Air Ship Collection (page 4)

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

Aeroplane Airship Duel
A duel between an aeroplane and an airship - foreseeing the aerial warfare of World War One

Dupuy de Lome airship
Nacelle (basket or carriage) of Dupuy de Lomes dirigible

Nobile / Airship / Spitzberg
Umberto Nobile flew the airship Norge over the North Pole in 1926. His second attempt in 1928 in Italia ended in a crash landing. Flying over Spitzbergen

Plane Attacks Balloon
A British biplane attacks a balloon protecting an enemy airship shed near Ghent

Amundsen / Airship Norge
Norwegian polar explorer and aviator, who died attempting to rescue Umberto Nobile

Parseval III Airship
PARSEVAL III military airship

Parseval Airship
PARSEVAL military airship

Clouth German Airship
CLOUTH military airship

Gross German Airship
GROSS military airship

Perseval Airship 1915
Parseval military airship : its inventor, Major von Parseval, claims it can be inflated/deflated more rapidly than any competing airship

Zeppelin in Flight
Graf Zeppelins first lenkbares Luftschiff (dirigible airship) in full flight over the German countryside

Zeppelin over Paris 1914
A German airship hovers menacingly over Paris

Hunting with Airships
We can be sure that Man, by instinct a hunter, will turn the airship to good account and pursue the fowls of the air as eagerly as he chases the creatures of the land

Spanish Airship
The Torres Quevedo held on the ground by squads of men preparatory to take-off

Ricaldoni Airship
The Italian military dirigible number one, the Ricaldoni

Airship over New York
A large passenger-carrying airship pictured over New York

Baldwin Airship 1906
The BALDWIN - United States military dirigible Number 1

Airship Mail Project
AIR MAIL : a scheme to pick up mail by airship from a moving train is tested in Illinois, but does not seem to have proved practicable

Willows Flight
Pioneer aviator Willows flies his airship number 9 from Cardiff to London

Nulli Secundus Airship
A modified version of the Nulli Secundus, intended for military use

BRITISH BABY AIRSHIP
The British Armys Baby intended for observation and reconnaissance

Tissandier Airship 3
The electric-powered dirigible of Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER flies from Auteuil, near Paris, and qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible airship

Tissandier Airship 2
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER take off from Auteuil, near Paris, in their electric- powered dirigible which qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible

Tissandier Airship 1
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIERs first project for a dirigible powered by electricity : a modified version flew two years later

VILLE DE PARIS AIRSHIP
The Ville de Paris. Date: 1908

Clement Bayard
The Clement-Bayard flies from Paris to London

OLIVIERs AVISOL
Arsene Oliviers Avisol - an airship with wings - seeks to combine the lift of the aeroplanes wings with that of the airships body

Renard & Krebs France
The La France military airship, designed by Renard and Krebs

LEBAUDY AIRSHIP
The Lebaudy military airship

ZODIAQUE III AIRSHIP
Frances Zodiaque III

colonel Renard Airship
Frances Colonel Renard, named after a pioneer aviator, is intended for military use

CAPAZZA AIRSHIP
Frances Capazza has an unusually flat shape, with external reinforcement

R101 CRASH - 2
THE R.101 : badly designed, inadequately tested and overloaded, the airship crashes near Beauvais, France, on its way to India

AIRSHIP REPUBLIQUE
After an accident, the airship has to make a forced landing at Pollcards, in the commune of Jussy-le-Chaudrier (Cher)

Ww1 / 1914 / Zeppelin Ship
A German Zeppelin airship is picked out in the night sky by a searchlight from a fort on the French border. A French artillery position opens fire

French Utopia of 1850
A French Utopia, with harmony between colours, creeds, scholars and labourers, young and old, male and female, the arts and the sciences amid the joy of nature & new technology

Juillots LA Patrie
Juillots military airship flies successfully in August, but in November, alas, it will crash

Perseval Airship
Major von Persevals contribution to military aviation will be eclipsed by the Zeppelins

Military Airship
In 1910, it is safe to predict that airships will play a part in a future war. This one is causing immense damage with its bombs, but is being fired upon in its turn

Future Airship Race
WILD IDEAS A race-meeting of the future : in days to come, Le Grand Prix de Paris will be run not with horses but with airships

Rain to Order
A farmer directs the rain- making airship to where he wants his crops watered

Futuristic air transport, with a traffic policeman
A futuristic air transport scene. A traffic policeman, in his own mini-airship, directs international air traffic

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