Aeronautical Collection (page 9)

Method for starting Gustave Trouves ornithopter. Invented in 1870, it was the first ornithopter to successfully fly
TROUVEs ORNITHOPTER. Method for starting Gustave Trouves ornithopter. Invented in 1870, it was the first ornithopter to successfully fly. Contemporary American engraving

Diagram of the Convair 880 commercial jet
CONVAIR 880 JET AIRLINER. Diagram of the Convair 880 commercial jet

The F2A Buffalo airplane of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, used as a fighter plane in World War II
BREWSTER AERONAUTICAL CORP. The F2A Buffalo airplane of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, used as a fighter plane in World War II. Photograph, 1930s

An Aviation Machinists Mate of the U. S. Navy works on the powerhouse of a Curtiss SO3C Seamew floatplane scout
CURTISS SO3C SEAMEW. An Aviation Machinists Mate of the U.S. Navy works on the powerhouse of a Curtiss SO3C Seamew floatplane scout, mid-20th century

Vincent J. Burnellis all-wing eighty passenger transport plane, 1945. The aircraft was powered by eight 2
BURNELLI CBY-3 AIRCRAFT. Vincent J. Burnellis all-wing eighty passenger transport plane, 1945. The aircraft was powered by eight 2

The all-wing eighty passenger transport aircraft designed by Vincent J. Burnelli, 1945
BURNELLI CBY-3 AIRCRAFT. The all-wing eighty passenger transport aircraft designed by Vincent J. Burnelli, 1945. The plane was powered by eight 2

U. S. Army Air Corps Blimp, c1940
U.S. ARMY BLIMP, c1940. U.S. Army Air Corps Blimp, c1940

Aerodynamic forces in flight, diagram C018 / 3556
Aerodynamic forces in flight. Diagram showing the forces (arrows) that act on an aeroplane in flight. Lift is generated through, and acts perpendicular to, the wings

Early computers C014 / 0565
Early computers. People working with IBM type 704 electronic data processing machines. Photographed at NASAs Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA, in 1961

Bellanca Model CD aeroplane, 1920s C018 / 0615
Bellanca Model CD aeroplane. This aircraft was designed by Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886-1960)

Elinor Smith, US aviation pioneer C018 / 0619
Elinor Smith (1911-2010), US aviation pioneer. Smith began learning to fly at the age of ten, flying solo at the age of fifteen

Bellanca Airfield, 1929 C018 / 0623
Bellanca Airfield. Aerial photograph of the airfield founded in 1928 by Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886-1960) and US industrialist Henry Belin du Pont (1898-1970)

Bellanca Model J aeroplane, 1920s C018 / 0616
Bellanca Model J aeroplane, with 3 Musketeers on the side. This aircraft, a high-wing monoplane, was designed by Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886-1960)

Bellanca Especial aeroplane, 1920s C018 / 0617
Bellanca Especial aeroplane. This aircraft, designated job number 114, is a high-wing monoplane. It was designed by Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886-1960)

Bellanca pilots and aeroplane, 1920s C018 / 0618
Bellanca pilots and aeroplane. Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (lower centre, 1886-1960) with two Bellanca pilots and a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker aeroplane named Rosemarie

Apollo 9 docked command module in orbit C014 / 4702
Apollo 9 docked command module in orbit. Photograph taken by lunar module pilot Rusty Schweickart of Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott standing in the open hatch of the Command Module docked to the Lunar

Venus probe, conceptual image C013 / 5644
Venus probe, conceptual image. Computer artwork of an exploratory probe on the surface of Venus

Early Wright aircraft, circa 1908-11 C017 / 7836
Early Wright aircraft, circa 1908-11. The model seen here is one of the early powered aircraft built by US aviation pioneers the Wright brothers (Orville Wright, 1871-1948; Wilbur Wright, 1867-1912)

USS Shenandoah airship and tender, 1924 C017 / 7838
USS Shenandoah airship moored to its tender the newly-converted USS Patoka during tests in 1924. The Shenandoah was the first rigid airship used by the US Navy

Airship America, Spitzbergen, circa 1906 C017 / 7834
Airship America, Spitzbergen, circa 1906. Commissioned by US journalist and explorer Walter Wellman (1858-1934), and built in France for his expedition to reach the North Pole

Paul Tissandiers balloon license, 1904
Paul Tissandiers balloon license, issued by the Aero-Club de France on 7 January 1904. French aeronaut Paul Tissandier (1881-1945)

