Aviators Collection

The Upside Down Dinner given by the Hendon Aviators to Bentfield Hucks and Gustav Hamel at the Royal Automobile Club on 16 January 1914

Amy Johnson
Pilot Amy Johnson 1936

Santos-Dumont / Sem
ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT Brazilian aviation pioneer in France Date: 1873 - 1932

Cabral and Coutinho fly from Portugal to Brazil
Gabo Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral - Portuguese aviators who flew from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1922 in a Fairey IIIB Float plane- the first time this feat was achieved

Page from The Bystander, 18th April 1928, featuring an article called Flying for Women by Lady (Abe) Bailey, who is pictured top left as the champion woman aviator who flies a D.H. Moth

Beryl Markham (1902 1986), British-born Kenyan author, aviator, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. Photographed here, just after flying from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island

The Wright Flyer I makes its first flight of 120 feet in 12 seconds, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 10
KW330002 The Wright Flyer I makes its first flight of 120 feet in 12 seconds, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 10.35am, 17 December 1903 (b/w photo) by Daniels, John T

First flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10. 35am December 17th 1903 (b / w photo)
1273724 First flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10.35am December 17th 1903 (b/w photo) by Daniels, John T

Pioneers of Italian aviation: The gold medal donated by the 'Gazzetta dello Sport' for national subscription to
5313823 Pioneers of Italian aviation: The gold medal donated by the 'Gazzetta dello Sport' for national subscription to the official aviators participating in the Libyan war (1911-1912)

Pioneers of Italian aviation: The gold medal donated by the 'Societa Aviazione Torino' to the aviators
5313824 Pioneers of Italian aviation: The gold medal donated by the 'Societa Aviazione Torino' to the aviators volunteers 'Garibaldini del cielo'

Rest house for marine aviators, Miami, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Rest house for marine aviators, Miami, A rest house for aviators at the Marine Flying Field, Miami, Florida during World War I.

Machine gun school, 12 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Machine gun school, 12 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). Men becoming more familiar with the delicate mechanism of the automatic rifle as part of their aviation training.

Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917.

Aviators, Mineola, between 1917 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Aviators, Mineola, between 1917 and 1918. Aviation training school at Mineola Air Station, Long Island, New York during World War I.

Victor Chapman, Elliott Cowdin, Wm. Thaw, Norman Prince, K. Rockwell, Bert Hall, Lieut..., c1915
Victor Chapman, Elliott Cowdin, William Thaw, Norman Prince, Kiffin Rockwell, Bert Hall, Lieutenant Delnage, J.R. McConnell, Captain Thenault, c1915

Aviators decorated with iron cross: Saenger, Baas, Hahn, Ingold, Hug..., between c1910 and c1915
Aviators decorated with iron cross: Saenger, Baas, Hahn, Ingold, Hug, Bremer, Reichert, between c1910 and c1915. Lieutenant Saenger, Lieutenant Baas, Lieutenant Hahn, Pilot Ingold, Lieutenant Hug

Richardson Tandem Biplane Hydroplane on Potomac, April, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Richardson Tandem Biplane Hydroplane on Potomac, April, 1916. George A. Gray at Controls, at Left And Right are Richardson Brothers who built the plane; 2nd from Left is their uncle

Enlèvement d'une fille de l'air, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Enlevement d'une fille de l'air, 19th century. Ballooning scene - flying woman asks to be allowed into the basket: Monsieur Godard I'm frozen...Godard

Aviateurs; L'enseigne de vaisseau Jean Roulier donnant ses derniers ordres, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aviateurs; L'enseigne de vaisseau Jean Roulier donnant ses derniers ordres, le matin du 15 aout, avant de partir pour le bombardement de Trieste, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Aviateurs; Une visite de Gabriele d'Annunzio aux aviateurs francais de Venise, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aviateurs; Une visite de Gabriele d'Annunzio aux aviateurs francais de Venise: le poete, ayant a sa droite le consul de France, est entoure des pilotes de l'escadrille de chasse de Nieuport

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Biplane 2 Engines, with Floats, Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commission - Curtiss Biplane 2 Engines, with Floats, Exhibited at S.O.B. [Senate Office Building?], 1917

Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Anthony Jannus - The Plane with Rufus R... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Anthony Jannus, Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Jannus - The Plane with Rufus R. Bermann, Wireless Operator, And Fred Aubert, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912
Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are generally credited with inventing, building

Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Wright Biplane, Type B... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Wright Biplane, Type B; Lt. Harry Graham, 1912. [Early test flights in Maryland. Lieutenant Graham flying Wright Brothers aircraft]

Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control, At College Park Army Flying Field, Lt. Milling, right, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Lt. H. Geiger, Lt. T. Dew. Milling, 1912. [Early aviation pioneers, Maryland, USA

