Flights Collection (page 3)

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

Louise Colet Photo
LOUISE COLET French writer of indifferent verse who nevertheless sustained flights of passion with de Musset, Hugo, Karr and Flaubert : photo 1874. Date: 1810 - 1871

Umberto Nobile 1926
UMBERTO NOBILE Italian aviator with many notable feats including Arctic flights. We have several pictures of his activities. Date: 1885 - 1978

Focke Achgelis Fa223 Drache (Dragon) during certificatio?
Focke Achgelis Fa223 Drache (Dragon) during certification flights in 1940

The first Convair XB-36, 42-13570, before test flights h?
The first Convair XB-36, 42-13570, before test flights had started

Aircraft models on display at the Dorchester Hotel, Lond?
Aircraft models on display at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on 17 December 1953 at a Dinner honouring the 50th anniversary of the first powered controlled flights by the Wright brothers

First Flight between Liege and Paris on Sabena Airlines
First Flight between Liege, Belgium and Paris, France on Sabena Airlines. Date: 1947

Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, France
Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, Aisne department in Picardy, France. A beggar sits at the foot of the long stair, holding out his hat in hope of a charitable donation

Airspeed AS5 Courier, G-ACVF, during rebuilding at Rochford, was the only Courier to survive WW2 and operated on pleasure flights and taxi work for East Anglian Flying Services

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten on two record-breaking flights

Blackburn L1A Bluebird II G-EBSW
Blackburn L1A Bluebird II, G-EBSW, which made Round Britain and German flights in 1928. Date: 1928

de Havilland DH50J G-EBFO as flown by Alan Cobham
de Havilland DH50J, G-EBFO, as flown by Alan Cobham on his World Survey Flights

Junkers Ju52 / 3m D-AQUI is still used for pleasure flights
Junkers Ju52/3m, D-AQUI, is still used for pleasure flights by Lufthansa

The first Convair XB-36 42-13570 before test flights
The first Convair XB-36, 42-13570, before test flights had started. 24 June 1946. Date: 1946

Glider flights 1853 From Cayleys original notebook
Glider flights. 1853. From Cayleys original notebook

Jean Batten in 1937

Cover design, Patco Airlines timetable
Cover design, Patco Airlines brochure and timetable, for flights to and from Manila, Baguio and Paracale. Showing a red and blue monoplane on a yellow and green background. 1936

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe
Poster, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, showing summer flights serving cities in Europe from 1 April to 5 October 1935. 1935

Series of flights from May through July, just after the opening of the Wright Flying School, probably Orville acting as instructor; Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio. Date 1910

Large crowd of spectators gathered at the edge of a field at Simms Station, Dayton, Ohio, where a series of flights were conducted from May through July

Aircraft refuelling at Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time Gander was one of the worlds largest airports due to its position as a refuelling station for transatlantic flights. Date: 1929

Louis Bleriot with Lord Northcliffe at the Savoy
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Aviation competition at Rheims, 1909, Farman, Latham & Paulh
Page from the Bystander reporting on the record flights made at Rheims Aviation Meeting in 1909. showing the winner, Henri Farman who flew 116 miles in 3 hours, 4 minutes

Farman Biplane
Henry Farman, an Englishman working in France, made many spectacular flights in his very successful biplane : here he is depicted flying from Chalons to Reims Date: 1909

Airport scene with Caravelle jet
Scene at an airport with a Caravelle jet on the runway, with nine small aeroplanes flying in formation overhead. The jet bears the name of the Italian airline, Societa Aerea Mediterranea

Poster advertising Australian National Airways
Poster advertising ANA, Australian National Airways, offering flights to Adelaide in South Australia

Poster advertising Sabena flights from Belgium to the Congo and South Africa. A native in traditional headdress looks up at a plane in the sky

Poster advertising Cidna flights to the Orient
Poster advertising Cidna flights on the Orient Flying Arrow from Paris to Istanbul

Poster advertising Swedish Airlines, with flights from Sweden to London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw and Helsingfors

Handley Page Airline
A poster advertising the daily Handley page flights to and from Paris

Jersey Airways Poster
A poster advertising Jersey Airways Ltd. flights from Jersey to Paris; regular services taking two and a half hours

An airmans altitude helmet, for high altitude flights
The 25th year of heavier-than-air machines, an airmans altitude helmet. A dinner for the anniversary was staged at the Science Museum, the historic biplane, loaned by Orville Wright

Swissair Aeroplane at Zurich Airport, 1936
Photograph of a Swissair aeroplane, of a type used between London and Zurich in 1936, seen at Zurich Airport. Winter flights between Croydon Airport

Greece Lesbos
The harbour of Mytilene, seen from inland : the island is today a popular tourist destination with cheap flights to the airport from all over

France / Alps / Flights 1931
Passy, an airfield in the French Alps, is the point of departure for sightseeing flights over Mont Blanc

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