Vedrines and his military aircraft, 1910s C017 / 7832
Vedrines and his military aircraft. French aviator Jules Vedrines (1881-1919) with his military aircraft. Vedrines is at lower left, with a French soldier behind him

Walter Hinton, US aviator C017 / 7822
Walter T. Hinton (1888-1981), US aviator. Hinton joined the US Navy as a young man, seeing action in 1914. He became one of the early naval aviators

Salyut 6 Soviet space station C013 / 8984
Salyut 6 soviet space station. View of the Soviet Salyut 6, or DOS-5, orbital space station in orbit above the Earth with the Soyuz 31 spacecraft (bottom) docked with it

Salyut 6 Soviet space station C013 / 8983
Salyut 6 soviet space station. View of the Soviet Salyut 6, or DOS-5, orbital space station in orbit above the Earth with two Soyuz spacecraft docked with it - one at either end

Salyut 6 Soviet space station C013 / 8982
Salyut 6 soviet space station. View of the Soviet Salyut 6, or DOS-5, orbital space station in orbit above the Earth with a Soyuz spacecraft (far left) docked with it

Kepler Mission space telescope, artwork C013 / 8967
Kepler Mission space telescope. Computer artwork of NASAs Kepler telescope in space. The Kepler Mission is designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars

Space tourism, conceptual image C013 / 8954
Space tourism, conceptual image

NASAs C-9 zero-gravity aeroplane on the downwards descent portion of a parabolic trajectory. This McDonnell Douglas C-9 aircraft is a variant of the DC-9

Astronaut students training in free-fall C013 / 5114
Astronaut students training in free-fall. Astronaut candidates from both NASA and the Japanese space agency (JAXA) experiencing free-fall in a training aircraft

CIVIL WAR: GAS GENERATORS. Union soldiers in Washington, D. C. 1863, with balloon gas generators used by Thaddeus S. C
CIVIL WAR: GAS GENERATORS. Union soldiers in Washington, D.C. 1863, with balloon gas generators used by Thaddeus S.C. Lowes Army Aeronautic Corps when surveying Confederate troop movements across

SOLOMON ANDREWS AIRSHIP. The first steerable airship in flight, invented by Dr. Solomon Andrews in 1863

HOT AIR BALLOON. Hot air balloon approaching the city of London. 19th century engraving

MONTGOLFIER BALLOON. First public Montgolfier balloon ascent at Annonay, France, on June 4, 1783

ROBERT & CHARLES: BALLOON. Ascent of Robert and Charles in a hydrogen balloon at Tuilleries, December, 1783: contermporary engraving

MONTGOLFIER BALLOON. Ascent at Versailles on Sept. 19, 1783, of a Montgolfier balloon with a sheep, duck, and rooster

WRIGHT BROTHERS BIPLANE. German engraving, early 20th century

MONTGOLFIER BALLOON. Third public Montgolfier balloon ascent at Lyon, France, 1784

Balloon ascent. Historical artwork of the stages of an ascent in a balloon by a Mr. Hampton from Cremorne House in Chelsea, London, England

First Soviet heavy bomber, 1925
First Soviet heavy bomber. Aircraft crew on the wings of an ANT-4 bomber in 1925. This aircraft was the first Soviet heavy bomber

Tu-144, the first supersonic jet, 1969
First supersonic jet, the Tupolev Tu-144, in flight over Russia in June 1969, being escorted by a MiG-21 fighter jet (lower left)

Flying machine

Antonov and his glider, 1923
Antonov and his glider. Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov (1906-1984, pilot) preparing for the test flight of his first glider in August 1923. Antonov was only 17 at the time

First Soviet rocket aeroplane, the BI-1, on display struts at a museum. Developed by the Soviet Union, the full name of the design is the Bereznyak-Isayev (BI-1), after its designers

Parachute descent

Early Soviet autogyro, 1932
Early Soviet autogyro taking off on a test flight on 10 October 1932. An autogyro takes off like an aeroplane, relying on its forward motion to rotate the rotor blades and provide upwards lift

Robotic helicopter with an onboard computer (metal box, lower centre) for its autopilot program. The leads link to servo-mechanisms that the computer uses to fly the helicopter

Aerodynamics experiment. Researcher adjusting aeronautical equipment being used in a physics experiment. Photographed in the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

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