Air Vehicle Collection (#10)

Norge Returns
April 1926: Italian airship Norge returning from its Great North Pole Adventure to be hauled down by the landing party. The semirigid craft has a capacity of 18.4 million litres

Sea Lion III
September 1923: The Vickers Supermarine Sea Lion III during preparations for the Scheider Cup race at Cowes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

R38 Construction
15th December 1919: Construction of the rigid airship R38 in a large hangar at Messrs Short, Bedford, Bedfordshire. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

R-100 Airship First Public View
29th November 1929: The first public view of the completed R100 airship in a hangar at Howden, Yorkshire. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Children Watch Planes
29th June 1928: Schoolchildren watch bombers rehearsing for the Royal Airforce display and pageant at Hendon Aerodrome, London. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

In The Clouds
May 1910: Louis Paulhan in his Henri Farman III, in the clouds at Lichfield during the Daily Mail London to Manchester air race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Aircraft
1910: A crowd gathered around an aircraft at Claude Grahame-Whites passenger flights event at Ranleagh. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship Crash
May 1911: The remains of an airship hanging in a tree as a group search the wreckage of the Le Baudy disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dornier Flying Boat
circa 1930: The Do R4 Dornier Flying Boat invented by German pioneer Claude Dornier (1884 - 1969). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Zeppelin Skeleton
February 1919: The framework of a Zeppelin airship, being built at the Short Brothers Works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Race Rest
23rd April 1910: Claude Grahame-Whites Farman plane attracts a large crowd at Hademore, after descending for a rest during the London - Manchester air race of 1910

Flying Over Bridge
October 1926: Alan Cobhams (1894 - 1973), aircraft flying over crowds of well-wishers on Westminster Bridge, London, after his record-breaking flight from Australia

Frame Of Zeppelin
February 1919: The wooden frame of a zeppelin under construction at Short Brothers Works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Barton Airship
1906: Doctor Bartons airship tethered in Alexandra Park, north London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Sewing
September 1905: A woman sewing hot air balloon silk at the Short Brothers hot air balloon factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Berliner Helicopter
The 1922 Berliner Helicopter, designed by Henry Berliner (1895 - 1970), USA, June 1922. The aircraft is built around a Nieuport 23 fighter fuselage

Wrights Biplane
29th March 1910: Alex Ogilvies Wright biplane at Camber Sands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship
22nd October 1924: US Navy airship Shenandoah. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship
27th October 1926: US Navy airship anchored at the Ford Airport, Detroit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

DWC World Cruisers
4th April 1924: A crowd gathers to watch the departure of the four Douglas DWC World Cruisers of the US Air Service from the company airfield at Santa Monica in California

R-101 Mooring
17th October 1929: R101 airship on the mooring mast at Cardington, Bedford. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Record Attempt
2nd March 1920: A Vickers Vimy G-EaV entered by The Times newspaper for an attempt on the record for a flight to South Africa. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship Balloon
circa 1930: The balloon of an airship when inflated floats in its hangar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

R38 At Home
June 1921: The nose of the newly completed airship R38 seen in the entrance to its hangar at Messrs. Shorts Works, Cardington, Bedfordshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fokker Transportation
March 1916: A German Fokker aircraft is transported by road in occupied France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship R38
June 1921: The airship R38 in a hangar at Bedford. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Napier Cub
November 1922: A 1000 hp Napier Cub Aero stands beside a baby Avro at Hamble, Hampshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Factory Visit
9th January 1930: Visitors to the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester where the all-steel fighting planes Bristol Bulldogs are constructed

Hauling Horatius
13th December 1935: A tiny tractor at Croydon airport pulling the giant Handley Page air-liner, Horatius to the hangar after a Paris flight. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bristol Helicopter
circa 1950: A Bristol type 171 helicopter belonging to the Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fighter Factory
9th January 1930: Factory at Filton, Gloucester where Bristol Bulldog all-steel fighting machines are being constructed for Australia. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Painting Wings
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, spraying identification markings onto the wings of the Bristol Bulldog

DH Dragon Rapide
22nd March 1935: The Air Councils latest plane, a De Havilland Dragon Rapide, making its trial flights at the De Havilland Aerodrome at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. (Photo by J. A)

Bulldog Jupiter
9th January 1930: Mechanics at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester, adjusting a Bristol Jupiter engine during the manufacture of a Bristol Bulldog aircraft. (Photo by Edward G)

Avro Lancastrian
13th September 1946: A Lancastrian aircraft in flight at the trade show at Handley Page airfield in Radlett, Hertfordshire

Shaping Propellers
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester shaping and balancing propellers for the Bristol Bulldog

Bellamy Aeroplane
9th March 1907: A rear view of the Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit, Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vizcaya Bridge, Portugalete
Portugalete is famously known for its transporter bridge. The car ferry is suspended from a frame by wires attached to wheels on tracks above the cabin

Qutb Minar minaret with aircraft flying above, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, New Delhi, India

Hot air balloon over Love Valley, Cappadocia
Hot air balloon over Love Valley near Goreme and Nevsehir in the center of Cappadocia, Turkey (region of Anatolia). This shot taken shortly after sunrise from another balloon

Early morning hot air ballons in Cappadocia
Hot air balloons in Cappadocia goreme region in the early morning. Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia in Turkey

Croydon Airport
24th March 1930: Passengers waiting to board an aircraft at Croydon Airport, London, bound for the Grand National in Liverpool. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Watching The Races
3rd June 1924: An observation balloon at the Derby at Epsom. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Journeys End
circa 1952: A fireman trains a hose on a crater from which smoke is rising after a plane crash at South Benfleet, Essex. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Checking In
Passengers waiting at the check-in counters at Heathrow Airport, London

Barbaras Glider
circa 1930: Romance novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) poses beside the glider in which she made the first long distance towed journey in England, from Hanworth to Reading

B-17 Flying Fortress

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