Balloonists Collection

Monument - cross-channel balloon flight - L Hoste and Mangot
circa 1910s

Founders of the Royal Aero Club
The founders of the Royal Aero Club; from left to right are - Mrs Nicholls, the C. S. Rolls and Mr Hedges Butler. Mrs Nicholl was the first woman to be a member of the club

The Old Order Changeth
" Flight-Sergeant, in future when we go up, just give the order Let Go, instead of Let go the guys, " Date: 1918

Hot Air Balloon, England. Showing Edwardian Balloonists in the Basket with a Dog Date: 1900s

From the Balloon Observers Training Manual, WW1 cartoon
" All apparently natural features should be considered in relation to the general nature of the landscape, as the appearance of a hedge or even a solitary tree may be the cause of the discovery

Officers of the Kite Balloon Section by Lieutenant G. Machin
The Up-in-a-Balloon Boys, A Collection from Somewhere in France. Officers of the nth Kite Balloon Section drawn by Lieutenant G. Machin of the R.A.F

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

Mr. and Madame Garnerin. Date: 1802

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - Balloonists Monument
Neuilly-sur-Seine in the western suburbs of Paris, France - Porte du Ternes and Monument des Aeronautes (Monument to the Aeronauts and Pigeons of the Siege of Paris). Date: circa 1901

Edwardian balloonists

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