Air Vehicle Collection (page 12)

The Hindenburg
1937: The German-built airship Hindenburg (LZ-129) flying over New York City, showing the swastika symbol on its tail. Filled with the flammable gas hydrogen

Ill Fated R-101
1929: The airship R101 at its mooring mast at Cardington, Bedfordshire. It crashed on its maiden voyage to India while over northern France. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Marine Airship
20th September 1913: A L2 Marine airship with three gondolas landing at Johannistal, after completing its maiden voyage from Freidrichshafen, Germany in thirteen hours

Zeppelin Ascending
circa 1915: A German Zeppelin ascending from its base for a raid on London. During World War I the Germans carried out 12 airship raids on London and many aeroplane attacks, killing some 530 people

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, lands on a snowy field, Teller, Alaska, May 13

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

Electric Airship
A model of an airship, built by the Tissandier brothers in 1843, on display at the Science Museum, London, 23rd June 1950

R-101 Over London
October 1929: Airship R101 passing over St Pauls Cathedral, London as seen from the new Telegraph building. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Army Flying Fortresses
3rd April 1944: US Army Fortresses fly in tier formation in manoeuvres over south east USA. This is in preparation for joining one of the Allied theatres of war overseas

Planes Over Paris
British bombers flying over Paris during World War II, circa 1943. At the bottom of the image is Les Invalides, near the south bank of the Seine. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Junkers Planes
circa 1943: German Junkers 86Ks in action. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Thunderbolts
15th March 1944: US Thunderbolts lined up for testing after their arrival in Britain prior to the D Day invasions. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone/Getty Images)

Formation Flying
circa 1940: US Airforce aircraft flying in formation. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Free French Aircraft
A squadron of the Free French Forces in the North African desert during World War II, circa 1940. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1916 Bi-Plane
July 1966: A 1916 seaplane bi-plane, the first model to be produced by the Boeing aircraft company is seen here flying again at Seattle Washington

Flying Fortress
circa 1955: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses belonging to the American army. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Braemar Bomber
1918: A Braemar Mark II bomber, which was developed for the bombing of Berlin but rendered obsolete by the armistice ans was modified to become a passenger plane

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