Air Ship Collection (page 3)

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

Wreckage of R101 airship
The mangled wreckage of the British R101 airship which crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

Diagram of R101 crash
A diagram showing how the British R101 airship dived twice and crashed on a hillside of Allonne, near Beauvais, France on 5th October 1930 on its maiden voyage

Flag of the R101 airship
The torn flag of the British R101 airship salvaged from the wreck after the airship crashed on 5th October 1930 near Beauvais, France, on its maiden voyage

The Zeppelin L213 on route from Hamburg to America, flying over Blankenese, Hamburg

Vickers Naval Airship, No. 1 in Cavendish dock Barrow

Our sailor King, King George V, Royal Navy airmen flying over the British Fleet in Weymouth Bay. The Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert

James Gordon Bennett at an international balloon race, Forest park, St Louis. He came in fourth place

Dr Ing. Graf Zeppelin, creator of the Zeppelin airship

Graf Zeppelin in a hanger in Germany

Naval Airship Shed, Cavendish Dock, Barrow

Landing of a Zeppelin in Luneville, France

The Zeppelin L49 on the ground

A Graf Zeppelin and a flying boat, Konstanz, D- 277

Germany - Early Zeppelin docking at a floating hangar
Germany - Early Zeppelin airship docking at a floating hangar

Mudros Harbour WWI
A view of Mudros Harbour on Lemnos Island off the Turkish coast, with a British airship passing ovehead during World War I

Warneford attacks Zeppelin at Ghent
On 7 June 1915 at Ghent, Belgium, Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (1891- 1915), a Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer, flying a Morane-Saulnier Type L

Searchlights over St Pauls Cathedral
Searchlights pick out the menacing shape of a German Zeppelin flying a bombing raid over the capital during World War One

Les Robinsons Lunaires, title page
(The lunar family Robinson) A balloon is carried to the Moon, but make a successful return to Earth

Zeppelin illuminated by searchlights
The unmistakable and ominous outline of a raiding German Zeppelin airship, illuminated by five searchlights. The Zeppelin raids (which commenced on 31st May 1915)

La France Airship
The first flight of the airship La France built by Charles Renard and Arthur C. Krebs on 9th August 1884. Seen here returning to its hangar after its 5 mile and 23 minute flight in France

Aeroplane and airship
An aeroplane and a huge airship share air space above the clouds

Willows Airship above St Pauls Cathedral, London

Flag commemorating the Hindenburg
Triangular flag commemorating the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1936. The airship crashed at Lakehurst the following year

Anti-airship battery
A sketch of war. One of the first anti-aircraft guns - a French artllery team with a gun on a rotating mounting, specifically used to target airships

Zeppelin wreckage
Infantry working on Zeppelin wreckage in England during World War I

Airship over the Champs Elysees, Paris
An Airship flying over the Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris. The street is filled with early motor taxis

The Gamma I Airship at Aldershot - an early British Army airship, tested prior to World War One

The Lebaudy Morning Star Airship in 1910 - paid for by readers of the Morning Star.On 26th October 1910 this was the second airship to cross the English Channel South to North

War Loan Campaign in Trafalgar Square, London, 1918
Photograph showing the War Loan Campaign exhibition in Trafalgar Square, London, in March 1918. Inset, top right, is a picture of the British airship from which the Countess of Drogheda dropped

A propeller attached to the wreckage of a German zeppelin
The wreckage of a German zeppelin shot down by British fighter planes and anti-aircraft fire following a bombing raid on London, 23rd September 1916

EAGLE AIRSHIP
Designed by comte de Lennox, the Eagle is intended to fly from London to Paris in 6 hours : but it is too heavy, fails to get airborne, and will be destroyed in Paris

Venus Airship
The innovative people of Venus develop this birdlike man- powered airship which moves by flapping its wings. Date: 1942

Airship of Pluto
The people of Pluto solve the problem, how to fly when theres no atmosphere, by developing this flying wing which uses electro-magnetic force for propulsion

Radium Airship
Other worlds will surely develop their own technologies for space travel : this radium-powered airship of Saturn uses the planets natural resources

Airship of Io
On Io, third of Jupiters moons, atomic power has been harnessed for the purposes of aviation : this airship is really a rocket ship with wings

Airship of Europa
On Europa, Jupiters fourth largest moon, the science of plastics is advanced to its ultimate in this light and transparent airship

The Zeppelin LZ 129, under construction, 1934
Photograph of the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 under construction at Friedrichshafen, March 1934. Known as the Hindenberg when completed

PATRIE ON TEST
The military airship Patrie on test at Chalons military camp

Nobile in Radio Contact
Umberto Nobile flew the airship Norge over the North Pole in 1926. His second attempt in 1928 in Italia ended in a crash landing. Making radio contact - Italy

Bombers of Zeppelin
In order to improve the safety and accuracy of airship bombing, bomb-aimers survey the landscape below the clouds by using a suspended car

R101 CRASH - 1
THE R.101 : badly designed, inadequately tested and overloaded, the airship crashes near Beauvais, France, on its way to India

Zeppelin Lz 4 / Postcard
Zeppelin LZ-4

Launch from Airship
Aeroplanes are carried beneath an airship, to be released if the airship should be attacked by hostile aircraft

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