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Vintage images of early aircraft, including biplanes and seaplanes, highlighting aviation history with classic designs and historic backdrops.

monoplano caproni, 1910-1920
monoplano caproni, 1910-1920
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Aerodrome Flying Machine by Samuel Pierpont Langley, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century model
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09/30/1919. An Extraordinary Flight. 1.-the airplane in which the French aviator Poulet attempts to make the flight from Paris to Melbourne. 2.-Poulet (A) and his mechanic Benoist (B) Moments before taking flight.
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Artwork: "First American-built Planes See Action". Artist: John McCoy, US Air Force Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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Chinese aviators.
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Wonderful fantasy card depicting British soldiers flying over the distinctive skyline and rooftops of Constantinople in a very early aeroplane (seemingly held together by string and luck)     Date: circa 1905
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Old airplane vector image
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Hiram Maxim's first flying  machine - a monster which  became less ungainly in  subsequent models       Date: 1889
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' Southern Cross ' refuelling, by Leslie Adkin.
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Wilbur Wright runs alongside as Orville pilots the aircraft just as it lifts from the wooden track at Kitty Hawk beach. It was the first powered controlled flight in a heavier-than-air airplane. December 17 1903 LC-DIG-ppprs-00626
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Aircraft Waco ZQC-6 Mekas Värn, at F 19 . Aircraft Waco ZQC-6 Mekas on Värn, at F 19, Swedish Voluntigflottiljen in Finland. Three military at the aircraft engine. .Ur f 19 collection.
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Bleriot XI "La Manche", Europe's big vintage aeroplane meeting on the Hahnweide, Kirchheim-Teck, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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Hidroavión de reconocimiento y asalto alemán Arado AR-196 que se proyectó como el sucesor del Heinkel He 50.
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British Arctic Air Route Expedition: Ahrenberg flying over sledges of the returning relief party. Courtauld waving. July 10, 1931. (Photo by Mr. F. S. Chapman, British Arctic Air Route Expedition Photograph).
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Testing aeroplane
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AVION FARMAN F6O GOLIATH - 1919 - DETALLE DE UN SELLO.
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The Wright Brothers 'machine' the plane in which they made the first powered controlled flight in a heavier-than-air airplane on December 17 1903. LC-DIG-ppprs-00615
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1910s 1911 WRIGHT BROTHERS FLYING A GLIDER AND SPECTATORS ON OCEAN BEACH KILL DEVIL HILLS KITTY HAWK NORTH CAROLINA USA
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2015.14.2.. Photograph Album: WWII Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, Birmingham 1940-46. Manufacturers: Vickers Armstrong.  From album containing approximately 50 black and white photographs. Including Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, and other factories across the country, during the Second World War
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Airplane of Louis Blériot in flight; L'aéroplane <Blériot> and square full. .
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Junkers W 33 L transport plane, 1920s, (1932).  Creator: Unknown.
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William Henson's (1805-1888) 'Aerial Steam Carriage' of 1843. Henson and his partner Stringfellow managed to get a model of this steam powered flying machine airborne. From set of cards on aviation published 1910.
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Description: Aircraft of Fiji Airways at Taveuni Airport. Location: Suva, Taveuni, Fiji fiji, plane, aeroplane, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens
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USSR - 1977: shows Aviation Emblem and R-5 biplane, 1929 USSR - CIRCA 1977: A stamp printed by USSR shows Aviation Emblem and R-5 biplane, 1929, series, circa 1977 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 3992044
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The first flight in Thailand, 1911
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Aviation, 1910: The R.E.P. Monoplane, 1909.
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First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - digital file from original | Library of Congress
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Kath. Stinson , 5/13/16
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 Mrs Harry Bonny, Australian  aviator, and her De Havilland Gipsy Moth
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USA, Minnesota, Duluth, Ice Auto ""Demon 3D"", 1913
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Dayton, Ohio Welcomes the Wright Brothers, Commercial Aviation
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USSR - 1977: shows Aviation Emblem and R-3 ANT-3 biplane, 1925 USSR - CIRCA 1977: A stamp printed by USSR shows Aviation Emblem and R-3 ANT-3 biplane, 1925, series, circa 1977 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 3992046
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Cover of An Album of International Air Liners, for cigarette cards issued by John Player &amp; Sons, featuring a GA - de Havilland aircraft flying over palm trees.      Date: 1936
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USSR - CIRCA 1969: A stamp printed by USSR shows Soviet Biplane Po-2 U-2, circa 1969 USSR - CIRCA 1969: A stamp printed by USSR shows Soviet Biplane Po-2 U-2, series, circa 1969 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 3417028
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CUBA - 1977: shows Flying boat and international airmail service 1st flight cachet, series International Airmail Service, 50th Anniversary CUBA - CIRCA 1977: A stamp printed in Cuba shows Flying boat and international airmail service 1st flight cachet, series International Airmail Service, 50th Anniversary, circa 1977 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 4730130
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