Imperial Airways Poster, flights to AustraliaImperial Airways Poster, advertising flights to Australia taking ten and a half days. 1935
Poster advertising Aquila Airways, with flights to Madeira
Cobham Air Routes PosterPoster, Cobham Air Routes, offering flights to Guernsey in 2 hours. With a map of the south coast. 20th century
Poster advertising Imperial Airways to IndiaPoster for Imperial Airways advertising flights from England to India in 7 days
Guernsey Airways PosterGuernsey Airways Ltd, poster giving a stylised route map of flights from London and Southampton to Channel Islands, and Dinard on the French coast. 20th century
Pleasure Flights Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, Bembridge Farm Aerodrome at any time by arrangement at the farm
Poster for Rosario de la Frontera, ArgentinaF.C.C.A. (Central Argentine Railway) Poster, for Rosario de la Frontera - a city in the centre-south of the province of Salta, Argentina
Poster advertising Imperial Airways, boasting of 28 new Empire Flying Boats which travel at 200 miles per hour. Flights serving Europe, Africa, India, the Far East and Australia
Poster advertising Imperial Airways to IndiaPoster advertising Imperial Airways flights to India, with an aerial view of a city and a river
Poster for Farman airlinesPoster advertising Farman airlines flights from Paris to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia
Beryl Markham (1902 1986), British-born Kenyan author, aviator, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. Photographed here, just after flying from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island
Graf, German zeppelin over London 1931A good will visit, German zeppelin Graf flying over London, a transatlantic passenger carrier operating between 1928 to 1937, with people paying to take a flight over England. Date: August 1931
Poster advertising ANA flights to Brisbane, QueenslandPoster advertising Australian National Airways flights to Brisbane, Queensland
Croydon Aerodrome is Britains largest and most prestigious airport, with regular flights to the European Continent. Note the wind-sock which tells pilots the prevailing wind
Poster advertising Air Union flights on the Thalassa from Marseilles to Ajaccio and Tunis
Leaflet design, LufthansaLeaflet design, Deutsche Lufthansa, offering Aerobus flights between Cologne and Frankfurt, and steamer trips on the Rhine between Cologne and Dusseldorf. circa 1926
Poster, Indias First Aerial PageantPoster, Captain C. D. Barnard presents Indias First Aerial Pageant, with passenger flights in the famous monoplane Spider, parachute descents, daring acrobatics by famous pilots
Etienne Ohemichens experimental helicopter, 1921 Date: 1921
Poster advertising British Eagle flights to the continental sun
Amy Johnson / Cig CardAmy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), pioneer British aviator who made several record flights - seen here in 1935
Glamourous AviatrixA glamourous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights
Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean BattenPercival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Gardner Batten, CBE, OSC (19091982), - a New Zealand aviatrix - on two record-breaking flights in the 1930s. Date: circa 1937
From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Sco?From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter during training at Langley Field, Virginia, for their forthcoming Mercury space flights, 11 January 1961. Date: 1961
WW2 - Hurricane Between FlightsA photograph of some British WW2 Royal Air Force men positioned on the wing of a Hawker Hurricane, refilling and re-ammunitioning it while the pilot stretches his legs. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 - R. A. F. Pilots Waiting Their TurnA photograph showing a group of young British WW2 Royal Air Force trainee pilots waiting their turn as they sit atop a plane, observing the trial flights of their classmates. Date: circa 1940s
Spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody ArchiveEARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb
Tree and spring balance brass dial, Samuel Cody ArchiveEARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The spring balance used by Cody in early engine-thrust tests. Circa 1908, by Salter?s, the brass dial marked to 600lb
Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody ArchiveEARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No
Zeppelin airship, Hamburg-America Line, brochure cover, South American service. Flights from Germany to South America. Powerful cover graphic showing the airship flying westbound over a stylised
Advert for Dunlop Tyres, as used in motoring and aviation. Date: 1932
Jim Mollison and KangerooScottish aviator James Allan Jim Mollison (1905-1959) was greeted by a kangaroo in Croydon, at the end of his record breaking flight from Australia to England
The Drawing Room of a Handley Page Pullman - a new luxury commercial passenger plane which began operating between London and Paris in December 1919 Date: 1919
Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungleAn unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters
Sheila Scott, English record-breaking aviatorSheila Scott (Sheila Christine Hopkins, 1922-1988), English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flights
Arturo Ferrarin and Carlo Del Prete make a non-stop flight Rome - Brazil, covering 7000 km in 44 hours, in a Savoia- Marchetti SM-64 specifically created for long flights. Date: July 1928
Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship
Hanworth Air Park - 1932 - Graf Zeppelin D-LZ127The German airship Graf Zeppelin D-LZ127 at Hanworth Air Park conducting sight-seeing flights over London. On 18 August 1931, the German airship Graf Zeppelin (D-LZ127) visited Hanworth
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver 2 G-ANAR (msn 80) at the 1958 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. The prototype Beaver 2 was built in Canada and first flew at Downsview, piloted by George Neal
Avro 695 Lincolnian G-ALPFThe sole UK registered Avro 695 Lincolnian G-ALPF (ex RAF Lincoln B.2 RE290)parked at Southend prior to being scrapped in 1952. Converted by Airflight Ltd
Antonov An-30B 1107Czech Air Force - Antonov An-30B 1107 (msn 1107), of 344 PzDLt, assigned to Open Skies arms verification flights. Seen at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 22 July 1995. Date: 1995
United States Air Force - Boeing OC-135W 61-2670 (MSN 18346), on approach to RAF Mildenhall circa February 1999. Built as a C-135B-BN Stratolifter and converted to WC-135B weather aircraft
Douglas DC-1 NR223Y of Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) Flown by TWA as a flying laboratory and for occasional scheduled passenger flights
The Majah!!! Mr E Righton in Flirtation in Three Flights by Romer and Bellamy - Edward Righton (1838-1899), English actor Date: late 19th century
Jean Batten, New Zealand aviatorJean Batten (1909 - 1982), New Zealand aviator. She made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936
Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic and InternationalPromotional postcard for BEA - Domestic, Cross-Channel and International Services and Routes. Date: 1947
Lady Hay Drummond-HayGrace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (1895 - 1946), British journalist, who was the first woman to travel around the world by air (in a zeppelin). 1930
Tom Cribb, boxer, and the Coat of Arms
Poster, TAI to New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean. Date: circa 1950s
