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Society Library was presented with a significant collection of material on early Italian aeronautics by the grandsons of Col Carlo Vita-Finzi (1866-1923), an early Italian aviation pioneer and balloonist who was to command Italy’s air platoon. The collection includes a number of important documents on early Italian airships and the military use of aeronautics from some of its main proponents including Captain G.A Crocco and Guilio Douhet. The collection is summarised below: Faccioli, A. Teoria del Volo e della Navigazione Aerea: Recherche Sperimentali Sulla Resistenza dell’Aria. Teoria dell’Elice e del Timone. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli 1895) 309pp. Illustrated An early technical analysis of the possibilities of flight. Almerico da Schio La Possibilita in Aeronautica: Conferenza tenuta alla Associzione della Stampa in Roma la sera del 12 Aprile 1902. (Rome: Uffico della Nuova Parola. 1902) 24pp Almerico da Schio Verso la Prima Aeronave March 1904. (Stab L Fabris & C. 1904) 22pp

Illustrated Almerico da Schio Dell’ Aeronave ‘Italia’ Relazione (Con Tre Tavole) April 1905. (Schio: Tip-Lit L Marin 1905) 34pp. Illustrated Crocco, A. Il Momento Aeronautico: Conferenza Letta in Roma nel Mese di Aprile 1906. Extract from ‘Revista d’artigliera e genia’ Vol 2 1906. (Rome: Enrico Voghera 1906) 29pp. Illustrated Reviews the development of aviation from 1890-1905 focusing on the researches of Ferber and the Wright brothers. Crocco, G.A La verticale di consumo nei dirgibili: Extract from Bollettino della Societa Aeronautica Italiana No 12 1907. (Rome: Tipografia dell Unione Cooperatavia Editrice. 1907) 7pp. Illustrated Describes the aerodynamic design of airship ballonets. Crocco, G.A La Navigazione Aerea: Lecture presented at the Third Congresso della Societa Italiana per il progresso delle scienze, Padova, September 1909. Extract from 10 Tschudi Instruktion fur den Ballonfuhrer. (Berlin: Deutscher Verein fur Luftschiffahrt. 1901) 121pp. A practical manual

for balloon aeronauts which concludes with a table of useful phrases (in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Bohemian, Romanian and Turkish) for the balloonist to have available on landing. Forlanini F.2 ‘Citta di Milano’ semi-rrigid airship c1913 ‘L’Industria’ Vol 23 Nos 46, 48 and 49. (Milan: Tipografia deglia Operai (Soc. Cooperativa). 1910) 24pp De Maria, A. Navigazione Aerea (Aviazone). (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli 1909) 338pp. Illustrated A well-illustrated contemporary history of the development of aviation in Europe. Primo Congresso Nazionale di Locomozione Aerea: Promosso dalla Societa Aviazione Torino, Toriono 1619 Aprile 1910. Atti, Resconti, Memoirie pubblicati per cura del Comitato ordinatore. (Turin: Societa Tipografico-Editrice Nazionale [STEN]. 1910) 255pp Primo Annuario dell’ Aeronautica 1910. (Milan: Touring Club Italiano 1910) 456pp. Illustrated Records details of a number of the results of early aviation meetings, aero clubs, aeronautical

journals and technical summaries of a number of early aircraft, airships and aero engines. Societa Aviazione Torino. Fifth Congres International d’Aeronautique: Proces-Verbaux, Rapports & Memoires par les soins del a Commission permanente internationale d’Aeronautique et de la Societa Aviazione Torino, Turin, 2531 October 1911. (Turin: Tipografia Elzeviriana. 1912) 439pp Illustrated Norme per lo Impiego degli Aeroplani in Guerra: Istruzione provvisoria. (Rome: Ministero della The Aerospace Professional Guerra. 1913) 26pp Panetti, M. and Burzio, F Richerche Sperimentali sulla Resistenza dell‘ Aria: Contro schermi piani, sottli, rotanti. Extract from ‘Atti della Reale Accad. delle Scienze di Torino’ Vol 50 1914-1915 21 March 1915 and 9 May 1915. (Turin: Libreria Fratelli Bocca 1915) pp 737-748; 1053-1066. La Polla, E. La Tecnica dell’ Aviatore (Turin: S. Lattes & C, Editori 1915) 291pp. Illustrated D’Amico, S. Bollettino delle Norme per l’Accetazione ed il

