Flights Collection (#5)

White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus), flying, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Red flying object in the grey sky, 3D computer graphics

Many colourful balloons in a green landscape, Allgaeu, Germany, Europe

Buzzard (Buteo buteo) landing, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

First Flight between Liege and Paris on Sabena Airlines
First Flight between Liege, Belgium and Paris, France on Sabena Airlines. Date: 1947

Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, France
Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, Aisne department in Picardy, France. A beggar sits at the foot of the long stair, holding out his hat in hope of a charitable donation

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding at Rochford, was the only Courier to survive WW2 and operated on pleasure flights and taxi work for East Anglian Flying Services

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten on two record-breaking flights

Blackburn L1A Bluebird II G-EBSW
Blackburn L1A Bluebird II, G-EBSW, which made Round Britain and German flights in 1928. Date: 1928

de Havilland DH50J G-EBFO as flown by Alan Cobham
de Havilland DH50J, G-EBFO, as flown by Alan Cobham on his World Survey Flights

Junkers Ju52 / 3m D-AQUI is still used for pleasure flights
Junkers Ju52/3m, D-AQUI, is still used for pleasure flights by Lufthansa

The first Convair XB-36 42-13570 before test flights
The first Convair XB-36, 42-13570, before test flights had started. 24 June 1946. Date: 1946

Glider flights 1853 From Cayleys original notebook
Glider flights. 1853. From Cayleys original notebook

Otto Lilienthal (1848-96) German aeronaut, taking to the air in one of his gliders. He made more than 2, 000 flights before being killed in a crash. Early 20th century book illustration

French cartoon on the inability of early balloonists to control the direction of their flights. Here the balloon is being pulled by donkeys

Set of French collecting cards on ballooning to mark the centenary of the Montgolfier Brothers first flight in 1783, with scenes of early French balloon flights

Bomb bay fuel tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers awaiting assembly at the North American Aviation Inc. assembly Plant, Inglewood, California, USA, October 1942. World War II Aviation

Cormorants

Flamingos. Phoenicopterus Ruber. Camargue. France

Africa. Zambia. Luangwa Valley. Storks

Sturnus

Jean Batten in 1937

Helicopter - flight for Mount Cook, tourists viewing from Twizel. South Island - New Zealand
MAB-562 Helicopter - flight for Mount Cook, tourists viewing from Twizel South Island - New Zealand Mark Boulton contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Western Tiger Swallowtail - in flight - Pacific Northwest _E7A0059
TOM-1981 Western Tiger Swallowtail - in flight Pacific Northwest - Washington - North America Papilio rutulus Butterfly Tom & Pat Leeson contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Cover design, Patco Airlines timetable
Cover design, Patco Airlines brochure and timetable, for flights to and from Manila, Baguio and Paracale. Showing a red and blue monoplane on a yellow and green background. 1936

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe
Poster, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, showing summer flights serving cities in Europe from 1 April to 5 October 1935. 1935

Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1910

Large crowd of spectators gathered at the edge of a field at Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio, where a series of flights were conducted from May through July

Aircraft refuelling at Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time Gander was one of the worlds largest airports due to its position as a refuelling station for transatlantic flights. Date: 1929

Louis Bleriot with Lord Northcliffe at the Savoy
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Aviation competition at Rheims, 1909, Farman, Latham & Paulh
Page from the Bystander reporting on the record flights made at Rheims Aviation Meeting in 1909. showing the winner, Henri Farman who flew 116 miles in 3 hours, 4 minutes

Farman Biplane
Henry Farman, an Englishman working in France, made many spectacular flights in his very successful biplane : here he is depicted flying from Chalons to Reims Date: 1909

Cargo transport and baggage loading
Israel, Ben-Gurion international Airport Cargo transport and baggage loading area Luggage conveyor belt

Ariane 5 rocket. 8 meter high model of the Ariane 5 rocket, an expendable (single use) launch system. It was designed to place space probes

Great egret (Ardea alba) in flight, Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, California, United States of America, North America

Airport scene with Caravelle jet
Scene at an airport with a Caravelle jet on the runway, with nine small aeroplanes flying in formation overhead. The jet bears the name of the Italian airline, Societa Aerea Mediterranea

Poster advertising Australian National Airways
Poster advertising ANA, Australian National Airways, offering flights to Adelaide in South Australia

Poster advertising Cidna flights to the Orient
Poster advertising Cidna flights on the Orient Flying Arrow from Paris to Istanbul

Poster advertising Swedish Airlines, with flights from Sweden to London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw and Helsingfors

Handley Page Airline
A poster advertising the daily Handley page flights to and from Paris

Jersey Airways Poster
A poster advertising Jersey Airways Ltd. flights from Jersey to Paris; regular services taking two and a half hours

An airmans altitude helmet, for high altitude flights
The 25th year of heavier-than-air machines, an airmans altitude helmet. A dinner for the anniversary was staged at the Science Museum, the historic biplane, loaned by Orville Wright

Swissair Aeroplane at Zurich Airport, 1936
Photograph of a Swissair aeroplane, of a type used between London and Zurich in 1936, seen at Zurich Airport. Winter flights between Croydon Airport

Greece Lesbos
The harbour of Mytilene, seen from inland : the island is today a popular tourist destination with cheap flights to the airport from all over

France / Alps / Flights 1931
Passy, an airfield in the French Alps, is the point of departure for sightseeing flights over Mont Blanc

Samuel Cody / How to Fly
Samuel Franklin Cody, Texan aviator, making his first flights in England

Caravelle Jet
Passengers boarding a Caravelle Jet, run by Air France for short-haul flights, Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England

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