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909 - First Army Flights, 1909 July. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909 - First Army Flights, 1909 July. [The Wright brothers conducted test flights at Fort Myer after the U.S

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909. First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois [sic], 1909 July. [The Wright brothers conducted test flights at Fort Myer after the U.S

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Wilbur And Orville Wright... Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Wilbur And Orville Wright, Charlie Taylor; Putting Plane On Launching Rail

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Hangar, Orville Wright, Right, 1909 July. [The Wright brothers conducted test flights at Fort Myer after the U.S

S. F. Cody, right, as a ?strike-breaker?, arrived at Bro?
S.F. Cody, right, as a ?strike-breaker?, arrived at Brooklands from Aldershot, drinking the health of the aviators on strike circa 1911

England, Kent, Dover, Statue of Charles Stewart Rolls, The First Man to Cross the English Channel and Return in a Single Flight

Shell Special Petrol - Shell Ltd. Date: 1933

Samuel Cody assorted memorabilia
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely important Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate No.9, 1910, issued to S. F

Motoring and Aviation Record Breakers
Sir Henry Tim Birkin (1896-1933) and Dorothy Paget (1905-1960) showing off their Bentley. And James Allan Jim Mollison (1905-1959)

Jim Mollison and Kangeroo
Scottish aviator James Allan Jim Mollison (1905-1959) was greeted by a kangaroo in Croydon, at the end of his record breaking flight from Australia to England

Miss F. J. Crossley, Aviatrix
Miss F. J. Crossley, a female aviator who had recently competed in an air race around England. Date: 1931

Parade for Harold Gatty and Wiley Post
A parade along Broadway for navigator Harold Gatty 1903-1957) and pilot Wiley Post (1898-1935), celebrating their record-breaking achievement of flying around the world in under nine days. Date: 1931

Early aerial photograph and aviators
An early aerial photograph of Paris captured during Emile Dubonnet's (1883-1940) pioneering 65 mile flight from Juvisy to Orleans in 1910

GUYNEMER/HEROS DE FRANCE
France mourns the death of her greatest aviator, Georges-Marie Guynemer Date: 1917

Death of the French aviators Godard and Panis when their balloon was struck by lightning over Chicago, 1891 (print)
545200 Death of the French aviators Godard and Panis when their balloon was struck by lightning over Chicago, 1891 (print) by French School, (19th century); (add.info.: From Le Petit Journal)

Orville Wright on Flight 46 at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, 1905 (b/w photo)
1273725 Orville Wright on Flight 46 at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, 1905 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Wilbur lying on damaged machine after unsuccessful trial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 14, 1903, (b/w photo)
1273729 Wilbur lying on damaged machine after unsuccessful trial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 14, 1903, (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Orville Wright flying at a height of about 60 feet on flight 41 at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio
1273726 Orville Wright flying at a height of about 60 feet on flight 41 at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, September 29th 1905 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck, October 10th 1900
1273730 Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck, October 10th 1900 by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Pilots pose in front of a Plane that they fly coast to coast 1923 (photo)
679026 Pilots pose in front of a Plane that they fly coast to coast 1923 (photo) by Harris & Ewing (1905-45); (add.info.: Pilots pose in front of a Plane that they fly coast to coast)

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"Aviators: Pioneers of the Skies" From Amy Johnson's daring solo flight to Santos-Dumont's Sem, they have always pushed the boundaries of human achievement. Cabral and Coutinho defied all odds as they embarked on a historic journey, flying from Portugal to Brazil. The Bystander's article "Flying for Women" showcased the indomitable spirit of female aviators like Beryl Markham, who shattered stereotypes and soared through the clouds. The iconic image of the first flight in Kitty Hawk transports us back to that monumental moment when Orville and Wilbur Wright took off, covering 120 feet in just 12 seconds. This black-and-white photograph captures their determination and sets the stage for countless aviation triumphs to come. Innovations such as Batchelor Monoplane revolutionized aircraft design, while Harriet Quimby fearlessly broke barriers by becoming the first licensed female pilot in America. Shell Special Petrol fueled these pioneers' dreams, propelling them higher into uncharted skies. Samuel Cody's assorted memorabilia serves as a testament to his contributions towards aviation history. These artifacts remind us of his unwavering dedication and passion for flight. Motoring and Aviation Record Breakers continue to inspire awe with their incredible feats - Jim Mollison's partnership with Kangaroo exemplifies this spirit perfectly. Together, they conquered vast distances through sheer determination and skill. Aviation has come a long way since its humble beginnings; it has become an integral part of our modern world. As we look up at planes soaring overhead today, let us remember those brave aviators who paved the way for humanity's conquest of the skies.