Toy airplanes on sidewalk, undated. / via
Tag: biplane
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”.
Voula Th. Papaioannou :: Aerial spraying, Crete, 1945-1947 / src: Benaki Museum
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Hanging on the telephone wires. / source: C&T Auctions via The Telegraph
Newly-uncovered photos from First World War catalogue multitude of bizarre collisions before ‘magnificent men’ mastered skills of flying. / source: The Telegraph
Photographs document the Wright brothers’ advances in early flight. The brothers made 105 flights on the Flyer II in 1904, some as long as five minutes. / source: The Telegraph
On October 24, 1911, a press photographer for NY Times
captured Orville Wright in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil
Hills, North Carolina. “Glider in the Air Nearly 10 Minutes,” read the
headline the next day. / source: New York Times
Wesley May, known as “Daredevil”, accomplished the feat of passing from one plane to another in flight.
Anonymous photographer, ca. 1920. Gelatin-silver bromide. / src: Lumière des Roses
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