Aviation Collection (#36)

Loading a biplane with passengers and luggage at Croydon Aerodrome, London. Cover of Airways magazine, London, June 1925

Otto Lilienthal, German gliding pioneer & aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders
Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) German gliding pioneer and aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders. He made about 2, 000 flights before being killed

Henri Farman in the Farman biplane, French aviator and aircraft constructor, c1909. From set of cards on aviation published 1910. Chromolithograph

Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, first woman to hold pilots licence, 1909. On 3 Nov 1909 flew Voisin biplane 1, 000 yards. From set of cards on aviation published 1910. Chromolithograph

Autogiro, designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva, 1928
Autogiro (1928), designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva (Cordoniu) 1896-1936. From Le Petit Inventeur, Paris, 1928

SP Langleys steam-powered model plane Aerodrome, c1896. SP Langley, American astronomer and aeronautical pioneer. Langleys steam-powered model plane Aerodrome. In 1896 Aerodrome 5 flew 3/4 mile

Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aeronaut, first recorded flight in Europe, 1906, (1915)
Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), Brazilian aeronaut in his aeroplane of 1906, the machine in which he made first recorded flight in Europe (22 August 1906). Fitted with Antoinette engine

Samuel Franklin Cody, American-born British aviator, flying Cody Biplane c1909. Chromolithograph card of 1910

Henri Farman, French aviator, winning prize for first circular kilometre flight, Paris, Jan 1908
Henri Farman (1874-1958), French aviator and aircraft constructor, in his Voisin biplane winning Archdeacon Deutsch prize for first circular l kilometre flight, Paris, 13 January 1908

Graham White (left) and RT Gates, British pioneer aviators

Graham White, British pioneer aviator, c1910

Daedalus and Icaros fitted with their wings. According to legend, in order to escape from Crete, Daedalus made wings of wax and feathers for himself and his son

Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer, 1901. Artist: George Hum
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer, 1901. Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) made his first flight in the balloon Brasil in 1898, and later that year his second balloon, America

Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Artist: Spy
Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born British inventor and engineer, 1904. Whilst resident in America, Maxim (1840-1916) took out patents for, among other things, gas apparatus and electric lamps

Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, French aviator, 1909. Baroness Delaroche (1886-1919) was the first woman to be granted a pilots licence by the French Aero Club

Wilbur Wrights first flight in Europe at the Hanaudieres racetrack near Le Mans, France, 1908
Wilbur Wrights (American aviator) first flight in Europe, at the Hanaudieres racetrack near Le Mans, France in the Wright Brothers Flyer

Wright Brothers biplane Flier, 1910
Wright Brothers biplane Flier, used fuel injection, Card published 1910

Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator, flying over the cliffs at Dover, 1909
Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator, flying over the cliffs at Dover after crossing the English Channel from Les Boraques near Calais, France, in his monoplane Bleriot XI on 25 July 1909

Henson and Stringfellows 1843 design for steam-powered flying machine, 1843
Henson and Stringfellows 1843 design for steam-powered flying machine. Webbed tail 15.24m, and beneath it a rudder. Steam engine in car drove two set of vanes (pink objecs) 6.09m diameter

First ascent of Mongolfier hot air balloon, 21 November 1783. From chromolithgotraph postcard published c1910

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