Astra Collection

Wartime poster of Churchills famous words: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, referring to the pilots of the Royal Air Force, fighting the Battle of Britain

WW2 poster, Per Ardua Ad Astra, Winston Churchill speech
WW2 poster, Per Ardua Ad Astra. Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few. Winston Churchill speech, 20 August 1940. Date: 1940

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, moored on a mast, 12 June 1913

The Astra-Torres Dirigible Airship made by Hutchinson and shown at the Salon de la Locomotion Aerienne at the Grand Palais, Paris, France in 1911. Date: 1911

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus. One of the Hinaidi I prototypes, J9126

Astra Ville de Paris Dirigible Airship in 1908 Date: 1908

Canadair C-4 Argonaut G-ALHS (msn 164), of the Republic of Biafra government, at Castle Donington in October 1969. First operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation as Astra

Clment-Bayard No. 1 Airship 1908
Adolphe Clement-Bayard's latest French dirigible military airship, piloted by M. Henri Kapferer in response to a French Army decision to experiment with airship operations

La Ville de Paris - Airship 1907
Photograph of Henry Kapferer the pilot of the La Ville de Paris, throwing out ballast while floating above Paris. Date: 1907

IAI 1125 Astra N1125 (msn 62), on 24 September 1992. Date: 1992

Hawker Siddeley Hawk T. 1 XX341 ASTRA 1
Empire Test Pilots School - Hawker Siddeley Hawk T.1 XX341 ASTRA 1 (Advanced Stability Training Aircraft) (msn 312165), circa 1995

Astra Ville de Paris Dirigible Airship Flying in 1908 Date: 1908

RAF Per Ardua Ad Astra badge and brooch
A Royal Air Force badge bearing the Latin motto Per Ardua Ad Astra (Through Adversity to the Stars), turned into a brooch by the addition of a bow and pin. Date: circa 1940s

Astra Margarine Advert
Astra margarine - just like butter !

First Gas Balloon (2)
Sic itur ad astra - The first manned flight in a gas balloon, over Paris Date: 1787

Junkers F1- Ad Astra

Angel of Victory statue given to F.C.H. (Frederick Crosby Halahan) from F.R.E.D. (Francis Robert Edward Davis) - inscribed F.C.H. FROM F.R.E.D. - 1922 1929 - PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

Womens Royal Air Force -- The Dawn of Aviation
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a woman looking up at three biplanes in the sky, with a sunrise behind -- The Dawn of Aviation -- with the motto below

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, after a forced landing due to loss of pressure, June 1913

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, 7 October 1913. Date: 1913

The gondola of Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, 12 June 1913

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, at Farnborough on 4 October 1913

The rear Maxim gun position on the gondola of Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres

Christopher Hatton Turnor, 1840-1914, author of Astra Castra: experiments and adventures in the atmosphere published in 1865

Sic itur ad astra. Rodolfo Afflitto da Montefiascone, un ciccio ad incontrar dentro il pallone. Italian cartoon shows a man sitting on an upside-down balloon labeled Prefettura di Napoli

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