
Early Aviation – Alberto Santos-Dumont dirigible number 7, Winner of Prize Henry Deutsch, Collection Breuillard. / src: eBay
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Early Aviation – Alberto Santos-Dumont dirigible number 7, Winner of Prize Henry Deutsch, Collection Breuillard. / src: eBay

Leslie Jones :: Travelair biplane piloted by Bob Goldberg of Cambridge and actress Maude Vesta nearly got killed when the plane turned turtle in muddy swamp.
East Boston Airport, 31 May 1928 / src: lesliejonesphotography.com
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Unidentified photographer (Russian ?) :: Balloon. “Andrew Pilstrema” in flight, 1898. / src: Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow via luminous-lint

Louis Paulhan flying near a gas-filled balloon in his Henry Farman biplane, during his record-breaking flight (4600 ft.) at Dominguez Field, January 12, 1910. Paulhan is sitting at the center of the front wings in this primitive biplane. His biplane passes a nearby balloon with one person piloting it. The advertisement painted on the balloon reads: “All in the Examiner”.

Wright Brothers glider in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1911 / source: topdesignmag
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Emmanuil Evzerikhin :: Paratroopers: Preparations to an Air Force Parade in Tushino for the celebration of the All-Union Day of Soviet Aviation, August 1939-1940 / source: nailya alexander gallery

Hanging on the telephone wires. / source: C&T Auctions via The Telegraph

Wright Brothers, with Orville in the ‘Cockpit’
“This flyer, seen at Kitty Hawk in 1901, was unsuccessful as a manned kite but was used as a glider.”, 1901 / src: Swann Galleries

Newly-uncovered photos from First World War catalogue multitude of bizarre collisions before ‘magnificent men’ mastered skills of flying. / source: The Telegraph

Orville Wright :: The pictures depict the brothers’ No. 2 glider, their
subsequent heavier-than-air craft flying at Sims Field (including the
Model R) and close ups of machinery. Silver prints, 1901-1928. / src: Swann Galleries