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Vintage Aircraft Photography

Historic images of vintage aircraft in flight and on the ground, illustrating early aviation technology and designs.

Vintage photograph. Low angle view of two people working on a wing of an airplane, New York International Airport, New York City, New York, USA

Hughes Helicopter Picks up Record Load -- An Air Force XH-17 helicopter built by Hughes Aircraft company here completes its test program by picking up an Air Force trailer van weighing 7800 pounds. Hughes engineers believe it is the largest and heaviest load ever lifted by helicopter. The XH-17 is regarded as the world's biggest helicopter. December 14, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

School and sports aircraft. Type Junkers Junior.

Curtis P-40 over Kiska. Aleutians.

R.M.A Aotearoa II the first of the new Teal Solent flying boats alighting after one of her initial test flights at Belfast. January 01, 1949. (Photo by T.E.A.L.).

Disease Control - Oregon. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Photograph of a Hydrofoil, a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water. Dated 20th Century

07/31/1923. Rhoen (Germany) Motorless Airplane competition. Geheimsat plane -.

Douglas C-47 "Dream Girl". Palawan, P.I. 22 July 1945.

09/01/1936. Gasoline-powered machines Moving Goods To Madrid.

Fixed Wing Commercial Aviat Airplanes Airlines Convair 440 radial engine piston engine propeller detail

Artwork: "Flight Instrument Training" Artist: Alan E. Cober. Country: Unknown

Security guards guarding an armored truck near an aircraft, 1928

Test pilot Paul King in a fur lined leather flying suit and oxygen mask before take off, Oct. 17, 1925. He will fly the NACA Vought VE-7,from Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NACA, was a Federal agency established in 1915, and was the predecessor of NASA. (BSLOC_2015_14_195)

Orville Wright Flying Over Huffman Prairie

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Aircraft, landscapes. undated

Boeing NC10225 Monomail Cargo Airplane

A B-47 Stratojet aircraft, its landing gear gone, sits on blocks at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center. More than 2,500 aircraft from all services are stored at the center, only a small percentage of the aircraft are scrapped. Most of the a. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War Cody aircraft mark IC (Cathedral - so named because of its size and the size of the hangar it required and the katahedral (lower at the wing tips) arrangement of the wings) in flight. The most important change made with this mark was moving the pilots seat to in front of the engine. The aircraft was altered several more times, here the additional elevators at the side of the central one (which has now been split in two down the centre, the rudder is in the original position above the elevator and a tail skid has been added. 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 remembered that because of this constant evolution of his aircraft Cody would probably not have classified them in

LZ 18 Zeppelin - Naval Airship L2 - Crashing to ground with the loss of 27 lives. The largest zeppelin ever built at 160 metres long. Launched September 9th 1913, only to crash on 17th October of the same year. Date: 1913

Photograph showing a German V-1 'Flying Bomb' rocket in flight over Southern England, 1944. Flames can be seen streaking from the exhaust of the machine. Date: 1944

Dirigi-plane model

Transparency - Count Jacques de Lesseps and his Schreck biplane G-CAJN over Quebec City, QC, about 1910

Airport in Warsaw. Aircraft standing on the airport plate; Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Capt P.G. Taylor with his Ceremonial Gull plane Polaris. August 05, 1935.

Image of people at the Vleutensebrug over the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in Utrecht who, in the context of the Chowhound Operation, shed food packages above the site at the Lowweide (Stapelerrein of the Dutch Railways).

Vintage Photograph. A Boeing P 47 strata jet taking off with the aid of 18 rocket units

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,Transportation War

Poll photo collection. View from the cockpit of a KLM plane. 1948. America

This is the Plane Which Briggs Piloted on first flight between Melbourne and Perth in 1920 for C. J. de Garis, Who was greeted on arrival by Premier J. Scadden of Western Australia. January 13, 1954.

Corporal Luva Hetty Amade in the cockpit of a glider.

Steel Tube Carriage for M2-F1

Hubert Latham on his monoplane 13 beating the distance record covering more than 154 kilometers, August 26, 1909, photo from L'Illustration, No 3470, August 28, 1909.

Vintage photograph. Ice boating on Greenwood Lake, New Jersey

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British Flying Boat Soars Over Manhattan -- Before the British Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia alighted at Port Washington today to complete the first westward trans-Atlantic voyage of a commercial company's seaplane, the big ship circled lazily over Manhattan. The Caledonia is shown just before the last stage of the trans-ocean journey, from Montreal, was completed. July 9, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).;British Flying Boat Soars Over Manhattan -- Before the British Imperial Ai

R.A.F. activities. Plane returning to home in Ramleh, Ramleh Aerodrome. 1934, Israel, Ramlah

Paris, France: July 12, 1938 The scene at Le Bourget airport at dawn as Howard Hughes and crew prepares to take off for Moscow on the next stage of their around the world flight.

Method of refuelling aircraft devised by Sir Alan Cobham, c1936 (c1937). Artist: Unknown.

