Dropping Collection (page 7)

WW1 - French airship returning from action
WW1 - An aerial view of an open landscape, and a French dirigible returning to its shed on the morning after a successful raid over upper Alsace. Date: 1915

WW1 - Commodore Bigsworth drops bombs on zeppelin, 1915
WW1 - Air Commodore Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth (1885-1961) was a pioneer aviator who had a distinguished military career in the service of the British armed forces

WW1 - German airmen in combat
WW1 - A drawing from a German artist for a German newspaper who witnessed the airmen in a battle royal in mid-air. The two German officers in a biplane attack the French captive balloon shown below

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

Boeing B-29s dropping incendiary bombs on Japan

The Dropping Well, Knaresborough, Yorkshire
The Dropping Well, Knaresborough, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Dropping Well & Mother Shiptons Cave, Knaresborough, Yorksh
Dropping Well & Mother Shiptons Cave, Knaresborough, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

Dropping bombs on cricket match
Extract from Hun airmens report. " We dropped bombs on a British formation, causing the troops to disperse and run about in a panic-stricken manner." A cartoon by G.Jennis in Punch

WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and Hangars
WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and their targets - the Zeppelin Sheds in Dusseldorf. The picture shows 1) The Zeppelin shed at Bickendorf, 2) The Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, 3) An air-bomb

Suffrage Calendar Artists Suffrage League 1913. A suffrage calendar for 1913, published by the Artists Suffrage League. It shows a blindfolded baby astride a large white goose flying above a snowy

How the Gotha plane aims its bombs, WW1
Diagram showing how the bomber in a Gotha plane aimed its bombs over Britain during the First World War. To reduce the element of luck

Cricket a batsman dealing with a full pitch
A pokey batsman dealing with a high-dropping full-pitch. Date: 1888

Air Raid over Southend, 1917, WW1
An air raid over Southend-on-Sea in Essex on 12 August 1917 in which 10 men, 13 women and 9 children were killed. The raid was destined for London but intercepted by British planes the German

Lt George Ivan Carmichael dropping bombs - Menin Station
Lieutenant George Ivan Carmichael (Royal Artillery and Royal Flying Corps) dropping bombs on the rails at Menin Railway Station from a height of only 120 feet

Mr Asquith visiting the Western Front, WW1
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, visiting the Western Front during World War One. He is being shown a bomb dropping device on an aeroplane. Date: circa 1916

Aeroplane in modern warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in modern warfare: how the aeroplanes of the combatant powers have fared. Left: dropping bombs from an aeroplane onto massed troops below

Zeppelins aerial torpedo by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelins aerial torpedo: the appearance of the new missile. Top left: the launching cradle, showing firing pistol. Top right: the aerial torpedo with its turbine at rear end

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

Ground defence against enemy air attacks, WW1
Examples of ground defence against enemy air attacks during the First World War. Showing bomb-dropping by hand from an aeroplane, an aeroplane being transported on a military motor

Transatlantic flight by G. H. Davis
The transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device

Germanys expenditure on aircraft by G. H. Davis
Germanys new expenditure on her aircraft: five years planned expenditure on airships, sheds and aeroplanes. Illustrating the latest military experiment with Zeppelins -- guns on the roof

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

Illustration of Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) in mid-air, dropping bone to smash it open and feed on bone marrow

Illustration of pair of Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) dropping stones on ostrich eggs to crack them open

The space shuttles external fuel tank falls toward Earths atmosphere
July 26, 2005 - The external fuel tank is jettisoned from the Space Shuttle Discovery and falls toward Earths atmosphere during the completion of the launch phase of the STS-114 mission

An external fuel tank backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth
May 31, 2008 - Backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, the STS-124 external fuel tank begins its relative separation from the Space Shuttle Discovery

An F-15E Strike Eagle drops a GBU-28 bomb during a Combat Hammer mission
August 10, 2010 - An F-15E Strike Eagle drops a GBU-28 bomb during a Combat Hammer mission at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Combat Hammer is an Air-to-Ground Weapons System Evaluation Program maintained

Air Delivery Platoon drops heavy equipment from a C-17
December 5, 2004 - Air Delivery Platoon drops heavy equipment from a C-17. This particular humvee landed directly on target

The starboard anchor of USS Ronald Reagan is released into the ocean
Pacific Ocean, February 2, 2005 - The starboard anchor of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is released into the ocean during an anchor drop test

An A-10C Thunderbolt releases two High Drag BDU-50s over Idaho
An A-10C Thunderbolt from the 190th Fighter Squadron releases two High Drag BDU-50s during a training mission out of Boise, Idaho

