World Record Collection (#8)

Charity Aircraft Pull. A British Airways Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet is pulled along the tarmac tug-of-war style at London Heathrow Airport, 11th May 1988

Signor Steppani breaks world long distance record for flying boats. October 1934

Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart MacLaren and his daughter standing in the Vickers Vulture amphibius bi-plane ( G-EBH0 ) at Carshot Spit, an RAF Seaplane Base near Southampton, Hampshire

Sir Malcolm Campbell at high speed in `Blue Bird`, 1935. Campbell set a new land speed record of over 276 miles per hour on 12 March at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

The St Louis Robin refuelling, c1929 (c1937). An endurance flight of over 420 hours was made in 1929 by the St Louis Robin, shown here being refuelled during flight

Ready to test instruments for use in the attempt on the words height record in 1935 (c1937). American balloonists Orvil Arson Anderson (1895-1965) and Albert William Stevens (1886-1949)

Lieutenant BH Barrington-Kennett, the first Adjutant of the RFC, 1912 (1933). Artist: Flight Photo
A world record breaker: Lieutenant BH Barrington-Kennett, the first Adjutant of the RFC, 1912 (1933). Lieutenant Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett made the first passenger flight in Portholme

The First British pilot to break a world record: Captain Bertram Dickson, 1910 (1933). Artist: Flight Photo
The First British pilot to break a world record: Captain Bertram Dickson, 1910 (1933). Bertram Dickson (1873-1913), a pioneering Scottish airman

Advertisement for Yacco motor oil, c1937. Poster featuring a world record-breaking Matford car driven by an all-woman team at the Montlhery motor racing cicuit near Paris in May 1937

Shorts seaplane, Dundee to South Africa, 6 October 1938. World record, 5997.5 miles. Short-Mayo Composite aircraft: the Short S20 aeroplane G-ADHJ Mercury and the Short S21 flying boat Maia

Sir Malcom Campbell (1885-1948) in Bluebird, Daytona Beach, Florida, 7th March 1935 1936)
Sir Malcom Campbell (1885-1948) in BlueBird, Daytona Beach, Florida, 7th March 1935 1936). Campbell set a world land speed record of 272.46 mph at Daytona, Florida in 1933

Man in red shorts, white vest and trainers leaping forwards with legs stretched in front of him and arms behind his back, side view

The Italian round - the - world flight. Signor Hemmer ( left ) and Mr R Larsen, who are accompanying Signor Antonio Locatelli the Italian aviator

V-12 helicopter C017 / 7576
V-12 helicopter. The Russian built Mil V-12 is the worlds largest helicopter. The fuselage was over 28 metres in length and 4.4 metres in width and height

USSR-1 high-altitude balloon, 1933
USSR-1 high-altitude balloon, after take-off. This Soviet balloon set a world record altitude in October 1933, reaching the stratosphere and a height of 18, 514 metres

Mikhail Gromov, Soviet transpolar pilot
Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov (1899-1985), Soviet pilot, wearing aviation clothing for the July 1937 transpolar flight across the North Pole. Gromov was one of three pilots on this pioneering flight

Ilyushin and Kokkinaki, aviation pioneers
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (left, 1894-1977), Soviet aviation engineer, and Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (right, 1904-1985), Soviet test pilot

Moon exhibition model, Germany
Moon exhibition model. This model of the Moon, the worlds largest Moon globe, is a display inside the defunct gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany

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