Airships Collection (#6)

Diagram of the German Super-Zeppelin 1916
New improved at the time Super-Zeppelin, giving increased speed, additional strength and greater handiness in movement. Able to release 60 bombs with sliding hatch beneath. 1916

Santos Dumont in 1901
Brazilian aviator Santos-Dumont, at Saint-Cloud, Paris, prepares to make his historic flight round the Tour Eiffel in his Airship number 6. Date: 13 July 1901

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873 - 1932), Brazilian aviation pioneer, one of the very few people to have contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air

Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg passenger lounge

Zeppelin machine gunners by Matania, WW1
Zeppelin machine gunners attempting to beat off a British aeroplane attack. The gunners are positioned on a 9 foot platform above the bow end of the airship

Public warning poster identifying enemy & friendly aircraft
An official British war poster designed to teach the public to distinguish between enemy and friendly aircraft, with German airships and aeroplanes on the left and British on the right. Date: 1915

Solemnity of the World - On the way to a Flower Festival
Solemnity of the World - On the way to the Flower Festival. Date: 1837

The evolution of the Zeppelin Airship from LZ1 in 1900 through to LZ126 in 1923 Date: circa 1923

Britains Royal Naval Air Service, aircraft and airmen -- Lieutenant Longmore RN, Flight Commander Samson RN, Lieutenants Grey RN, with a seaplane on the water behind them

La Navigation Aerienne by J. Lecornu
Beautiful cover to La Navigation Aerienne featuring an airship flying through the clouds over a cityscape. 1914

Launch of the LZ-126 Zeppelin - USS Los Angeles
The USS Los Angeles - a rigid airship, designated ZR-3 (Construction number LZ-126), which was built in 19231924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany as war reparation

Poster, Voyage au Bresil. circa 1930s

AIRSHIP: LA FRANCE / 1884
La France : built by Renard & Krebs; the first electric powered airship. Date: 12th September 1884

Charvins Aeroscaphe
Charvins ambitious design for the Societe Francaises des Aeroscaphes has propellors at each end as well as rotors on the side for steering. Date: 1864

Zeppelin 126 Building
Zeppelin LZ-126 under construction. Next year she will be given to the United States as war reparations, and named Los Angeles Date: 1923

Zeppelin Lz-4 Trials
ZEPPELIN LZ-4 She makes her trial flight over the Bodensee (Lake Constance) Date: 1908

Cartoon, Taking advantage of the dark, WW1
Cartoon, Taking advantage of the dark -- a Zeppelin airship creeps over Paris at night with deadly intent. Date: 1916

Zeppelin Downed Over Sea WWI
A Zeppelin raid is intercepted and terminated over the North Sea. Date: 5 August 1918

Graf Zeppelin on Ground
LZ 127 GRAF ZEPPELIN Manoeuvring the greatest of the Zeppelins out of its hangar is a delicate operation Date: 1931

Airship / Zeppelin Takeoff
GRAF ZEPPELIN The Airship takes to the sky. Date: 1938

R34 Airship, Transatlantic crossing 1919
Flying over the fleet in the firth of forth, the R 34 the first British transatlantic dirigible. Illustration showing the armed demonstration flight over Heligoland

Zeppelinanities: The airy humour of the Hun by H. M. Bateman
" Zeppelinanities. The airy humour of the Hun: a German air-raiders air-raising narrative illustrated by our caricaturist." This cartoon depicts the German zeppelin raid on London on 8

A lesson arranged by the Enemy. H. M. Bateman
" A Lesson arranged by the enemy. The Higher Education." In this cartoon Bateman imagines a schoolmaster getting his students out of bed at night to look at a zeppelin fly past. Date: 1916

WW1 - Zeppelins raid over Paris, France, 1915
WW1 - A failed night raid attack over Paris, where enemy airships are under attack from shells and searchlights from below

Zeppelin Wreckers, RFC pilots Robinson, Tempest, Sowrey

Zeppelin-Staaken VGO III -although remaining a one-off, the VGO III six engined giant bomber served usefully after August 1916

Zeppelin Staaken (side view, on the ground)

Naval air-scout in a dirigible, First World War
A type of small allied naval dirigible used as an air scout for tracking enemy submarines which can be seen under water in clear, calm weather

Zeppelin observation car by G. H. Davis, WW1
Cut-away illustration of an observation car which had been attached to a Zeppelin but cast off and picked up over East Anglia allowing the British, and artist, G. H

Sphere cover - destruction of zeppelin, Potters Bar, Matania
Front cover of The Sphere with an illustration of the German Zeppelin destroyed over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire on 1 October 1916

Clearing away wreckage at Cuffley by Matania, WW1
A scene at Cuffley, Hertfordshire showing the wreckage of the L-21 German zeppelin airship brought down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2 September 1916

Sphere cover - Clearing away wreckage at Cuffley, WW1
A scene at Cuffley, Hertfordshire after the German L-21 airship had fallen to earth in a ball of flames, having been shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson VC on the night of 2 September 1916

Original photograph of the airships SS8 SS11 and SS12
Original photograph of the airships SS8:11:12 proceeding on channel patrol from Capel, near Folkestone, October 1915. The Captains of the airships are as follows : Sub-Lieutenant Ivor Little

German Zeppelin over Antwerp 1914
A German Zeppelin airship over Antwerp, illuminated at night. The diagram shows how it dropped and fired its bombs on the Belgian city. Date: 1914

How a Zeppelin climbs when attacked by G. H. Davis
How a Zeppelin climbs when attacked from below by anti-aircraft guns. Date: 1915

Zeppelin raids by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelin raids: some notes on the airships and their weapons. How a Zeppelin goes aloft when attacked -- the working of the elevators and the release of the water ballast. Date: 1915

Germanys expenditure on aircraft by G. H. Davis
Germanys new expenditure on her aircraft: five years planned expenditure on airships, sheds and aeroplanes. Illustrating the latest military experiment with Zeppelins -- guns on the roof

Searchlights near Nancy, France, WW1
Searchlights on the lookout for German Zeppelin airships near Nancy, France, at the start of the First World War. August 1914

Early British dirigible, front view
Early British dirigible, seen from the front, on the ground with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible on the ground
Early British dirigible, seen here on the ground, with crew. Date: early 20th century

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