Aerostat Collection

R101 at Cardington EPW029993
R101 at Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1929. Built 1926-30 at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, the final test flight was 1st October 1930

Balloon over Stonehenge N060085
STONEHENGE. Wiltshire. Detail of the stones with a hot air balloon. This balloon flight over Stonehenge commemorated one hundred years of aerial photography, 1906-2006

Graf Zeppelin EPW038817
The Graf Zeppelin moored at Hanworth Aerodrome, London Air Park in July 1932. This was her third and final visit to the UK after a flight over London in 1930

Ballooning CVS01_01_042
Tales of balloon flight. Hand-coloured engraving of two men in a balloon flying over London. This engraving is by William Lionel Wyllie

Lodge Hill Battery N060478
LODGE HILL BATTERY, Chatham, Kent. Reconstruction drawing of the First World War a battery firing at German zeppelin, by Peter Dunn (English Heritage Graphics Team)

Ballooning CVS01_01_038
Tales of balloon flight. Hand-coloured engraving showing French balloonist Jules Duroufs gas balloon Le Neptune exploding during a tethered flight in 1860. Durouf survived the accident

Amazing flying machines CVS01_01_012
Amazing flying machines. Hand-coloured engraving of the Minerva balloon, designed by Etienne-Gaspard Robert in 1804. The original slide is damaged but this image has been repaired

Ballooning CVS01_01_034
Tales of balloon flight. Hand-coloured engraving showing the bodies of Joseph Croce-Spinelli and Theodore Sivel being carried from the wreckage of their balloon

Graf Zeppelin AFL03_aerofilms_f290
LZ127 Graf Zeppelin in flight above dark clouds. The Graf Zeppelin was in commercial operation as a transcontinental airship between 1928 and 1937. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

Dirigible and aircraft AFL03_aerofilms_b2308
Dirigible and BE2 aircraft, pre-war, no date or location. This small unidentified airship is probably a Royal Navy submarine spotter

Ballooning CVS01_01_046
Tales of balloon flight. A hand-coloured view showing a balloon in flight, with three figures in the basket. From the Cecil Victor Shadbolt collection of lantern slides dating from 1882-1892

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