Langley Collection

Mercury 7 Astronauts
The Mercury Project astronauts standing beside a 106-B plane. (l to r) Ms Carpenter, L G Cooper, John H Glenn, V I Grissom, Walter M Schirra, Alan B Shepard and D K Slayton

Langley Park Golf Club, Beckenham
Series of caricatures of the members of Langley Park golf club in Beckenham, Kent which opened in 1910, and was originally known as Parklangley Club

The Ovaltine Factory and Farms, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. Date: circa 1940s

LCC-LFB fatal warehouse fire, Langley Street WC2
Three firemen died fighting this blaze in a Covent Garden warehouse in Langley Street. The first crews to arrive, from Clerkenwell fire station, found the warehouse well alight

Survivors of the Empress of Ireland. 1. Mr Edward Bamford, junior wireless operator on the Empress of Ireland. 2. The Rev J. Wallet, of the United Methodist Church, Westcliff-On-Sea. 3

A 1 / 40 scale model of the airship Akron
A 1/40 scale model of the airship Akron in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in January 1935. Date: 1935

Hawker Hurricane IIC PZ865
Hawker Hurricane IIC, PZ865, The Last of the Many!, the final production Hurricane, is rolled out of the Hawker factory at Langley in 1944. Date: 1944

New York World's Fair, Langley Field Diorama
A photograph showing a diorama of Langley Air Field, Virginia, through a round peephole, exhibited at the New York World's Fair, held at Flushing Meadows during 1939-40. Date: circa 1939

Langley Alloys - Aluminium Bronzes - Hidurax Stampings - Langley Alloys Ltd. Date: 1944

Dior fashion show at the Savoy, 1950
Fashion show by Christian Dior held at the Savoy Hotel, London on 25 April 1950 to raise funds for the Museum of Costume, all arranged by Mrs Langley Moore

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

USAF - Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 52-6993 - buzz number FS-993 - of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Wethersfield, possibly en-route for delivery to Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507
Convair NF-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507 (msn 8-27-01) at NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH

From left: Robert Herbert Whitby, Performance and Analy?
From left: Robert Herbert Whitby, Performance and Analysis Manager, Engineering Department, British European Airways; Frederic B. Gustafson, Langley Aeronautical Laboratory; and Capt John A

McDonnell XF-88A 46-526 (2nd prototype) on the salvage dump at Langley AFB, VA, stripped for spares to keep XF-88B 46-525 flying with NACA Langley Research Centre. Date: 1955

McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 83-0024
United States Air Force - McDonnell Douglas F-15C-35-MC Eagle 83-0024 (MSN 0872 / C284), of the 94th FS at Langley AFB. Date: circa 1997

Cunard Line, QE2 - celebration album in slip case cover
Cunard Line, Isle of Man Post Office QE2 Farewell Season Celebration. Limited edition 156 of 189 QE2 Farewell Season Celebration large 14.5 x 14 inches album in slip case cover

McDonnell Douglas F-15C-30-MC Eagle 81-0021
United States Air Force (USAF) - McDonnell Douglas F-15C-30-MC Eagle 81-0021 (MSN 0735/C204, base code FF'), of the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing at Langley AFB, Virginia. Date: circa 1986

Lockheed F-104C-10-LO Starfighter 57-0916 (msn 383-1233), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. Date: circa 1990

North American F-100D Super Sabre 54-2145
United States Air Force - North American F-100D-5-NA Super Sabre 54-2145 (msn 223-2), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. Date: circa 1980

Republic F-105D-15-RE Thunderchief 61-0073 (msn D268), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. (Erroneously marked as 61-10073) Date: circa 1990

North American F-86H Sabre 53-1483
North American F-86H-10-NH Sabre 53-1483 (msn 203-255, buzz number FU-483), at Luke AFB, AZ. later mounted on a pylon at Langley AFB Air Park, Virginia. Date: circa 1980

North American F-86L Sabre 51-3064 (msn 177-121), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. Date: circa 1980

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star 52-9734
Lockheed T-33A-5-LO 52-9734 (msn 580-7959), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia

McDonnell F-101F Voodoo 56-0246
McDonnell F-101F-56-MC Voodoo 56-0246, on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. Date: circa 1990

Northrop F-89J Scorpion 52-2129
Northrop F-89J-45-NO Scorpion 52-2129, on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia. Date: circa 1990

