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Royal Aeronautical Society Collection (#10)

Fabulous images from the archive of the National Aerospace Library of the Royal Aeronautical Society, devoted to aviation and aerospace history

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Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition

Cover design, Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition, 11 to 19 March 1910, at Olympia, west London. Showing a variety of aircraft and boats. 1910

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Flying by Mechanical Means

Flying by Mechanical Means
Designs for man-powered flight, modelled on birds. 1810

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine, showing three draughtsmen with their designs, looking up in wonder at their inventions, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of motored flight. December 1928

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine, showing a passenger plane with a coastline below. October 1928

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine, showing a seaplane by moonlight. September 1928

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation and Aeronautics

Cover design, Popular Aviation and Aeronautics Magazine, showing biplanes flying near a battleship. May 1929

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing a pilot taking off from an airfield in a colourful biplane. October 1932

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing racing cars on a circuit with a futuristic red aeroplane soaring above them. September 1932

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine combined with Practical Mechanics, showing two criminals in a red car being pursued by two policemen in a biplane

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine, showing a biplane on target practice. June 1932

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine

Cover design, Popular Aviation Magazine, showing a red and white plane racing a speedboat. May 1932

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight

Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight
Magazine cover of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Automobilia and Flight. Depicting a lion looking up at an airship. June 1909

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight

Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight
Magazine cover of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Automobilia and Flight. Depicting an elegant woman in a green dress and matching hat with a smart car and chauffeur behind her

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight

Magazine cover, Automobilia and Flight
Magazine cover of the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Automobilia and Flight, English edition, published in Paris. Depicting a driver at the wheel wearing a leather helmet and goggles. January 1909

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Book cover, La Conquete de l Air

Book cover, La Conquete de l Air

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome

Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome
Official programme cover for the London Aerodrome, Hendon, 7th London Aviation Meeting, 9-13 April 1914 (weather permitting)

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: International Air Rally Poster

International Air Rally Poster
Poster, International Air Rally at Lympne, near Hythe, Kent, organised by the Cinque Ports Flying Club. Depicting two planes and a parachute. August 1935

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, showing a passenger airliner flying over a cruise liner. Below is a timetable for the Portsmouth to Ryde Air Ferry Service. 1932

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Air Mail Poster

Air Mail Poster
GPO poster, Use Air Mail. Showing the outline of a monoplane on a black background. 1934

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Empire Air Day Poster

Empire Air Day Poster
Poster, Empire Air Day 1935, showing a plane flying above a simplified map of the British Empire. May 1935

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Air Mail Poster

Air Mail Poster
GPO Airmail Poster, Into the Air, depicting the growth in the use of air mail for letters and parcels from the UK from 1927 to 1933. 1930s

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Egyptian Airlines Poster

Egyptian Airlines Poster
Poster, Fly with MISR Airwork, Egyptian Airlines, Cairo. Showing a De Havilland biplane on a black background. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: National League of Airmen Poster

National League of Airmen Poster
Poster, National League of Airmen, formed to promote Britains air security. This Concerns You, Enrol Now. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd (PS & IOWA), Book Here, The Island Air Express, save time and see more, the Isle of Wight Air Ferry

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: GPO By Air Mail Poster

GPO By Air Mail Poster

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster

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

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: The Sky Devils Air Circus Poster

The Sky Devils Air Circus Poster
Poster, The Sky Devils Air Circus, Great 1944 Display, 10 years ahead of its time! Come and win 500. Issued by Air Pageants Ltd. 1944

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2

RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2
RAF Poster, Back Them Up!, showing a British daylight bombing raid on Knapsack Power Station, near Koln, Germany, during the Second World War. 1941

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Exhibition of Airports and Airways Poster

Exhibition of Airports and Airways Poster
Poster, Exhibition of Airports and Airways, arranged by the Royal Institute of British Architects, admission free. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Empire Air Day Poster

Empire Air Day Poster
Poster, Empire Air Day 1935, showing a plane flying above a simplified map of the British Empire. May 1935

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Poster, Scotts flight from England to Australia

Poster, Scotts flight from England to Australia
Poster, Royal Matinee, Queens Hall, London, CWA Scott AFC will tell his graphic story of the flight from England to Australia in under 3 days

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: By Air Anywhere Poster

By Air Anywhere Poster, Croydon 3421, see London by night. Surrey Flying Services Ltd, Croydon & Plymouth. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: International Aero Exhibition Poster

International Aero Exhibition Poster
Poster, We are exhibiting at the International Aero Exhibition, Olympia, July 16-27. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Nord Air Express Poster

Nord Air Express Poster
Nord Air Express Air France - Sabena Poster, the direct route for Scandinavia, with a map showing routes between cities. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Pleasure Flights Poster

Pleasure Flights Poster
Poster, Pleasure Flights at the City Airport, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland

Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a Scylla passenger plane flying to Switzerland, with a mermaid and merman looking up in wonder. 1935

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Imperial Airways Poster, Reliability, Comfort

Imperial Airways Poster, Reliability, Comfort. Showing details of the equipment of the most luxurious air liners in the world (Heracles Class), with pictograms of features on a yellow background. 1934

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Imperial Airways Poster, travel in comfort

Imperial Airways Poster, travel in comfort
Imperial Airways Poster, Travel In Comfort, serving Europe, Africa, India and the East, depicting a globe with routes marked. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Imperial Airways Poster, by air in comfort

Imperial Airways Poster, by air in comfort
Imperial Airways Poster, By Air in Comfort, to Europe, Africa, Asia. 20th century

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe

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

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe

Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon

Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon, showing three planes flying in formation above the spectators, leaving red and white trails of smoke in the sky. 1931

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon

Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon, showing spectators looking up at three planes. 1930

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon

Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon, showing planes in the air and two explosions blowing up a bridge. 1927

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Concorde G-BOa a Boeing 747 and a VC10

Concorde G-BOa a Boeing 747 and a VC10
Concorde, G-BOa, a Boeing 747 and a VC10 at the British Airways stand at J.F. Kennedy Airport, New York. Black and white

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Concorde in British Airways colours takes-off

Concorde in British Airways colours takes-off
Concorde, in British Airways colours takes-off

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: de Havilland DH98 Mosquito FBXVIII

de Havilland DH98 Mosquito FBXVIII

Background imageRoyal Aeronautical Society Collection: Concorde 206 G-BOa in flight

Concorde 206 G-BOa in flight
Concorde 206, G-BOa, in flight



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