was probably spending a lot more time in the air! Even in Russia, they flew two-seat Hurricanes without any hoods at all...

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker Hurricane Trainer - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946