Airfield Collection (#35)

Blockade Helpers
1st July 1948: Bristol Hercules powered Handley Page Hastings C1 transport aircraft lined up at the factory airfield at Radlett, Hertfordshire, prior to delivery to RAF Transport Command

Farman Bi-plane
October 1909: A Farman rounds a pylon during the Blackpool Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Glider Launch
July 1910: Aeroplane taking off down the gliding launch track at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Flight
9th May 1911: Gilmours flight from Brooklands to Brighton is seen taking off by spectators. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Farmans Aeroplane
27th April 1910: Crowds surround Grahame-Whites Farman aeroplane at Polesworth while taking part in the London to Manchester flight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bi-plane
28th August 1913: A small crowd gathered round Claude Grahame-Whites five seater bi-plane at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Valkyne I
1910: Side view of Valkyne I aircraft. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Military Aviation At Hendon
Monoplanes at a naval and military aviation review at Hendon Aerodrome, North London, 28th September 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aviation Ground
13th September 1911: General view of the aviation ground at Bristol. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hammond Aeroplane
1909: Hammond aeroplane at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wright Machine
1st August 1909: Paul Tissandiers Wright Biplane at the Reims Aviation Week, with tail number 4 and its launching pylon and rails

The First Air Mail
9th September 1911: The first air mail leaves Hendon on its way to Windsor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bellamy Plane
9th March 1907: Adjustments being made to the Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands, Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bleriot In Flight
5th August 1912: Louis Bleriot (1872-1936) piloting his plane on the return journey from Lowestoft. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Forces Aircraft
28th September 1912: Naval and military aircraft in a line on the airfield at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Before Take Off
5th August 1912: Salmet flying at Southend. A crowd watch the Bleriot monplane prepare for takeoff. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Monoplane In Flight
25th September 1913: The American monoplane flown by W L Brock at the International Air Race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Information Board
August 1910: The information board for the air races at Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aerial Derby
6th June 1914: Louis Noel, the winner at the Aerial Derby at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lanark Hangars
August 1910: The hangars as seen from the grand stand at the Lanark Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Race At Hendon
August 1913: Pilots Birchenough and Carr flying Grahame-White biplanes in the final race at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Athol Aeroplane
2nd April 1910: The Blair Athol aeroplane at Eastchurch. It was designed by Dunne and Cody at the Avro Balloon Factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Machines
9th March 1907: A front view of the Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands
16th April 1910: The Hon Allen Boyle in flight on his Avis monoplane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Failure
19th September 1911: An armoured plane with cantilever wings and a Leon Levavasseur designed Antoinette engine which proved too heavy to fly more than a few yards

Doncaster Flight
19th October 1909: A plane flying past the first pylon in the Leeds Cup, during Doncaster Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hendon Aerodrome
22nd July 1911: Spectators watching a competitor arriving at Hendon during the Daily Mail Round Britain Air Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Race
7th September 1912: The start of the flying race from Dublin to Belfast Leopardstown. (Photo by Desmond Arthur Stanton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gliding
July 1910: An aeroplane gliding at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aerial Derby
September 1913: A view of the motors in the enclosure at the Aerial Derby in Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

In Flight
July 1910: Planes flying over the hangars at a Bournemouth Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Show
18th October 1909: Summers flying around a pylon during Doncaster Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Air Race
August 1910: Blondeau in flight on Farman in the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aerial Derby
20th September 1913: Aerial Derby in Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cody Craft
5th June 1911: Samuel Codys 1910 model in flight at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Oscillator Machine
17th August 1910: An oscillator machine for teaching flying at Brooklands (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Codys Machine
August 1910: The aircraft flown by Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. American-born British aviator Samuel Cody (1862 - 1913)

Shorts Shamrock
1st April 1919: The Short Shamrock bi-plane which had to withdraw from the Daily Mail Transatlantic Competition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bellamy Plane
9th March 1907: Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands airfield at Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Brooklands Plane
20th September 1910: McFie bi-plane at Brooklands Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Channel Flight
21st May 1914: Aviator Princess Ludwig of Lowenstein-Wertheim in the skies above Hendon, during her flight across the English Channel. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Codys No 14
August 1910: The aircraft flown by American aviator Commander Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Hampden
June 1938: A Handley Page bomber, the Hampden, on the airfield at Radlett, Hertfordshire. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

RAF Flamingo
January 1940: An RAF De Havilland Flamingo. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ready For The Off
circa 1920: Hot air balloons about to take off. The name Gordon Bennett, a wealthy American journalist who was a sponsor of ballooning, is clearly displayed on two of them. (Photo by M)

R100 Mooring
21st May 1930: A mooring mast near St Hubert, Montreal to which the R 100 will be moored on completion of her transatlantic trip. (Photo by H. H. Humphries/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schneider Entrant
19th August 1929: A Gloster Napier 6, one of the aircraft with which Britain hopes to retain the 1929 Schneider Trophy, at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Viper Autogiro
20th October 1927: A British C 8D Viper Autogiro at Hamble airfield in Hampshire. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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