H Air Airs 1900 1919 Collection

Nulli Secundus
Britains first military airship, Nulli Secundus, 110 ft in length, 28 ft in diameter. Suspended from the balloon by a network of cordage is a framework of bamboo and aluminium

Inflating Airship
circa 1910: Filling the envelope of Spencer Airship during inflation. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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

Spencer Airship
A Spencer Airship ascending at Ranelagh, watched by a fashionable crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vast R34 Airship
Britains R 34 airship moored in Mineola, New York, on the first leg of the first return-crossing of the Atlantic by air in July 1919, under Major G H Scott and a crew of 31 plus one stowaway

Airship In Flight
June 1919: An SST-9 airship in flight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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