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Air Vehicle Collection (#11)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Directors Plane

Directors Plane
19th September 1953: A plane belonging to a director of brewery firm, Ind Coope in which he travels the country visiting the pubs belonging to the company

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Balloon Post

Balloon Post
A balloon leaves Paris by night, carrying mail out of the city during the siege by Prussian forces, December 1870. Original publication: Illustrated London News

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Balloon At Montmartre

Balloon At Montmartre
A captive balloon at Montmartre, Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, circa 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Balloon Rides

Balloon Rides
4th October 1863: French caricaturist, writer, portrait photographer, balloonist and showman Gaspard Felix Tournachon Nadar (1820 - 1910) flies his giant balloon, Le Geant

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Commune Balloons

Commune Balloons
1871: Balloons in the Place St Pierre during the Paris Commune rising of 1871. M. Nadar snr used to make ascents from this place as reconnaisance photographer during the siege of Paris

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Steam Power

Steam Power
1820: An illustrators comic vision of future pollution from various modes of steam-powered transport. People are represented as walking, riding and flying by steam

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: German Biplane Flies Over a Field

German Biplane Flies Over a Field
circa 1910: A German biplane flies over a field. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: circa 1909: French Aviator Louis Bleriot

circa 1909: French Aviator Louis Bleriot, the first pilot to fly from Calais to Dover in a monoplane, flies across the English Channel. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh
29th May 1927: American aviator Charles Lindbergh arriving at Croydon from America. Lindbergh is the first man to fly from America to England. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Spirit Of St Louis

Spirit Of St Louis
21st May 1927: US aviator Charles Lindberghs monoplane Spirit of St Louis landing at Le Bourget Paris after his non-stop solo transatlantic flight from New York City. (Photo by H. F)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Parade For Lindbergh

Parade For Lindbergh
June 1927: A tickertape parade on Broadway, New York, to welcome home US aviator Charles Lindbergh following his non-stop solo Atlantic flight from New York to Paris

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Lindberghs Return

Lindberghs Return
June 1927: New York City celebrates Charles Lindberghs return with a ticker-tape parade, after his non-stop one-man transatlantic flight from New York to Paris

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Lindberghs Plane

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

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Spirit of St. Louis Landing In Croydon

Spirit of St. Louis Landing In Croydon
29th May 1927: Charles Lindbergh flying into Croydon after his record breaking flight across the Atlantic. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Ava In Flight

Ava In Flight
1926: The new Ava bomber descending after its public maiden flight at the Royal Airforce display and pageant at Hendon Aerodrome, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Hindenburg Fire

Hindenburg Fire
The German-built dirigible Hindenburg (Zeppelin LZ 129) catches fire in the stern while trying to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship Pax

Airship Pax
Brazilian born inventor Augusto Severos colourful airship Pax. Severo was killed in Paris in 1902 when the airship rose steeply and exploded. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: La France Dirigible

La France Dirigible
The first fully controllable air dirigible La France, designed by Captain Charles Renard and Lieutenant Arthur Krebs, at Chalais-Meudon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: R 34 Flight

R 34 Flight
6th July 1919: R 34 Airship (gasbug) slowly descending at Mineola, New York, having made the first leg of its two-way Atlantic flight, July 1919. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Akron Airship

Akron Airship
1933: The worlds largest airship the Akron, used by the US Navy, flying over Philadelphia. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Baldwin Airship

Baldwin Airship
1905: The Baldwin airship, rising from the ground at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: British Fleet

British Fleet
July 1914: An airship, the Gamma, is seen flying over the Royal Yacht as George V reviews the Fleet at Spithead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Le Baudy Airship

Le Baudy Airship
circa 1911: A group watching Le Baudy airship take off the passengers travelling on an open platform supported by a framework of struts. The airship later crashed

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship

Airship
12th March 1979: AD 500 airship wheeled out for trials at Cardignton. (Photo by Mike Stephens/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: The Schwaben

The Schwaben
circa 1925: A German airship, the Schwaben which was destroyed by an explosion. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship R33

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

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship Ascends

Airship Ascends
24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Venetian Airship

Venetian Airship
circa 1910: Parseval, an Italian airship flying over the Campanile of San Marco, Venice. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship

Airship
1917: A British airship attached to its mooring. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: R 101 Moored

R 101 Moored
October 1929: Airship R101 moored to a control tower at Cardington. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: ZR3

ZR3
August 1924: The enormous German built Zeppelin ZR3, re-christened the Los Angeles, in a hangar in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship Echelon

Airship Echelon
March 1944: An echelon of airships from the US Naval Airforce glide across the sky over California. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: German Airship

German Airship
circa 1920: German airship Bodensee. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: American Airship

American Airship
October 1923: The ZR-1 renamed Shenandoah. Largest airship of her time and the first to be filled with helium. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Doomed Airship

Doomed Airship
6th May 1937: Aerial view of the German-made dirigible the Hindenburg flying over New York City on its transatlantic voyage from Frankfurt, Germany to Lakehurst naval airfield in New Jersey

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Zeppelin Airship

Zeppelin Airship
August 1924: Zeppelin Airship ZR3, later called Los Angeles, Gas bags after 3 hours of inflation. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Experimental Flight

Experimental Flight
2nd April 1925: The R33 airship making an experimental flight from Bedfordshire to Pulham, the first trip of its kind for four years. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAir Vehicle Collection: Airship C5

Airship C5
circa 1925: American airship C5 leaving Montauk Point, New York for a journey to Newfoundland. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)



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