Parachute Collection (page 4)

RAF Falcons freefall team, France
Sky diver belonging to the RAF Falcons freefall team, taking part in an activity in France. Date: 1965

RAF parachutists pouring beer while in freefall. Date: 1960s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Wing the Airmans Wife. circa 1930s

Parachute Jump 1929
1500 meters above Hawaii, a parachutist jumps from a U.S. Navy biplane Date: 1929

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JACQUES GARNERIN makes a descent over central London, landing near St Pancras Date: 21 September 1802

Duke of Edinburgh inspecting paratroopers weapons
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, inspecting paratroopers weapons at a training demonstration station at Caesars Camp, Aldershot on 15 April 1955

Ammunition Supply By Air
The Last Days of Fighting: Ammunition-Supply By Air Ammunition is dropped from the air, by parachute, from a British biplane to keep troops in the front line supplied

Descent by parachute of Jacques Garnerin from a balloon.. Experimental descent by parachute from a balloon by the Jacques Garnerin, October 1797

Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards hydrogen balloon, 1784.. Descent of Jean-Pierre Blanchards hydrogen balloon, 2 March 1784, near Paris. Balloon with parachute and flapping wings

An S. A. S. parachute operation in the Malayan jungle
A squadron of 57 Special Air Service (S.A.S.) paratroops parachuting into the deep Perak jungle searching for Malayan Communists. Date: 1952

S. A. S. parachute practice in the jungle
Parachute jumping in Malaya by members of the Special Air Service Regiment (S.A.S.) The photographs were taken at the Negri Sembilan jungle. Date: 1955

Miss Lily Cove, Howarth, Yorkshire
Miss Lily Cove, Howarth, near Keighley, Yorkshire, England. Victim of Parachute Accident, at Howarth Date: 1907

Letting Himself Down, by Bairnsfather
Letting Himself Down Having omitted to remove the elastic band prior to descent, Herr Franz von Flopp feels that the trial exhibition of his new parachute is a failure

First World War (1918). Supplying for the English army coming from a parachute. Drawing

Engraving of man escaping fire via parachute
Engraving of a man escaping from a fire via a small parachute attached to the belt of his trousers

Blitz in London -- bomb disposal at Charing Cross
Blitz in London -- soldiers using a trolley to remove a land mine on Hungerford Railway Bridge, Charing Cross, on 17 April 1941. Date: 1941

RFA men with parachute equipment, France, WW1
Men of the RFA (Royal Field Artillery) with parachute equipment on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are responsible for air observation using kite balloons

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

British science and ingenuity in war by G. H. Davis
How British science and ingenuity contributed to the defeat of the Germans at sea, on land, and in the air. A few of the many weapons, devices and tactics, both offensive and defensive

Merchant Ship Fighter Unit by G. H. Davis
The Merchant Ship Fighter Unit (MSFU) at work during the Second World War: a system which was able to defeat the long-range bomber

Money and munitions by G. H. Davis
Money and munitions: an illustrated armament catalogue. Pictures showing the various costs of the weapons used during the Second World War, ranging from a battleship at 8, 000

Number of planes needed to land 1000 men by G. H. Davis
The enormous number of planes needed to land even 1000 men in Britain by air. A schematic drawing showing the fleet of aircraft needed to carry even 1000 men for an aerial invasion

New instrument of total war by G. H. Davis
A new instrument of total war: British and German troop carriers. Invasion by parachute armies: Germans improve on a Soviet device. 1940

Europe to America in 45 minutes by G. H. Davis
Not a Wellsian fantasy, but an actual project in preparation by Germany: Europe to America in 45 minutes. Drawings of a long-range rocket designed in Germany during the Second World War

Saved by parachute from a burning plane
An airman is saved by his parachute from a burning plane which plummets to the ground. Date: 1928

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

Garnerins descent by parachute
Newspaper report with colour illustrations of Garnerins descent by parachute, London. Date: 21 September 1802

Lt Col Orde Lees about to hit the water after diving hea?
Lt Col Orde Lees about to hit the water after diving head first from Tower Bridge to demonstrate a Guardian Angel parachute, 11 November 1917

Lt Col Orde Lees being dragged through the water after d?
Lt Col Orde Lees being dragged through the water after diving head first from Tower Bridge to demonstrate a Guardian Angel parachute, 11 November 1917

Lt Col Orde Lees diving head first from Tower Bridge to ?
Lt Col Orde Lees diving head first from Tower Bridge to demonstrate a Guardian Angel parachute, 11 November 1917

US Parachute Troops - WWII Date: 1942

New York Worlds Fair - The Parachute Jump - a 200 ft tower - one of the highest buidlings at the fair Date: 1939

Mr W Newell preparing for a parachute descent
Mr W. Newell preparing for a parachute descent from the Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc or Aero-bus on 9 May 1914. At 5, 000ft Mr Newell jumped from the skid

Andre-Jacques Garnerins descent
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Cockings fatal parachute descent 24th July 1837
Cockings fatal parachute descent, 24 July 1837

Sketch of Garnerins parachute (left)
Left: Sketch of Garnerins parachute. Right: Sketch of a bladed parachute suggested by the Goatsbeard fruit. Design Illustration from Cayleys original notebook

Diagram of a canopied parachute 1809
Fig. 1 Diagram of a canopied parachute, 1809. Fig. 2 Diagram of a diehedral parachute

George Cayleys governable parachute. Developed from a design for a man-carrying glider, called a governable parachute. Facsimile of the illustrations as they appeared in Mechanics magazine

Radioplane OQ-19A radio-controlled target demonstrated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, after returning to the ground by parachute

The first test of the first goreless wonder, dropped in stick with a standard parachute for comparison in descent. The vintage Virginia, the last of its line

The first prototype Avro Vulcan VX770 coming to a stop
The first prototype Avro Vulcan, VX770, coming to a stop with the aid of a braking parachute on a snowy runway

Lithograph of Andr魊acques Garnerins parachute descent
Lithograph of Andre

Balloon event, Charles Green, Leicester
Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 411th ascent in his Royal Victoria Balloon, from the Cricket Ground, Leicester. With special trains laid on from nearby cities. 27 June 1849

Blanchards balloon and apparatus
A representation of Jean-Pierre Blanchards balloon and apparatus, with annotations. Below the large round balloon is a parachute, and under that two men in the gondola with wings for steering. 1780s

Garnerin descending in his parachute, Paris
Garnerin descending in his parachute, with his discarded balloon on the left. Claimed to be the first to descend from a balloon by means of a parachute

Balloon event, Charles Green, Aylesbury
Grand Aerostatic Fete at Aylesbury, 416th Balloon Ascent by Mr Charles Green in his Royal Victoria Balloon. From a spacious meadow belonging to Mr T J Hinds of the Black Swan Inn, Cambridge Street

Sketch of Cockings parachute
Drawing of R Cockings parachute in which he died. Above it is a handwritten note by John Sadler, stating that his last ascent in a balloon was from St Jamess Park, London, on 1 August 1814

Balloons and parachutes
Full front page from The Penny Dispatch, giving five images of balloons and parachutes. Top left: the Royal Nassau Balloon, first ascent

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