Flights Collection

Poster advertising Aquila Airways, with flights to Madeira

Cobham Air Routes Poster
Poster, Cobham Air Routes, offering flights to Guernsey in 2 hours. With a map of the south coast. 20th century

Imperial Airways Poster, flights to Australia
Imperial Airways Poster, advertising flights to Australia taking ten and a half days. 1935

Jersey Airways Poster
Jersey Airways Ltd poster, showing a passenger biplane flying from the south coast of Britain to Jersey. Listing duration and costs of flights from London and Portsmouth. 20th century

Poster advertising Imperial Airways flights around the world, in collaboration with Cunard White Star cruises to Europe

Poster advertising Imperial Airways to India
Poster for Imperial Airways advertising flights from England to India in 7 days

Guernsey Airways Poster
Guernsey 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, Argentina
F.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 India
Poster advertising Imperial Airways flights to India, with an aerial view of a city and a river

Poster for Farman airlines
Poster advertising Farman airlines flights from Paris to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia

Poster advertising Imperial Airways, with flights between Europe, Africa, India, the Far East, Australia, the USA and Bermuda

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 1931
A 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, Queensland
Poster 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, Lufthansa
Leaflet 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 Pageant
Poster, 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 Card
Amy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), pioneer British aviator who made several record flights - seen here in 1935

Glamourous Aviatrix
A glamourous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights

Avro 695 Lincolnian G-ALPF
The 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

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten
Percival 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

Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161
Leduc 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-LZ127
The 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

WW2 - Hurricane Between Flights
A 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 Turn
A 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 Archive
EARLY 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 Archive
EARLY 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 Archive
EARLY 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 Kangeroo
Scottish 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 jungle
An 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 aviator
Sheila 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

Antonov An-30B 1107
Czech 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 aviator
Jean 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 International
Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic, Cross-Channel and International Services and Routes. Date: 1947

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