Unusual Collection (page 9)

Brennan helicopter
Brennan Helicopter Unusual Design by Mr Graham Piloted Louis Brennan at Farnborough Date: 1924

Mignet HM-14 Pou du Ciel
Mignet Hm-14 Pou Du Ciel Unusual Design Light-Aircraft Date: 1930s

Fabre Hydro Floatplane 1910
Fabre Hydro Floatplane of 1910 Unusual Design after the First Successful Take-Off from Water by Henri Fabre Date: 1910

Line-Drawing of Mr R J Spaldings Patented Flying Machin?
Line-Drawing of Mr R J Spaldings Patented Flying Machine Ornithopter in 1889, Patent Number 398, 984 Date: 1889

Line-Drawing of Frederick W Breareys Patented Ornithopt?
Line-Drawing of Frederick W Breareys Patented Ornithopter in 1879, Based on the Movement of a Skate Fish in an Aquarium Date: 1879

Illustration of the Bird Man Hero of Restif de La Breton?
Illustration of the Bird Man Hero of Restif de La Bretonnes Book La Decouvert Australe of 1781 Taking-Off from a Cliff Edge with Umbrella & Basket Date: 1781

Line-Drawing of the Kaufmann Steam Powered Ornithopter o?
Line-Drawing of the Kaufmann Steam Powered Ornithopter of 1868 Date: 1868

SNECMA C-400 P1 ATAR volonte
The Atar Volonte Prototype, Being Prepared for Another Flight, on the Ground in the Tethered Test-Rig with Engineers Working Date: 1950s

Engraving of Vincent de Groof (A Belgian) Ornithopter De?
Engraving of Vincent de Groof (A Belgian) Ornithopter Design, Released from a Free Balloon after Ascending from Gemorne Gardens, London, UK. He Plunged to His Death. Date: 1874

Northrop YRB-49A
Yrb-49A Flying Wing Prototype Converted from a Yb-35 with a Rear Gunners Position High over the Mojave Desert, with Six Allison J-35 Jet Engine Including 2 in Pods under the Wing Date: 1940s

Flying Machine Inventor Unknown 1877 1877

Line-Drawing of Rj Spaldings Patented Flying Machine, Usa Date: 1889

Major Bfs Baden Powell and His Flying Wing Ornithopter i?
Major Bfs Baden Powell and His Flying Wing Ornithopter in the Mid to Late 1890S Date: 1890s

John Lampert (Age 33) with His Man Powered Flexible Mamb?
John Lampert (Age 33) with His Man Powered Flexible Mambrane Variable Geometry Ornithopter at Bishops Rise, Hatfield, UK in 1975 Attempting to Fly Date: 1975

Caproni STIPA Tubular Fuselage
Caproni Stipa Tubular Fuselage Unusual Design Parked with Pilot Boarding Helped by a Ground-Engineer Date: 1932

Ryan X-13 Vertijet Unusual Vtol Design Flying Date: 1956

Douglas X-3 Stiletto Prototype Unusual Design Date: 1952

Lockspieser LDA-1 Land Development Aircraft
Lockspieser Lda-1 Land Development Aircraft Unusual Design Flying Date: 1960s

Norris X-99M Unusual Design by Rolla V Norris Date: 1929

Helio Gyro Copter Unusual Design Parked Date: 1930

Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon
Lockheed Xfv-1 Salmon Unusual Design Vtol Tail-Sitter Tilted at 45 Degrees in a Rig after Test-Flights Had Finished Date: 1958

Convair Model 118 Convaircar
A Convair Model 118 Convaircar Unusual Design of an Aerocar Designed by Theodore P Hall Date: 1947

Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig / Flying Bedstead Hovering During a Test-Flight

Horton Wingless
The Horton Wingless Unusual Design Twin-Engined Light-Aircraft Parked Date: 1954

Hughes XH-17 Flying Crane
The Kellett Hughes Xh-17 Flying Crane Unusual Design First-Flight of the Then Worlds Largest Helicopter Date: 1952

Givaudan Annular 1908
The Givaudan Annular Flying Machine, (Upright) H-T-A Tandem Ring in France in 1908 Date: 1908

Fashionable Style - Massive hat with feather adornment
Fashionable Bulgarian Style - Pretty model wearing a massive hat with Ostrich Feathers adornment, shaped almost like eagles wings!! She is enjoying a glass of something strong

Big Hat - A Martyr to fashion
A young girl who is clearly a Martyr to Fashion. Comic postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Date: circa 1910

French Fashion - Large back felt hat worn by a photographic model, although the hat is rendered in felt and fabric and the girls hair is from some un-determined source

I d like to Swagger All My Life - But I ll have to be trotting back to work next week confund it. Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large

The Whole Family up-to-date - Swagger Style. Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Date: 1912

Fashionable Edwardian Swagger Style - Gentlemans Hat
Fashionable Edwardian Swagger Style - Gent wearing an all-enveloping hat - a mild satire on the penchant for women (and men) to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Date: 1909

Laval, France - The Two Railway Stations and the Avenue. Date: 1911

Smart, sartorially-confident Gent at the seaside, resplendent in old school blazer and tartan cap on holiday, pictured on The Esplanade Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Date: circa 1939

Smart Gentleman and young daughter in garden
Smart Gentleman (perhaps somewhat overdressed?!) and his young daughter in garden, who is wearing a very smart coat and boots

Elderly Indian Snake Charmer - enticing a cobra to dance Date: circa 1900s

Fijian Warriors on a visit to Balmoral, Scotland
Adolf Brester (1854-1937) with a group of Fijian Warriors (Armed Police) pictured in their uniforms standing in front of the castle on a visit to Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Date: 1902

Die-cut Trade Card for F G Jaeger Confectioners of Brockton, Massachusetts, USA, using the somewhat surprising visual motifs of an artists palette and a kitten... Date: circa 1900s

Japan - Poling rafts along the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Advertising postcard - New Home Sewing Machine
The worlds greatest sewing machine is the New Home made by Gonyea and Alba of Rutland, Vermont, enabling repairs to be carried out in situ...! Date: circa 1910

Phyllis from Bishop Auckland in the guise of Little Bo Peep... no sheep visible in shot, perhaps she has lost them? Date: 1913

Stunning portrait - Chic French girl in Spiders Web Cap - see also: 10137800 Date: 1920s

San Salvador, Aculhuaca Road with Horse Railway
San Salvador - The Road to Aculhuaca Road. Note the interesting early Horse Railway back left. Date: circa 1905

Performing Fleas - Street Entertainment - North East London. Date: circa 1907

French Humorous Postcard - Gent riding a Pike. Date: circa 1907

A Belle of New York, heading behind a curtain
An unusual embossed photographic postcard of a Belle of New York, heading behind a curtain. Date: circa 1904

The First and Last Postman - Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1964

Italian Happy New Year card - celebrating arrival into 1906
A spectacularly Kitsch postcard celebrating the arrival of the New Year - 1906! The numbers each house a cheeky young boy (of varied ages) and are filled with little blue flowers. Date: 1905

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