by Andrew Gill | Aug 27, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus, Transport
The RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) was the Royal Navy’s air department during the First World War. These pilots are a happy crew but they were flying early biplanes on very hazardous missions and their chances of returning to base must have been small. The... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 8, 2021 | Gallery, I didn’t expect that!, Places, Transport
The original caption on this photograph is ‘Bleriot plane, Filey’. Bleriot was an early pioneering aviator, famous for his designs and flying expertise but we don’t think this is him. What was this pilot doing at Filey on Yorkshire’s east coast... 