Flights Collection (page 2)

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

Lady Hay Drummond-Hay
Grace 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

Poster, Fly BEA to Malta. Date: 1957

Enormous public interest in the Graf Zeppelin at the time of her cruise over London, the crowd round the airship on her arrival at Hanworth. Date: 1931

Graf Zeppelin leaving Friedrichshafen and appearing over Hanworth Aerodrome on the same day, cruised over Central London, watched by thousands from the ground. Date: 1931

Northrop YRB-49A 42-102376 (msn 1496), in storage with Northrop, at Ontario Airport. built as a YB-35, converted to YB-35B, then YRB-49A

Aichi AB-3 reconnaissance seaplane, ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy, for use on the Chinese Navys new warship ordered from the Harima shipyard in Japan

Bellanca CH NC342E (msn 126) of Interstate Flights Inc. at New York. Registered to Coeur dAlene Air Transport Inc. at the time of registration cancellation on 15 December 1936 Date: 1929

Tipsy Belfair OO-TIC. OO-TIC made two long-distance record flights; one in 1950 and another in 1955, as detailed, in French, on the side of the fuselage. Date: late 1950s

Vickers VC. 1 Viking 1B G-AJFT
Vickers VC.1 Viking 1B G-AJFT (msn 238) of Airwork London, at Blackbushe Airport. (Vickers Type 627 Viking 1B) Airwork carried out trooping flights, with Vickers Vikings

Fiedler 1910 Eindecker powered by a 50 PS Daimler engine. (PS= Pferd starke - a German equivalent of horsepower) Paul Fiedler was one of Austrias early aviation pioneers

United States Navy - Vought TF-8A Crusader 143710
United States Navy - Vought NTF-8A Crusader 143710, of the Test Pilot School, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, with a ground run intake guard fitted

Airport - Port Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, USA Date: 1946

FRANCE / ALPS / FLIGHTS 1931
French Alps: sight-seeing flights over Mont Blanc, from Passy airfield Date: 1931

GLAMOROUS AVIATRIX
A glamorous blond Aviatrix, sporting red goggles and a cream flying helmet and jumpsuit enjoys a well earned smoke in between flights Date: 1933

Man standing in front of plane
A smartly dressed man standing in front of a plane, probably a biplane operated by the French airline, Air Union. Flights operated between Croydon airport in the UK and Le Bourget airport in Paris

John A. Macready
American Flight-Lieutenant J.A. Macready photographed before making an attempt at the altitude record. His outfit is made from wool, leather, fur and down to keep him warm

Aft cabin, Heracles liner, Imperial Airways
View inside the aft cabin of a Heracles passenger plane (a Handley Page Hengist), belonging to Imperial Airways, mainly used for flights between London and Paris. Date: circa 1932

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Three women in front of biplane at an airport
Three smartly dressed women standing in front of a biplane operated by the French airline, Air Union. Flights operated between Croydon airport in the UK and Le Bourget airport in Paris

Falling down the stairs - the end result is the same
Voice from above - " Whist, Mick! Are yer for faalen down shtairs?" Mick - " Uts arl roight, oi was comin down, anyhow!" Date: 1896

Jaguar S06 XW560 right and Jaguar S07 XW563 at Warton
Jaguar S06, XW560, right, and Jaguar S07, XW563, at Warton following test flights. circa 1970. Date: 1970

Hotel Hallway 1920S
A hotel interior showing a long corridor off which are flights of stairs. It has the cool, minimalist elegance of the art deco era

Jean Batten (1909 - 1982), Pioneering aviator from New Zealand. 1937

Austrians V Russians
On the frontiers of Galicia, Austrians fire on Russian reconnaissance flights - an early example of anti-aircraft defences in action ! Date: January 1913

SaB 2000 of Darwin Airline to launch scheduled flights from Cambridge on 2 Sept 2013 - PR 200513

Albert Fileux, engineer, passenger of John Moisant
Albert Fileux, mechanical engineer, passenger of John Moisant on many of his pioneering flights, including a cross-Channel trip from France to Britain on 17 August 1910. Date: circa 1910

Roe on the Avro triplane in 1910
One of the first passenger flights in England. A.V Roe was a great pioneer of British aviation. Date: 1910

Harbour on the high seas by G. H. Davis
The seadrome is a mid-ocean landing field for refuelling. U shaped, one arm for refuelling the seaplane, other side is a large flight deck. Date: 1937

Avro Lancaster PA474 BBMF Scampton
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flights Lancaster is one of only two flying examples in the world. Performs at airshows every year in Britain. Date: 1968

Cub scouts with helicopter, Victoria, Australia
Cub scouts of the 1st Waverley Group with a helicopter in Victoria, Australia. They were raising money for charity, charging passengers for short flights

Amy Johnson solo flight London to Australia
In May 1930 Amy Johnsons six-day flight from Croydon, London to Karachi, set a new record for a solo flight to India. Amy standing infront of the Gipsy moth aeroplane " Jason"

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902 1974), American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Photographed here on his first Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on the 2021 May

Flights into the Future - technicians inspecting space ship
Technicians making a final inspection of a space ship, before it makes its flight to the moon - a futuristic prediction of fiction which will one day be fact

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape. A imaginary

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Zeppelin airship flights by night, by G. H. Davis
The possibilities of Zeppelin airship flights by night. Showing a 360 mile route from Heligoland to Selby, and an inset map with various routes marked

Revolutionary design for air liner by G. H. Davis
A British flying wing project: a revolutionary design for a speedy night-flying air liner. Details of the proposed Armstrong-Whitworth flying wing

Jean Batten in 1934
Jean Batten (1909 - 1982). Pioneering aviator from New Zealand. In May 1934 Batten successfully flew solo from England to Australia in the Gipsy Moth

Womens Royal Air Force -- Signwriting
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a woman sitting in an aircraft hangar, Signwriting in the Flights on the fuselage of a biplane. Date: 1919-1920

Scylla L17 biplane on an airfield
The Scylla L17 British four-engine biplane, designed and built by Short Brothers. It was used by Imperial Airways for scheduled flights between London and various European cities

Advertising material displayed on a car, with a man sitting alongside. One poster reads: Stop this car for a free drive, and the other reads: See the seaside from the air

Mermoz Photo
JEAN MERMOZ French aviator who vanished into the Atlantic on what proved to be the last of his record-breaking flights. Date: 1901 - 1936

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