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Airplane Racing Collection

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Macchi Varese

Macchi Varese
circa 1928: A record breaking plane, the Italian Macchi Varese Type 52 seaplane which won the 1926 Schneider Cup. It has a 12 cylinder A93 engine capable of 512 kilometres per hour

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Steady Nerve

Steady Nerve
1929: Mr Glnny and his aeroplane Gadfly banking as he flies under a bridge at Brooklands race course. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Low Flying

Low Flying
1929: Mr Glnny and his aeroplane Gadfly flying under a bridge at Brooklands race course. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Aviation Meeting

Aviation Meeting
22nd November 1912: G Sabelli just beating LWF Turner at an aviation meeting at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Aerial Pageant

Aerial Pageant
July 1920: Crowds at an aerial pageant at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Farmans Aeroplane

Farmans Aeroplane
27th April 1910: Crowds surround Grahame-Whites Farman aeroplane at Polesworth while taking part in the London to Manchester flight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Wright Machine

Wright Machine
1st August 1909: Paul Tissandiers Wright Biplane at the Reims Aviation Week, with tail number 4 and its launching pylon and rails

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Monoplane In Flight

Monoplane In Flight
25th September 1913: The American monoplane flown by W L Brock at the International Air Race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Information Board

Information Board
August 1910: The information board for the air races at Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Aerial Derby

Aerial Derby
6th June 1914: Louis Noel, the winner at the Aerial Derby at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Lanark Hangars

Lanark Hangars
August 1910: The hangars as seen from the grand stand at the Lanark Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Race At Hendon

Air Race At Hendon
August 1913: Pilots Birchenough and Carr flying Grahame-White biplanes in the final race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Climbing Aloft

Climbing Aloft
24th July 1911: A spectator climbs onto the roof of a car for a better view at the Harrogate leg of the Round Britain Air Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Doncaster Flight

Doncaster Flight
19th October 1909: A plane flying past the first pylon in the Leeds Cup, during Doncaster Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Hendon Aerodrome

Hendon Aerodrome
22nd July 1911: Spectators watching a competitor arriving at Hendon during the Daily Mail Round Britain Air Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Flying Race

Flying Race
7th September 1912: The start of the flying race from Dublin to Belfast Leopardstown. (Photo by Desmond Arthur Stanton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: A Failed Flight

A Failed Flight
18th June 1910: Grahame White crashes his plane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: In Flight

In Flight
July 1910: Planes flying over the hangars at a Bournemouth Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Seaplane Race

Seaplane Race
4th September 1919: Jacques Schneider Trophy National Seaplane Race, Hawkers Sopwith seaplane at East Cowes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Show

Air Show
18th October 1909: Summers flying around a pylon during Doncaster Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Race

Air Race
August 1910: Blondeau in flight on Farman in the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Aerial Derby

Aerial Derby
20th September 1913: Aerial Derby in Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Fairey Entrant

Fairey Entrant
4th September 1919: Fairey machine at East Cowes in the Schneider Trophy national Seaplane Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: AVRO Entry

AVRO Entry
11th September 1919: The AVRO entry in the Schneider International Seaplane Race, Bournemouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Enchanted Waters

Enchanted Waters
16th August 1913: During a waterplane race round Britain, Lieutenant Travers on his seaplane pays a visit to the Enchantress. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Balloon Contest

Balloon Contest
13th July 1912: A balloon contest at Hurlingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Shorts Shamrock

Shorts Shamrock
1st April 1919: The Short Shamrock bi-plane which had to withdraw from the Daily Mail Transatlantic Competition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Ready For The Off

Ready For The Off
circa 1920: Hot air balloons about to take off. The name Gordon Bennett, a wealthy American journalist who was a sponsor of ballooning, is clearly displayed on two of them. (Photo by M)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Racing Start

Racing Start
15th August 1931: One of the two flying-boats engaged in a race to the Red Sea and back, a Saunders- Roe A 7, about to take off from Felixstowe Seaplane Station, Kent. (Photo by A)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Schneider Entrant

Schneider Entrant
19th August 1929: A Gloster Napier 6, one of the aircraft with which Britain hopes to retain the 1929 Schneider Trophy, at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Race

Air Race
25th September 1913: Claude Grahame White in the First International Air Race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Race

Air Race
August 1910: Cattaneo in open competition at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: British Air Heroes

British Air Heroes
circa 1926: The sea planes of Captain W H Pulford and his companions alighting at the Lee on Solent after flying 14, 000 miles from Cairo to the Cape. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Sea Lion III

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)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: In The Clouds

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)

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Air Race Rest

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

Background imageAirplane Racing Collection: Bellamy Aeroplane

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)


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