Blimp Collection (page 3)

Airborne
3rd June 1919: NS-11 airship over the city (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

HMS Queen Elizabeth with the fleet at Southend
July 1919: NS-7 airship over His Majestys Ship Queen Elizabeth with the fleet at Southend, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Inflating Airship
circa 1910: A French airship, with a Dansette motor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Burney
15th September 1930: The Burney, a new streamlined car designed by Sir Denniston Burney who was responsible for the design of the R 100 (R100) airship. The engine is in the rear

Willows Airship
25th August 1910: The Willows airship which made the first channel crossing is parked at the Crystal Palace. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

British Navy
12th May 1911: Sailors outside the hangar of Britains first naval airship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayfly Launch
12th May 1911: The first naval airship, the Mayfly in her hangar before launch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Astra Stand
circa 1910: The Astra stand showing the carriage of the latest Astra airship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Mayfly
23rd May 1911: The launching of the first naval airship, the Mayfly. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Inflation Gas
12th May 1911: Storage of the gas cylinders for filling Britains first naval airship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flight Preparations
17th May 1911: Britains first airship later called The Mayfly being prepared for flight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Zeppelin
circa 1908: The most famous of all airships the Zeppelin. Invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838 - 1917) which first flew on the 2nd July 1900 and was of the dirigible (or rigid) type

Airship Moored
October 1910: The Clement Bayard Airship on its mooring on arrival from Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

R-100 Airship Tail
3rd September 1929: The tail view of the R100 airship. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Watching Airship
22nd July 1905: A crowd at Alexandra Palace, north London, watching the Barton-Rawson airship prepare to ascend. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

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

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)

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)

War Torn House
July 1915: A house in Shoreditch, London with half of its facade missing after a Zeppelin raid during World War I. (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)

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

Crowd In Street
July 1915: A crowd in a street in Shoreditch in east London in front of a gutted house which was hit during a zeppelin raid. (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)

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)

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

Baby Balloon
19th May 1909: Soldiers preparing to release baby an army war balloon during a demonstration at Aldershot. (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)

Poster for an Airshow

Airship Over The Speedway
A blimp flies over Sheepshead Bay Speedway as spectators watch and talk amongst themselves, Brooklyn, New York, late 1910s

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

Shenandoah
The christening of the US Airship USS Shenandoah (American Indian name, Daughter Of The Stars ) at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The first helium filled rigid airship

Santos-Dumont Airship
The Santos-Dumont dirigible airship No 16, built in 1903. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

British Army Baby
A crowd of people at Aldershot watching the British Armys new airship Baby being demonstrated. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayfly Unveiling
H M Airship No 1, built in Barrow as a response to German advances in airship technology, slowly emerges from her hangar prior to its maiden test-flight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship Norge
The airship Norge, piloted by Italian Umberto Nobile and commissioned by explorer Roald Amundsen for his failed attempt to reach the North Pole

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

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)

Early Zeppelin
A passenger carrying Zeppelin operated by the German Delag, the first scheduled airline company, in France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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