Air Ship Collection (page 5)

Aeroplane and airship
An aeroplane and a huge airship share air space above the clouds

Willows Airship above St Pauls Cathedral, London

Flag commemorating the Hindenburg
Triangular flag commemorating the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1936. The airship crashed at Lakehurst the following year

Anti-airship battery
A sketch of war. One of the first anti-aircraft guns - a French artllery team with a gun on a rotating mounting, specifically used to target airships

Zeppelin wreckage
Infantry working on Zeppelin wreckage in England during World War I

Airship over the Champs Elysees, Paris
An Airship flying over the Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris. The street is filled with early motor taxis

The Gamma I Airship at Aldershot - an early British Army airship, tested prior to World War One

The Lebaudy Morning Star Airship in 1910 - paid for by readers of the Morning Star.On 26th October 1910 this was the second airship to cross the English Channel South to North

War Loan Campaign in Trafalgar Square, London, 1918
Photograph showing the War Loan Campaign exhibition in Trafalgar Square, London, in March 1918. Inset, top right, is a picture of the British airship from which the Countess of Drogheda dropped

A propeller attached to the wreckage of a German zeppelin
The wreckage of a German zeppelin shot down by British fighter planes and anti-aircraft fire following a bombing raid on London, 23rd September 1916

EAGLE AIRSHIP
Designed by comte de Lennox, the Eagle is intended to fly from London to Paris in 6 hours : but it is too heavy, fails to get airborne, and will be destroyed in Paris

Venus Airship
The innovative people of Venus develop this birdlike man- powered airship which moves by flapping its wings. Date: 1942

Airship of Pluto
The people of Pluto solve the problem, how to fly when theres no atmosphere, by developing this flying wing which uses electro-magnetic force for propulsion

Radium Airship
Other worlds will surely develop their own technologies for space travel : this radium-powered airship of Saturn uses the planets natural resources

Airship of Io
On Io, third of Jupiters moons, atomic power has been harnessed for the purposes of aviation : this airship is really a rocket ship with wings

Airship of Europa
On Europa, Jupiters fourth largest moon, the science of plastics is advanced to its ultimate in this light and transparent airship

The Zeppelin LZ 129, under construction, 1934
Photograph of the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 under construction at Friedrichshafen, March 1934. Known as the Hindenberg when completed

PATRIE ON TEST
The military airship Patrie on test at Chalons military camp

Nobile in Radio Contact
Umberto Nobile flew the airship Norge over the North Pole in 1926. His second attempt in 1928 in Italia ended in a crash landing. Making radio contact - Italy

Bombers of Zeppelin
In order to improve the safety and accuracy of airship bombing, bomb-aimers survey the landscape below the clouds by using a suspended car

R101 CRASH - 1
THE R.101 : badly designed, inadequately tested and overloaded, the airship crashes near Beauvais, France, on its way to India

Zeppelin Lz 4 / Postcard
Zeppelin LZ-4

Launch from Airship
Aeroplanes are carried beneath an airship, to be released if the airship should be attacked by hostile aircraft

Aeroplane Airship Duel
A duel between an aeroplane and an airship - foreseeing the aerial warfare of World War One

Dupuy de Lome airship
Nacelle (basket or carriage) of Dupuy de Lomes dirigible

Nobile / Airship / Spitzberg
Umberto Nobile flew the airship Norge over the North Pole in 1926. His second attempt in 1928 in Italia ended in a crash landing. Flying over Spitzbergen

Plane Attacks Balloon
A British biplane attacks a balloon protecting an enemy airship shed near Ghent

Amundsen / Airship Norge
Norwegian polar explorer and aviator, who died attempting to rescue Umberto Nobile

Parseval III Airship
PARSEVAL III military airship

Parseval Airship
PARSEVAL military airship

Clouth German Airship
CLOUTH military airship

Gross German Airship
GROSS military airship

Perseval Airship 1915
Parseval military airship : its inventor, Major von Parseval, claims it can be inflated/deflated more rapidly than any competing airship

Zeppelin in Flight
Graf Zeppelins first lenkbares Luftschiff (dirigible airship) in full flight over the German countryside

Zeppelin over Paris 1914
A German airship hovers menacingly over Paris

Hunting with Airships
We can be sure that Man, by instinct a hunter, will turn the airship to good account and pursue the fowls of the air as eagerly as he chases the creatures of the land

Spanish Airship
The Torres Quevedo held on the ground by squads of men preparatory to take-off

Ricaldoni Airship
The Italian military dirigible number one, the Ricaldoni

Airship over New York
A large passenger-carrying airship pictured over New York

Baldwin Airship 1906
The BALDWIN - United States military dirigible Number 1

Airship Mail Project
AIR MAIL : a scheme to pick up mail by airship from a moving train is tested in Illinois, but does not seem to have proved practicable

Willows Flight
Pioneer aviator Willows flies his airship number 9 from Cardiff to London

Nulli Secundus Airship
A modified version of the Nulli Secundus, intended for military use

BRITISH BABY AIRSHIP
The British Armys Baby intended for observation and reconnaissance

Tissandier Airship 3
The electric-powered dirigible of Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER flies from Auteuil, near Paris, and qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible airship

Tissandier Airship 2
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIER take off from Auteuil, near Paris, in their electric- powered dirigible which qualifies as the worlds first successful dirigible

Tissandier Airship 1
Gaston and Albert TISSANDIERs first project for a dirigible powered by electricity : a modified version flew two years later

VILLE DE PARIS AIRSHIP
The Ville de Paris. Date: 1908

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