Aeronautics Collection (page 5)

Felix Nadar, half-length portrait, standing in the basket of a balloon, holding binoculars. Date 1897

La daguerreotypomanie. French cartoon about the rush to try photography after Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre revealed his process in 1839

Gloster Gorcock fitted with a D-shaped radiator

One of two pattern Gloster Gamecock II aircraft built fo?
One of two pattern Gloster Gamecock II aircraft built for the Finnish Air Force

Nord 2501D Noratlas, GA108, of the German Air Force

RNAS Curtiss H12 Large America, 8651

Saab J35D Draken, 35344

Saab J35 Draken

Aerial view of Battle of Somme

Saab B17

Three Republic F-105D Thunderchiefs, 58-1161, 58-1163 an?
Three Republic F-105D Thunderchiefs, 58-1161, 58-1163 and 58-1164

Republic F-84G Thunderjet, 51-767, takes on fuel from a ?
Republic F-84G Thunderjet, 51-767, takes on fuel from a Boeing KB-29, 44-86398

Republic P-84 Thunderjet showing how the engine is accessed

Bell Model 47G-3 hovers atop Pikes Peak with pilot and f?
Bell Model 47G-3 hovers atop Pikes Peak with pilot and five passengers

Bell Model 47G-3B-1, N73214

Auster J / 5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile ?
Auster J/5R Alpine, G-APa, belonging to the Automobile Association at the 1957 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 September

Miss A. A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Wh?
Miss A.A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Whitney Straight, G-AFGK, at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

Lord Brabazon of Tara and Marshal of the RAF, Lord Tedde?
Lord Brabazon of Tara and Marshal of the RAF, Lord Tedder conversing at the Royal Aeronautical Society?s 80th anniversary dinner at Guildhall, London, on 11 January 1946

Santos-Dumont airship No6 rounding the Eiffel Tower in t?
Santos-Dumont airship No6 rounding the Eiffel Tower in the process of winning the Deutsch Prize

The first flight of Santos-Dumont airship No5 from Longc?
The first flight of Santos-Dumont airship No5 from Longchamps

Cover design, Air Union timetable, serving London and Paris. Travel By Air -- Pleasure, Comfort, Speed, Regularity, Safety. Showing a stylised red plane flying over fields. circa 1928

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Leaflet design, Lufthansa
Leaflet design, Deutsche Lufthansa, offering Aerobus flights between Cologne and Frankfurt, and steamer trips on the Rhine between Cologne and Dusseldorf. circa 1926

Poster, Indias First Aerial Pageant
Poster, Captain C. D. Barnard presents Indias First Aerial Pageant, with passenger flights in the famous monoplane Spider, parachute descents, daring acrobatics by famous pilots

Swedish airline poster, Sveriges Flygforbindelser, 1 September - 31 October 1934, showing a map of Europe with flight routes. 1934

Maison tournante aerienne. Drawing shows a dwelling structure elevated above rooftops and designed to revolve and adjust in various directions

Ilyushin and test pilot Kokkinaki, 1942
Soviet aircraft designer Sergei Ilyushin (centre right) and test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki (left, in overalls), talking with a group of soldiers in front of an aircraft during World War II

Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"aircraft with model wing suspended, June 22, 1921
Curtiss JN-4 " Jenny" aircraft with model wing suspended, June 22, 1921. Active aircraft biplane, NACA 29-38131, with model wing suspended during flight

Harry N. Atwood, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harry N. Atwood, between c1910 and c1915. Shows aviator Harry Nelson Atwood (1884-1967).

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, between c1910 and c1915.

J.E. Harriman's Aerocar, 1910 or 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
J.E. Harriman's Aerocar, 1910 or 1911. Shows patent drawing of John Emery Harriman.

Sopwith & Mrs. Chudoba, woman passenger, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Sopwith & Mrs. Chudoba, woman passenger, 1911. Shows aviator Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) in an airplane.

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane, between c1910 and c1915.

Malcolm Allison - with glider, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Malcolm Allison - with glider, between c1910 and c1915.

Mathieu, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mathieu, between c1910 and c1915.

Assman's Balloon, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Assman's Balloon, between c1910 and c1915. Shows William F. Assmann's balloon Miss Sofia beside a gasometer.

Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Shows hydroplane designed by Frank Herbert "Bert" Harriman, an early aviation pioneer.

Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Shows hydroplane designed by Frank Herbert "Bert" Harriman, an early aviation pioneer.

Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harriman Hydroaeroplane, between c1910 and c1915. Shows hydroplane designed by Frank Herbert "Bert" Harriman, an early aviation pioneer.

Near Baden Baden from airship, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Near Baden Baden from airship, between c1910 and c1915.

Fuselage of NC-1, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Fuselage of NC-1, 1918 or 1919. Shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-1 possibly late 1918 or 1919.

Vicenzo Lunardi, 1754-1806. Italian pioneering aeronaut and inventor (engraving)
6118004 Vicenzo Lunardi, 1754-1806. Italian pioneering aeronaut and inventor (engraving); Photo © Ken Welsh. All rights reserved 2024

Alexander Graham Bell (right) experimenting with an x-beam tetrahedral kite, designer Mr
NWI4948745 Alexander Graham Bell (right) experimenting with an x-beam tetrahedral kite, designer Mr. Baldwin next to Dr Bell

A balloon manufactured by Henri Lachambre
2623752 A balloon manufactured by Henri Lachambre; (add.info.: Colour lithograph advertising a balloon manufactured by the French balloon manufacturer, Henri Lachambre (1846-1904)

A crowd viewing fireworks on Bastille Day celebration in Paris, 1801 (engraving)
2623672 A crowd viewing fireworks on Bastille Day celebration in Paris, 1801 (engraving); (add.info.: Hand-coloured etching depicting a crowd viewing fireworks on Bastille Day celebration in Paris)

Young lady paying calls by personal airship among a maze of telegraph and telephone wires
531689 Young lady paying calls by personal airship among a maze of telegraph and telephone wires. Robida's idea of world in 1953

Dutch cartoon, 1794 predicting advance of ballooning by 1804. Basket/gondola hangs from the ceiling
528370 Dutch cartoon, 1794 predicting advance of ballooning by 1804. Basket/gondola hangs from the ceiling, women and children in hysterics as two prospective aeronauts make wills

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