Aerodrome Collection

Fly! Airship! Fly
March 1919: Airship R33 during its take off for its maiden flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. (Photo by R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship R33
March 1919: The British airship R33 in its hangar as it prepares for its first ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. (Photo by R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Golden Ray Fleet
French Air Unions fleet of Breguet and Bleriot Golden Ray (Rayon d Or) passenger planes at Le Bourget aerodrome near Paris, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the airlines London-Paris service

Gale Force
November 1918: Remains of a plane and a hangar after a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gale Damage
November 1918: Wrecked planes as a result of a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hangar Time
March 1919: Airship R33 leaving its hangar for its first ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. (Photo by R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

London To Paris
An Airco DH4A biplane, G-EAJC, of the British airline, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, about to leave Hounslow Heath Aerodrome (later Heathrow), London, for Le Bourget, Paris

Airship Norge
April 1926: Italian airship Norge arriving at Pulham aerodrome in Norfolk on its Great North Pole Adventure. The semirigid craft has a capacity of 18.4 million litres

Great 20th Century Explorers
The semi-rigid N-class airship Norge (Norwegian for Norway ), which was used by the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Expedition to fly over the North Pole, sits in a hangar as workers prepare it for flight

Lindberghs Plane
29th May 1927: US aviator Charles Lindberghs aeroplane flying above welcoming crowds at Croydon aerodrome, following his record-setting non-stop solo transatlantic crossing from New York to Paris

Airship R33
April 1925: British airship R33 leaving Pulham aerodrome, Norfolk. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Great 20th Century Explorers
The ill-fated semi-rigid N-class airship N1 (aka Italia ) makes a stopover at an airfield before continuing on with Italian general Umberto Nobiles second expedition to overfly the North Pole, Stolp

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