bristolf2b

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Goggles, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Good photo.

Wow what an amazing piece of history. Love the shot :)

My late grandfather Jack Wilson MM trained with the RFC/RAF as a fighter pilot in 1918. He trained in Avros & Bristol Fighters, Crail, Scotland. I went solo after fifteen hours. This morning I’d been up and down a few times before breakfast with Captain Dean. He climbs out of the pilot’s seat and turns to me. You’re off on your own. He talked to me like a father. Twenty minutes to half an hour.He said. I’ll wait for you here and then we’ll go and get some breakfast. So I went up and flew around a bit. All of this & more in a 25,000 word verbatim memoir from interviews conducted with Jack Wilson MM in his 97th year.

The plane in the foreground appears to be a Bristol F.2B Fighter, recognizeable by the unusual gap between the fuselage and the bottom wing. I wish these photos were available in a larger size. Are the originals this small ? Or did someone reduce their size before uploading to Flickr ? .

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for another photo presumably on the same visit. Queen Mary is wearing the same dress and hat.

Another priceless old photo ! .

kul

Here is a cleaned version of this iconic image