Rapidly Gallery

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120 (BuAer number 33512), based at Oakland Naval Air Station in California, being used as a recruitment billboard for the US Naval Reserve. The K-class blimps originated in 1931 as the USN's first blimp with the car attached to the envelope, as opposed to suspended from cables. Given a variety of designations, with modifications and design changes, this particular K-class started life ca1940 as a ZNPK-3 (Z=airship, N=non-rigid, P=Patrol, K=K-class), the N (for non-rigid) was dropped in 1947 and re-designated again in 1954 as a ZSG-3 (Z=airship, S=anti-submarine, G=Goodyear). The USN fairly rapidly shut down lighter than air operations from 1959, with the last blimps leaving the inventory in 1961. Date: 1959

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Breaking up of the ice, Arctic, c.1849

Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men standing on the rapidly breaking up ice pack, with their ship in the background. This image was created in order to give the readers of the Illustrated London News an idea of the conditions that the Franklin and Ross expeditions of the 1840's might encounter in the Arctic

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

New York Traffic congestion

Illustration of congestion in New York city, showing carnage on the streets especially at rush hours. It is a state that it was felt London was rapidly approaching

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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