RMAGNKYK–US Navy K class airship at California airshow c.1955
RM2CAWAHK–An old cigarette card (c. 1929) with a portrait of Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932) and an illustration of his airship. Dumont was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer in the development of lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. Santos-Dumont worked in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. In his early career he designed and flew hot air balloons and won the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize in 1901 for a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower. In 1906 his 14-bis made the first powered heavier-than-air flight in Europe. He did not patent his innovations.
RM2APA60C–A 1951 advert for Boulton & Paul Ltd, a construction and engineering company based in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. This appeared in a magazine marking the Festival of Britain celebrations in Norwich that year. The illustration features a large Victorian greenhouse (glasshouse). By the early 1900s Boulton & Paul had become a successful manufacturing firm. During the Second World War it was a major producer of prefabricated buildings, wire netting and maker of aircraft parts. Boulton & Paul produced most of the steel framework for the R101 airship which first flew in 1929.
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