Operation Deep Freeze I - Rescue Otter Plane Delivered by Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind. Coast Guardsmen pull a Navy Otter float-aid plane clear of the icebreaker Eastwind's flight deck for take-off in search of an Otter with seven Navy men missing on a flight to Marie Byrd Land. The Eastwind delivered the Otter 400 miles to Little America McMurdo Sound. Lowering the plane by crane to a level spot on the Great Ross Ice Barrier the crew worked in sub-zero temperature to ready the plane for hurried take-off. Getting the plane onto the ice shelf was not without incident. Buffeted by winds the ship raked its sides against the overhanging edges of the ice barrier, causing the Otter's wing tip to be shorn off. Men hurriedly repaired the damaged wing with a jury rig wooden tip. This same Otter on February 9, 1956, found the seven tired cold men missing since February 3rd, 125 miles northeast of Little America Base 5 walking towards Okuma Bay from an area of Rockefeller Plateau where they ha

Artwork: "Two Generations of B-1's (1918-1983)" Artist: Karl Neumann. Country: Unknown

The American aircraft carrier Lexington with aircrafts ready to take off, Panama, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, year LVIII, n 12, March 22, 1931.

Motor race. 1922.

Anefo photo collection. Hovercraft va 2 demonstrates. On the water in theesslincxhaven. April 17, 1963

Klemm L 26 IIIa plane, 1932. Creator: Unknown.

CANON ARMSTRONG DE 30 CENTIMETROS MONTADO EN LA BATERIA DE LA SOLEDAD (CADIZ). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

One of the artist's most recent models is a rocket-propelled helicopter with a 4-blade rotor driven by two loz motors. December 15, 1954.

DF-SC-85-01770. Country: Unknown

One and Only. Pictured under the radar dome of a Coast Guard plane is the 9-lens wonder camera of the Coast and Geodetic Survey - the only one of its kind in the world. Eight to ten months of each year the U.S. Coast Guard and the Coast and Geodetic Survey "team up" on map-making operations. The Coast Guard plane especially modified for this activity carries the big camera (camera and equipment weigh 750 pounds) clamped to a permanent mount installed for the purpose. The pilot must maintain a constant altitude - 13,750 feet is usual "shooting height" - while the camera, operated by two members of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, photographs the terrain below. The "pictures" are about 3-foot square and cover a ground area of about 1200 square miles. From these photos, details are transferred to maps for basic defense and for navigation charts. There's a reason for that sign "hands off" estimated replacement value of this wonder camera is $100,000!.

1950S Man Fishing Off Front Of Seaplane Hydroplane Aircraft Turquoise Blue Green Water Lighthouse Brick Building Horizon

Parts of the tripartite mine hunter hr.ms. Haarlem.

Preparing to Haul Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) PB2Y Coronado Seaplane #02745 onto Ramp at Naval Amphibious Base (NAB) #807. N3-419.. 1944-01-01T00:00:00.

Anefo photo collection. Plane, landed with an abdominal landing. February 2, 1958

Madrid, March 1936. The aviator Lorenzo Richi upon arriving in Barajas after making the flight to Spanish Guinea.

Anefo photo collection. Aviation. Airplanes. September 3, 1939

Zeppelin airship shot down by Leefe Robinson at Cuffley near London, England September 1916. Illustration published c1920.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. wreck Martin Mariner Merauke. August 1957. Merauke, Guinea

Arrival of Captain Lindbergh the lone Atlantic Flier, at Croydon Aerodrome.The great welcome given to Lindbergh on his arrival, flying over the crowd. July 06, 1927. (Photo by Topical Press Agency).

US Navy Blimp at Moffett Field. ca. 1943, California, USA, 376. GIANT HANGAR, U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION, MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF.

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. A cessa of the mission airline association has been greatly interested in a number of Moekokos and Ohenna's caught airport at Wamena (Baliem). The m.a.f. (Missionary Aviation Fellowship) is an association that was founded by American War Pilotes after the war to perform all flights for mission posts in the mountain countries at no extra costs. For a fee of the self-fee, all mission posts of the aircraft (3 Cessna's and 1 Piper Pacer in Ned. New Guinea) can use. On the photo: a busy day in Tion: Cessna's arrive at the airport at the same time. September 1958. New Guinea

A photo of model airplane builders James B. Newman and Robert L. McDonald preparing for a flight with models of the M2-F2 and a Mothership”. In 1968 a test flight was made on the Rosamond dry lakebed, Rosamond, California.The original idea of lifting bodies was conceived about 1957 by Dr. Alfred J. Eggers, Jr., then the assistant director for Research and Development Analysis and Planning at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. Nose cone studies led to the design known as the M-2, a modified half-cone, rounded on the bottom and flat on top, with a blunt, rounded nose and twin tail fins.To gather flight data on this configuration, models were found to be an effective method. A special twin-engined, 14-foot model mothership” was used for carrying the M2-F2 model to altitude and a launch, much as was being done with the B-52 for the full-scale lifting bodies. Jim (on the left) will fly the mothership” and Bob will