Langley, British Columbia, Canada - Skyway Air Services, Ltd. A Piper PA-18 Super Cub about to take off. Date: 1961

General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon 78-001
General Dynamics F-16A Block 1 Fighting Falcon 78-001 (MSN 61-7), the first F-16 delivered to the USAF, on display at Langley AFB, Virginia. Date: circa 2000

McDonnell Douglas F-15A-1-MC Eagle 71-0281 (MSN 0002 / A002), on display at Langley AFB, Virginia. Date: circa 2000

Page from The Sketch reporting on an anonymous Watteau party in fact arranged by Heather Pilkington and Olivia Wyndham

Photograph of Meynell Arms, Kirk Langley, Derbyshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

The Actors Orphanage, Barrowford, Langley
A view across a pond to the Actors Orphanage, Barrowford, Langley, Berkshire. Date: circa 1920

Boeing YP-29 34-23 (Boeing Model 264). The YP-29 is seen here fitted with an experimental variable-pitch propeller

Royal Air Force - Hawker Hurricane IIc PZ865 Last of the Many of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, seen on display fitted with a non-standard four-bladed propeller

Douglas YO-31A 31-604 (in the NACA wind tunnel at Langley)
Douglas YO-31A 31-604 (msn 1069), shown mounted in the full-scale National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) wind tunnel at Langley, Virginia

Pigeon Scout
Pigeon Fraser Scout 117, delivered to Langley Field November 1917, transferred o McCook Field for testing, but crashed soon after taking off on its first flight, killing the pilot

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

THEATRE / SWAN / 1614
A view of this London theatre peeping out from among the trees of Southwark. Built in 1594-96 by Francis Langley it was built of a concrete of flint stones & wooden columns. Date: 1614

Provident Retreat, Abbots Langley
Opening of the booksellers Provident Retreat, Abbots Langley. Date: 1846

United States Navy Boeing F3B-1 A7675
United States Navy Boeing Model 77 F3B-1 A7675 (msn 938), the first production F3B-1, of VF-2, marked 2-F-19, served on USS Langley. Date: 1930

Convair C-131B Samaritan O-53-7793 (MSN 245) assigned to NASA Langley Research Center, Langley Field, VA 1974 designated NC-131B prior to re-engining as NC-131H

Langley Aerodrome 1903 Failure at Launch, Take-Off Crash Date: 1903

Firefighters at scene of fire, Langley Park School

Hotel Langley, Hampton, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1910s

Aircraft Carrier Langley
The U.S.S. Langley plane carrier of the American navy, carries planes on both its upper and lower decks Date: 1927

Marianne Fords Scenery
Group photo of the Scenery team in their studio

Herbert Langley and Hilda Bailey in The Flames of Passion (1
Herbert Langley and Hilda Bailey in a tense moment from The Flames of Passion (1922) directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1923

Herbert Langley in The Wonderful Story (1922) produced by Herbert Wilcox and directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1923

Lady Kindersley as a waste paper merchant, WW1
Lady Kindersley, formerly Miss Gladys Beadle, pictured near her home in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, collecting waste paper with the aid of her children and two donkey carts

Baxter Langley
BAXTER LANGLEY Political and social reformer in London. Date: CIRCA 1867

Sir John Kederminster
SIR JOHN KEDERMINSTER of Langley, gentleman aged 52 Date: 1576 - 1631

Hawker Fury at Langley, 11 May 1949

A Lockheed Altair in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA

A Loening XSL-1 single-engine flying boat in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in October 1931. Date: 1931

Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906)
Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834-1906. Date: 1906

Wright brothers leaving the Smithsonian Institution
The Wright brothers leaving the Smithsonian Institution after the presentation of the Langley Medal. 10 February 1910. From left: Secretary Charles D. Walcott, Wilbur Wright, Dr A

Langleys successful petrol-driven 1 / 4-scale model 1903
Samuel Pierpont Langleys successful petrol-driven -scale model flies over the potomac. August 8th 1903

The Langley Aerodrome No 6

Hawker Hurricanes on the Langley production line

Hawker Hurricane IICs on the Langley production line in 1943. Date: 1943

Leavesden Asylum, Hertfordshire
Male attendants in a ward at the Asylum for Imbeciles opened in 1870 at Leavesden near Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire

Booksellers Retreat
The Booksellers Provident Retreat at Abbots Langley, Herts built as a result of the benevolence of paper magnate John Dickinson in 1844. The house is still used this way

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