Dirigible Collection (page 3)

Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg passenger lounge

Building the frame of the Zeppelin Hindenburg - first flight 1936 - destroyed by fire in 1937. Built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Date: circa 1935

The evolution of the Zeppelin Airship from LZ1 in 1900 through to LZ126 in 1923 Date: circa 1923

Kislovodsk - Russia - a humourous card
A humourous card depicting an unlucky airship passenger dangling rather precariously over the mountains near Kislovodsk, Russia, suspended only by his jacket and the strength of the anchor rope

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

British Army Dirigible No 1, Nulli Secundus, over St. Paul s
British Army Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus (Latin: " Second to none" ) was a Semi-rigid airship. First flown on 10th September 1907

WW1 - German Zeppelin picked by Searchlights over Woodford
WW1 - German Zeppelin L.15 picked out by Searchlights over Woodford, North East London on 13th October 1915. The first raid to target the capital. Date: 1915

Airship Ville de Paris in flight at Verdun 1909

Come take a fly with me - Futuristic take on Airship Travel as a couple step aboard a shi perched on a high rise building. Date: 1911

Aerostat. Engraving in The Illustration, 1887

Front cover of La Navigation Aerienne by J. Lecornu, published by Vuibert & Nony Editeurs, Paris. Date: 1903

A large airship in flight. Date: 1920s

WW1 - French airship returning from action
WW1 - An aerial view of an open landscape, and a French dirigible returning to its shed on the morning after a successful raid over upper Alsace. Date: 1915

Zeppelin Wreckers, RFC pilots Robinson, Tempest, Sowrey

Zeppelin-Staaken VGO III -although remaining a one-off, the VGO III six engined giant bomber served usefully after August 1916

Zeppelin Staaken (side view, on the ground)

Flight of a dirigible hydrogen balloon by the Robert Brothers.. First 45-minute flight of the elongated dirigible hydrogen balloon of the Robert brothers, Anne-Jean and Nicolas Louis, July 15, 1784

WW1 Hot Air Balloon Dirigible
World War 1 Hot Air Balloon Dirigible, England. Date: 1910s

Naval air-scout in a dirigible, First World War
A type of small allied naval dirigible used as an air scout for tracking enemy submarines which can be seen under water in clear, calm weather

Early British dirigible, front view
Early British dirigible, seen from the front, on the ground with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible on the ground
Early British dirigible, seen here on the ground, with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible on the ground with crew
Early British dirigible, seen here on the ground, with crew. Date: early 20th century

Early British dirigible in flight. Date: early 20th century

Gates to Alexandra Palace Park and Airship pilot Dr Barton
An absolutely fascinating postcard showing the gates to Alexandra Palace Park and Airship pilot Dr Francis Alexander Barton (1861-1939), who made a successful flight on 24th July, 1905

Hagia Sophia - Thessaloniki, Greece with Airship. Date: 1917

Graf von Zeppelin - portrait
Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (1838-1917), also known as Count Zeppelin, German general, aviator and airship manufacturer, founder of the Zeppelin Airship company. Date: circa 1910

Dupoy de Lomes dirigible

Dupuy de Lome, marine engineer who built a dirigible for the French government in 1872, head-and-shoulders portrait. Date between 1880 and 1900

Did they think it was a dirigible?. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers, looking worried, in a hot air balloon labeled Labor Vote caught in an electrical storm with lightning

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

Goodyear Blimp Landing Field - Chicago, USA Date: 1933

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hydrogen for Balloons
Henri Giffard developed a process for the preparation of hydrogen gas for air balloons and dirigibles. His first dirigible flight took place in 1852 from Paris to Trappes

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

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

Ricaldoni Airship
The Italian military dirigible number one, the Ricaldoni

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

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

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