Downed Japanese Plane Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA December 7, 1941

Vintage photograph. Plane burning

Latham

The Messerschmitt ME 109F, Germany's new three-gun, single-seater fighter and fast light bomber plane during the Second World War. Date: 1941

Chairman Mao is at Yenan Airport. (1945). Mao Zedong (1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death

A Fairchild C-82 Packet is purposely destroyed by researchers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory. In response to an escalating number of transport aircraft crashes in the mid-1940s, the NACA researchers undertook a decade-long investigation into a number of issues surrounding low-altitude aircraft crashes. The tests were conducted at the Ravenna Arsenal, approximately 60 miles south of the Lewis laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio. The aircraft were excess military transports from World War II. The aircraft was guided down the runway at speeds of 80 to 105 miles per hour. It came into contact with poles which tore open the 1500-gallon fuel tanks in the wings before reaching the barriers at the end of the runway. Fuel poured from the tanks and supply lines, resulting in the spread of both liquid fuel and a large cloud of spray. Solomon Weiss developed a method of dying the fuel red to improve its visibility during the crashes. This red

The Zeppelin VII airship, photo from L'Illustration, No 3513, June 25, 1910.

Illustration showing Donald Campbell (1921-1967) driving 'Bluebird' across Lake Eyre, Southern Australia, during his successful attempt on the world land speed record in July 1964. Date: 25/07/1964

Image of a shot in Spitfire near the Zelegebetrieb that was located on the site of Houthandel Jongeneel (Cartesiusweg 127) in Utrecht.N.B. In the Zelegebetrieb, the shot or accidental planes were dismantled and shifted.

North American F-100 Airplane (NACA 709), with Pilot George Cooper

1930s PASSENGERS BOARDING AMERICAN AIRLINES CONDOR BIPLANE AIRPLANE FOR COMMERCIAL FLIGHT FROM NEWARK NEW JERSEY USA AIRPORT

Anefo photo collection. Oosterscheldedam presence guests Delta completed; Overview opening. October 4, 1986

Outstanding flying achievements: a pictorial record of the recent advances in speed, distance, height and endurance. Date: circa 1930s

Non-tipping safety boat for children

Anefo photo collection. Artist Marte Rolling Starfighter Royal Netherlands Air Force garden Weesp. Marte Rolling plane staircase. August 14, 1989. Noord-Holland, Weesp

Anefo photo collection. Visit Queen Juliana, PR. Bernhard, PR. Beatrix PR. Claus Ethiopia: visit city Jima; Airport plane. January 31, 1969. Ethiopia

Soviet Stratosphere Balloonists Smash Altitude Record -- Commander George A. Prokofiev bidding "goodbye" from the gondola before beginning the ascent.A crew Soviet stratosphere balloonists led by Commander George A. Prokofiev of the Red Army set up a new altitude record aboard the stratosphere balloon U.S.S.R. in flight which took place over Moscow. They reached a height of 11½ miles as compared with Professor Piccard's ten miles, and a great amount of scientific data concerning conditions in the upper atmosphere was collected. October 3, 1933.

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Zeppelin airship caught in searchlights during a bombing raid over England, 1916. On night of 2-3 September London was bombed. Illustration published c1920.

Lydda Air Port. Palestine Airways plane close-up, showing name. Photo shows airplane with 'Palestine Airways Limited' written in Arabic, English and Hebrew. 1934, Israel, Lod

Avión de caza North American Mustang NA-73, utilizado por la Royal Air Force británica y otros países.

Bonneville Salt Flats, 'World's fastest speedway.' Utah , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Trans Australian Airline foreman porter at Mascot, Hugh Jones, holds one of eight quokkas by its tail after their arrival in Sydney from Perth yesterday. The little marsupials are on their way from Rottnest Island, near Fremantle, to the National Zoological Park, Washington. However, because an American plane was unable to load them they remained in T.A.A.'s over-seas bond at Kingsford Smith Airport and airline officers were faced with finding a weekend home for them. November 16, 1956. (Photo by Winton Irving).

Vintage Photograph. Plane flying across sunset.

Whale hunting skin boats, or "umiaks," at Whale Festival. Alaska Task Force Photographs

The Martin PBM 40,000 lb Navy Patrol Bomber - The US Navy's "New Aerial Sentries of the Sea" during World War Two. This 'Battleship of the Air' could patrol in 2 1/2 hours a distance which would require a Destroyer 24 hours to cover. Date: 1942

John Hughes, left, husband of Secretary Gale Norton, with Dale Norton, the Secretary's father and a long-time aircraft executive with Learjet Corporation and predecessors, posing at exhibit while accompanying the Secretary on visit to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina for tours, events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial

ATS at the Wheel, Wartime Women

A right side view of a parked Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed-J aircraft. Country: Unknown

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