Air Ship Collection (page 2)

Peter Strasser - German Zeppelin Commander
Peter Strasser (18761918) - Chief Commander of the German Imperial Navy Zeppelins during World War I, the main force operating bombing campaigns from 1915 to 1917

Painting of the R34 Airship
Painting of the R34 British airship, first to cross the Atlantic from the UK to the USA in 1919

L19 Zeppelin
Impression of the German Zeppelin L-19 with its crew perched on top seeking help from the crew of the fishing trawler, " King Stephen" who refused to give it and left

Le Levrier et L Hirondelle Renault
The airship Swallow flies over a group of people playing tennis beside a Renault motor car

Exploring with Airships
The airship will enable explorers to get to remote places easily and comfortably, avoiding lions and bears though it will not enable them to avoid heat and cold

Wed at 800 Metres
WED AT 800 METRES At San Antonio, Texas, Walter Stone and Mary Shelton are married aboard an airship

Graf Zeppelin Airship
The Graf Zeppelin over the ocean

Chick and Airship
Chicks descend from an airship by ladder

Metal-clad airship (non-rigid). Slate Aircraft

M. Deutschs Airship
M.Deutschs Airship. The La Ville de Paris, 201 feet long with a maximum diameter of 35 feet. Made by Mr. Edward Surcouf for M. Deutsch de la Meurthe. Powered by a 70 hp Chenu motor. Date: 1907

AKRON CRASHES 1933
AKRON : always accident- prone, the American airship is caught in a storm and plunges into the sea, never to emerge... Date: 1933

Airship Station Paris
An airship station on the towers of Notre-Dame, Paris, will be convenient for inner- city travellers and tourists Date: 1905

Airship, the Eagle, on display in London
Engineering drawing of an airship, on display to the public at the Grounds of the Aeronautical Society, Victoria Road, opposite Kensington Gardens, London. With descriptive text below. 1835

Airship shaped like a fish, Spain
An airship shaped like a fish, being rowed across the sky from the town of Plazentia to Coria in Spain, piloted by Dom Joseph Patinho

Book cover design, My Airships: the Story of my Life, by Alberto Santos-Dumont, London: Grant Richards, 1904. 1904

Book cover design, King of the Air: or, to Morocco on an Airship, by Herbert Strang, London: H. Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. 1908

Book cover design, Airships and Other Aerial Craft
Book cover design, The Boys Book of Airships and Other Aerial Craft, by Harry Delacombe and EJ Partridge, London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1910. 1910

Cover design, Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung catalogue
Cover design for the official catalogue of the Internationale Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung (International Airship Exhibition), Frankfurt, 1909. 1909

The airship craze. Illustration shows a golf club driving a golf ball that is covered with insects; at the bottom is a ticket booth labeled Conquest of the Air where insects can purchase tickets for

Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonists Albert Tissandier (left) and Gaston Tissandier (right) inside an oval, with vignettes above of balloons Zenith and Jean Bart and an airship below

Albert Tissandier (left), Gaston Tissandier (right), and an unidentified man in the basket of their airship demonstrating an electric navigational system featuring a propeller

Airship powered by an electric motor developed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier departing from Auteuil, Paris, France, October 8, 1883. Date 1883

Two views of an airship shaped like a long tube with a pointed nose, propellers on the side and a rudder, resembling an 1850 design proposed by Pierre Jullien, a French clock maker from Villejuif

Design drawing for a navigational system for an airship employing six balloons and parachutes, a deck, superstructure, and basket below. Date between 1820 and 1880

Wreck of HMA1, the Royal Navys first airship
The wreck of HMA1, The Mayfly. Built by Vickers, this was the first naval airship built in the UK; work began on it in 1909 at Cavendish Dock

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over pier, Walton, Essex
At 4pm on 19 August 1931 crowds of onlookers lined the pier and promenades at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, to watch the famous Graf Zeppelin fly along the Essex coastline

Submarine Battle
Cover of Illustrierte Zeitung 3/5 1915, depicting German Airships in battle with british submarines during WWI. Date: 1915

Summit of the Ballon D alsace, Vosges, France
An early airship (the Adjudant-Reau )passing the Monument of Joan of Arc, built on the summit of the Ballon D alsace - one of the most famous summits in the Vosges mountains

Riga, Latvia - Fantasy card
Riga, Latvia - Complete fantasy card, featuring a cable car, an airship, a tram, a hot air balloon, an early motorcar, a policeman on a bicycle and a jolly black man in a suit smoking a cigar

Clearing up bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
British troops helping to clear up bomb damage caused by the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War

British Airship
A British airship on convoy duty : from the air it is often possible to see U-boats under the surface. Date: circa 1915

British NS9 airship, WW1
The British NS9 (North Sea class) airship hovering above a landing ground. She was used for patrolling the North Sea during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

British R26 airship flying over London, WW1
British R26 (23 class) airship flying over London towards the end of the First World War. St Pauls Cathedral and the River Thames can be seen below, on a rather smoggy looking day

Goodyear Blimp Landing Field - Chicago, USA Date: 1933

British naval airship in flight, WW1
A British naval airship in flight during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Italian military dirigible or airship
An Italian military dirigible or airship, the M1, with two Fiat S76A engines, first used during the Italian-Turkish war (1911-1912). Date: circa 1910-1913

German bomb damage, Salonika, Greece, WW1
Damage caused by bombs dropped from the German military airship LZ85 on Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Three people were killed and three injured

Touring Club Italiano chart, aeroplanes and airships
Touring Club Italiano chart of aeroplanes and airships, Italian and foreign (German, Austrian, French, British), for recognition purposes

Chicago World Fair - General Exhibits Group, housing the Graphic Arts, furniture, office supply, cosmetic, leather, sporting goods and jewellery industries. Date: 1933

Victims of the R101 airship disaster
A holocaust of air experts: victims of the R101 disaster. The British R101 airship crashed near Beauvais in France, on its maiden voyage to Egypt and India, on 5th October 1930

Submarine Scout Airship2
The car of this submarine scout airship is evidently the fuselage of an aeroplane, its motor providing the forward power. Date: circa 1915

Card; Airship
Children throw flowers from an airship circa 1908

Reconnaisance Airship
An airship of the future carries out a reconnaisance flight, using powerful searchlights to reveal the enemys defences. Date: 1907

Airships, Dirigible Balloon Race, Beechy Winner. Two dirigibles aloft, one grounded at a balloon race

Air Vice-Marshal Sir W Sefton Brancker
Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877 - 1930), Director of Civil Aviation, killed in the R101 airship disaster on 5th October 1930

Tail of wrecked R101 airship at Beauvais
The shape of the tail fins and rudder of the R101 airship can be clearly seen amid the wreckage after it crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

Lord Thomson
Brigadier-General Lord Thomson, Christopher Birdwood, 1st Baron Thomson (1875 - 1930), Secretary of State for Air; killed in the R101 airship disaster

R101 survivors arrive at Croydon
Survivors of the R101 airship crash near Beauvais, France, on 5th October 1930 arrive at Croydon Airport ten days later

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