World Record Collection (page 8)

Charity Aircraft Pull. A British Airways Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet is pulled along the tarmac tug-of-war style at London Heathrow Airport, 11th May 1988

Signor Steppani breaks world long distance record for flying boats. October 1934

Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart MacLaren and his daughter standing in the Vickers Vulture amphibius bi-plane ( G-EBH0 ) at Carshot Spit, an RAF Seaplane Base near Southampton, Hampshire

Man in red shorts, white vest and trainers leaping forwards with legs stretched in front of him and arms behind his back, side view

The Italian round - the - world flight. Signor Hemmer ( left ) and Mr R Larsen, who are accompanying Signor Antonio Locatelli the Italian aviator

V-12 helicopter C017 / 7576
V-12 helicopter. The Russian built Mil V-12 is the worlds largest helicopter. The fuselage was over 28 metres in length and 4.4 metres in width and height

USSR-1 high-altitude balloon, 1933
USSR-1 high-altitude balloon, after take-off. This Soviet balloon set a world record altitude in October 1933, reaching the stratosphere and a height of 18, 514 metres

Mikhail Gromov, Soviet transpolar pilot
Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov (1899-1985), Soviet pilot, wearing aviation clothing for the July 1937 transpolar flight across the North Pole. Gromov was one of three pilots on this pioneering flight

Ilyushin and Kokkinaki, aviation pioneers
Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (left, 1894-1977), Soviet aviation engineer, and Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (right, 1904-1985), Soviet test pilot

Moon exhibition model, Germany
Moon exhibition model. This model of the Moon, the worlds largest Moon globe, is a display inside the defunct gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany

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