Pallets of cargo dropping from a C-17 Globemaster III to a forward operating base
August 27, 2009 - Pallets of cargo drop from a C-17 Globemaster III to a forward operating base in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

An A-10C Thunderbolt releases a GBU-12 laser guided bomb
An A-10C Thunderbolt from the 190th Fighter Squadron releases a GBU-12 Laser Guided Bombs during a training mission out of Boise, Idaho

Container delivery system bundles dropping from a C-17 Globemaster III in Afghanistan
September 23, 2009 - Container delivery system bundles dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III outside a forward operating base in Afghanistan

Container delivery system bundles parachute down to a drop zone marked by warfighters
May 9, 2010 - Container delivery system bundles parachute down to a drop zone marked by warfighters on the ground in Afghanistan

Pallets are released from a C-17 Globemaster III over Afghanistan
May 4, 2012 - Critical supplies are delivered to an undisclosed location in Afghanistan via airdrop by a C-17 Globemaster III

An F-16 Fighting Falcon releases two GBU-24 laser guided bombs
An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Test Center releases two GBU-24 laser guided bombs during a test mission

A loadmaster throws a smoke grenade out of an HC-130 aircraft
June 3, 2008 - An HC-130 King aircraft loadmaster throws a smoke grenade out of an HC-130 during a training mission off the coast of Djibouti

A Marine prepares to drop a high explosive round into a mortar tube
January 9, 2006 - A Marine prepares to drop a high explosive round into the tube during an indirect fire mission launched against insurgents near Forward Operating Base Hit, Iraq

Bundles of humanitarian supplies are dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III
April 13, 2008 - 40 bundles of humanitarian supplies are dropped from a C-17 Globemaster III using the Joint Precision Airdrop Delivery System to a drop zone in Afghanistan

U. S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft drops 2, 000-pound joint direct attack
November 26, 2009 - U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft drops 2, 000-pound joint direct attack munitions on a cave in eastern Afghanistan

A pararescueman drops into the zone trailing his teams rescue supplies outside of Camp Lemonier
June 1, 2010 - A pararescueman drops into the zone trailing his teams rescue supplies at an aircraft accident outside of Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti

A B-66 Destroyer and F-105 Thunderchief aircraft bomb North Vietnam
June 14, 1966 - Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam

An F-22 Raptor releases a GBU-32 JDAM over New Mexico
An F-22 Raptor releases a GBU-32 JDAM on a training mission out of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

A U. S. Air Force AC-130 Gunship aircraft executing an evasive maneuver and dropping chaff
September 14, 2007 - A U.S. Air Force AC-130 Gunship aircraft executes an evasive maneuver and drops chaff and flares during a firepower demonstration at the Nevada Test and Training Range in Nevada

C-17 Globemaster IIIs participate in a large formation exercise
December 21, 2006 - C-17 Globemaster IIIs participate in a large formation exercise over the coast of Charleston, South Carolina

A Marine prepares to execute a midpoint drop
Indian Head, Maryland, April 19, 2007 - A Marine with the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, prepares to execute a midpoint drop at the Naval Support Facility Indian Head

An F-22A Raptor drops a GBU-32 bomb during a Combat Hammer mission during a two-week large-scale evaluation. Combat Hammer is also known as a Weapons System Evaluation Program for air-to-ground

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Dropping hints can lead to unexpected consequences, just like Bismarck's political maneuvering or the Dropping Pilot's risky decisions. As illustrated by William Heath Robinson, dropping from a Kite Balloon in 1917 required courage and precision. But let's not forget that sometimes what we drop can be quite unusual - like coprolite, fossil dung that reveals ancient secrets. Even Sir Isaac Newton understood the power objects to uncover scientific truths. Just as The Fox and the Crow taught us about deception, dropping subtle clues can reveal hidden intentions. In times of war, such as during WW1 depicted in the cartoon 'The Dropped Pilot, ' even a simple act could change lives forever. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream reminds us how love potions dropped into unsuspecting eyes create chaos and comedy alike. Airborne adventures captured in 'In The Air' show us the thrill through clouds with freedom and exhilaration. And who would have thought that ground sloth droppings or coprolites could provide valuable insights into prehistoric life? G. E Studdy humorously captures anticipation with 'I'm dropping in soon. ' Lastly, pondering on the panspermia theory of life makes one wonder if our existence was simply dropped onto Earth from outer space. So next time you drop a hint, remember its potential impact may go beyond your imagination.