RFC info on photos

[morrisc8]

Can you help with any info on these old original RFC photos i have in my collection.

On the back of some of the photos, Two of the photos have the name Hunt on the back, has rank of 2nd Lt in one photo, Plane crash with number A8557 [ if you know of a better hole on back of photo ], photo of Bristol Fighter, photo of Beally Wright plane { egg Beater }.

  Thanks for any help.

     Keith

 

[morrisc8]

The photos might have been taken in the uk?

[topgun1918]

A8557 was an Avro 504A, fitted with dual controls.  It served with No 64 Training Squadron at Sedgeford until 19 August 1917 when it stalled on a turn after engine failure at 300 feet, spun and went into a vertical nose-dive; Lieut E C Weegar was injured.

 

I can't make out the serial number of the Bristol Fighter, but a few did serve with Training Squadrons in the UK during 1917.

 

Graeme

 

[Errol Martyn]

Just a minor note: the 'egg beater' is actually a Beatty-Wright.

 

George W. Beatty was an American pilot who came to England prior to the war. He brought with him a Wright Biplane but by 1914 had set up his own flying school at Hendon, where he and his staff also constructed a number of Beatty-Wright biplanes.

 

Errol

[morrisc8]

Thanks Graeme and Errol for the info.

2nd Lt Hunt is with a vickers mg, any info on him

  More on the Beatty-Wright that i found on the web.

http://www.ww1-planes.com/UK/British-Prototypes-WW1.php

 

Edited 7 May , 2019 by morrisc8

[morrisc8]

More on the Beatty-Wright, might be him in the plane  guy next to petrol tank ?.

 

http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebeatty.htm

 

Edited 7 May , 2019 by morrisc8