Historical photos

[Fliegenmong]

Some great historical photos here.....

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Enjoy :ok:

[spekesoftly]

Great photos, but would be even better if they were sized to fit the page without having to scroll left/right.

[Bushfiva]

ctrl - is your friend.

[spekesoftly]

Thanks Bushfiva, works a treat. :ok:

[Gandalf the Viking]

Did anyone spot Tennyson's poem? -
"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue"
- Alfred,Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Not bad for a man who died 5 years before the first powered flight!:D
GtV

[GreenKnight121]

But who had seen (or most likely read) about dozens (if not scores) of attempts at powered manned heavier-than-air flight, had read of heavier-than-air manned gliders being flown (the first such documented, proven flight was 1804), had read of or seen manned dirigibles being flown on closed-circuits, and surely believed that those experiments would achieve success.

To me, the passages argosies of magic sails, and
From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue read more like descriptions of "air-ships" than heavier-than-air craft.

On 24 September 1852 Henri Giffard made the first powered and controlled flight, traveling 27 km (17 mi) from Paris to Trappes. It was the world's first passenger-carrying airship. Both practical and steerable, the hydrogen-filled airship was equipped with a 3 hp steam engine that drove a 3 bladed propeller.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Giffard1852.jpg/200px-Giffard1852.jpg

Charles Renard, aboard the dirigible "La France", made the first closed course circuit flight, of a length of 7.6 kilometres (4,7 mi) near Chalais-Meudon, August 9, 1884.