Early Aviation History

Historic aircraft from the early 20th century, featuring biplanes and early aviation pioneers engaged in test flights and preparations.

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transport/transportation aviaton aircraft airliner Germany 1930s 30s 20th century,
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Aviation in Britain Before the First World War Cody aircraft mark IB lying nose down on the ground with the rudder sticking into the air and being looked at by several soldiers. Cody escaped from this crash unhurt apart from a cut on his face. It was caused by the front elevator and rudder spars snapping due to excessive force being placed on them when Cody attempted to make a turn in the aircraft. This version of the mark IB does not have the additional elevators fitted next to the main central elevator instead balancing planes have been added between the wings on the rear outer struts. It is still fitted with the rear undercarriage wheel as opposed to the skid used in later marks. Particularly with his earlier aircraft Cody made constant adjustments to the arrangement of the flying surfaces, often after crashes, in order to obtain better performance and handling. These changes mean that identifying specific sub-marks of Cody aircraft can at times be very difficult, it should also be
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H. Broadbent. May 10, 1937
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09/30/1936. Red plane in Huecas (Toledo).
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Portrait of adolphe pégoud in his plane; Pegoud Aviator Acrobate Aérien. .
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12/31/1906. Santos Dumont's new hydrofoil, making its first experiences on the Seine.
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In flight , Airplanes, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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monoplano trimotore, 1930
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Arsene Olivier's 'Avisol' - an airship with wings - seeks to combine the lift of the aeroplane's wings with that of the airship's body. Date: circa 1884
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Plane that landed in Doberdob lake .
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Men grouped in front of a Caproni Ca. 3 airplane. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)
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Aviation in Britain Before the First World War A good side view of the Cody aircraft mark III. It is outside the shed on Laffan's Plain with a group of observers both civilian and military, men and women including a small child in her fathers arms. Cody built this aircraft for the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain race for which there was a GBP10,000 first prize. The mark III was smaller and lighter than Cody's previous aircraft with this compensating for the relatively low power output of the Green engine. It followed a similar design and was fitted with twin rear rudders. There were 32 entrants for the race from Britain and Europe with 21 actually starting the race. Cody was the only pilot / designer / constructor in the race with many of the other entrants being internationally known, professional pilots backed up by factory teams of mechanics, engineers, riggers and the like. The circular route was around 1000 miles in length beginning on the 22nd July 1911 at Brookland's with pilots
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Sir Herbert Samuel's second visit to Transjordan, etc. Britishers, Bedouins and Circassians with airplane. 1921, Jordan
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Paris, May 1911. The aviator Luís Émile Train poses next to his aircraft. At the beginning of the "Raid" Paris - Madrid had an accident that ended the life of the French Minister of War, General Berteaux.
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DF-SC-86-05748. Country: Unknown
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Lucy Burns at Seattle
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Treated Timber Bridge on Buffalo-Casper Road. Original caption: Buffalo-Casper Road. Gravel surfaced. View of timber treated bridge at Sta. 230+19. April 1928. State: Wyoming. Place: Johnson.
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Passengers for London board Handley-Page 'Horatius' of Imperial Airways, at Le Bourget Paris Date: 1934
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""Wind wagon""
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Illustration depicting Mrs Victor Bruce and her plane Windhover. Mrs Victor Bruce (1895-1990) a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer, aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later successful businesswoman. Dated 20th Century
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G.M. Heckscher's Curtiss Flying Boat
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Santos-Dumont biplane 14bis, used as publicity by the Cornish town of Lostwithiel - 'the air here is excellent !' Date: 1906
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Portrait of Adolphe Pégoud in his plane, A. Wyland, c. 1910 - c. 1913 photomechanical print France paper aircraft, aeroplane. pilot
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Wilbur Wright et Les Debuts de L'Aviation. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Pilot and Airplane. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)
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Steve Amos. Damage - boat, very large , Accidents, Boats. Leon Abdalian Collection
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Steve Amos. Damage - boat, very large , Accidents, Boats. Leon Abdalian Collection
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Portrait of Henri Farman (1874-1958), French aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, posing in front of the Voisin biplane, France, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3378, November 23, 1907.
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Junkers F 13w medical plane, c1919, (1932). Creator: Unknown.
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Santos-Dumont 14-bis biplane winning the Archdeacon award on the Bagatelle field, October 23, 1906, France, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3322, October 27, 1906.
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Admiral Richard E Byrd, American aviator, and his Curtiss Wright biplane in which he flew to the Poles Date: 1888 - 1957
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Louis Blériot plane in flight, LL, c. 1908 - Before 1909 photomechanical print paper collotype aircraft, aeroplane. meadow, pasture
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Group portrait group portrait. First surgery group on F 3 ore. Staff in front of an airplane at hangar.
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Over the Nile & the Pyramids in a Plane, Aviation
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Landing of a Zeppelin in Luneville, France Date: 3rd April 1913
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Artwork: "DH-4 Flying the Mail in the 1920s". Artist: John McCoy. US Air Force Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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Anefo photo collection. Miss Australia with plane model in Madurodam. April 29, 1966. The Hague, South Holland
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Portraits of Wilbur (left) and Orville (right) Wright and pictures of their planes.
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The technology in the bakery trade apparently has no limits. The complicated construction of the Dornier Vliegboot, the DO X, which carries dozens of passengers safely through the air, apparently did not object to the Bakker, to simulate its whole and true to nature. A neat piece of craftsmanship!
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Flight week/ Utrecht/ 24-25-26-27-28 Aug. 1910/ Jan Olieslaegers/ Entrée F 1,- and f 0.50