Collaudo dei Materiali d’Aviazone: 2 Semstre 1916. (Turin: Direzione Tecnica dell’ Aviazone Militare. 1916) 50pp Illustrated. Includes details of the early manufacture of aircraft propellers. Panetti, M. Il Laboratario di Aerodinamica del R. Politecnico di Torino: Extract from ‘Gironale dell’ Associazione Nazionale degli Ingegneri Italiani’ Vol 1 Nos-4, 5, and 6. (Milan: Societe Editrice TecnicoScientifica 1920) 9pp Illustrated Describes one of the earliest wind tunnels to be established in Italy. Douhet, G. Il Dominio dell’ Aria: Saggio sull’ Arte della Guerra Aerea, con una Appendice Contentente Nozioni Elementari di Aeronautica. (Rome: Stabilimento Poligraphico per l’Amministrazione della Guerra. 1921) 191pp. Marvin, C.F Kite Experiments at the Andre, M.H Moteurs d’Aviation et de Dirigeables. (Paris: Librairie des Sciences et de l’Industrie. 1910) 194pp. Illustrated Illustrated throughout with many photographs and line diagrams, this is an informative reference

work on early aircraft and airship engines arranged by manufacturer. Due to a combination of age and usage some of this material is now in need of conservation so that it can be preserved for current and future generations of aviation historians. The particular titles in mind include Teoria del Volo e della Navigazione Aerea, Primo Congresso Nazionale di Locomozione Aerea, Fifth Congres International d’Aeronautique and Moteurs d’Aviation et de Dirigeables. Additional contemporary Italian aeronautical material held in the Society’s Library which now needs to be rebound includes the journals l’Aeronauta 1896-1899 (2 volumes) and Bollettino della Societa Aeronautica Italiana 1904-1909 (6 volumes). The average cost of rebinding a worn volume is about £30, depending on its size and condition. if any individual member, company or organisation would like to ‘adopt’ one of these volumes, please contact: Brian Riddle, Librarian, Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London

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(London: Macdonald & Janes. 1976) and Airship Saga (Poole: Blandford Press Ltd 1982). Some of the ‘highlights’ of the collection are summarised below: Mooring Experiments carried out with R26. TLM Boothby RN Airship Station Experimental Department, Pulham. 1919 27pp Illustrated. 1/125 scale drawing of HMA R33 Development [DRG No 40/P]. c.1919 The Machinery of HM Rigid Airships R33 and R34 constructed by the Sunbeam Motor Car Co Limited, Moorfield Works, Wolverhampton: Reprinted from Engineering 2 and 16 April 1920. Sunbeam-Coatelen Aircraft Engines. Harrison & Sons, London 8pp + 1p. Illustrated 1/200 scale blueprint drawing showing comparative half-side and front-view arrangement diagrams for L71, R38 and R36 [DRG No S33]. Air Ministry Airship Research Section. 1923 1/200 scale R38 General Arrangement drawing [Blueprint drawing 609/38]. Royal Airship Works, Cardington. 1920 Specification of New Designs of Rigid Airship R80 25L. 22 November 1917. Vickers Ltd Airship Dept,

Barrow-in-Furness. 1917 12pp Notes regarding airship R100 constructed at Howden, East Yorks, by the Airship Guarantee Co, Ltd, 10 Press Visit on Thursday, 28 November 1929. Air Ministry, London. 10pp HMA R100 Inspection of Fins, Rudders, Elevators, Passenger Saloon, Corridors, Power and Control Cars Analysis of Operations [Blueprint drawing]. c.1929 File of papers and correspondence relating to the transatlantic crossings of HMA R100 to Canada and back. Aeronautical Inspection Directorate and Royal Airship Works, Cardington. 1930 Includes various structural assessment reports and passenger and crew lists. Airworthiness Investigation of Airship R101 (Unpublished Air Ministry report September 1929). File of papers relating to the specification and design of the proposed new airship R102 (‘Confidential’). Royal Airship Works, Cardington. 1930 Work on the R102 design was cancelled in the aftermath of the crash of the rigid airship R101 near Beauvais in France in the early hours of

5 October 1930. Various papers relating to the siting, shed erection and hutting accommodation at the various Airship Mooring-out Stations. Admiralty. 1918 Examines the contemporary position and perceived future requirements of airship hangar storage, and includes detailed tables recording the airship station allocation of the various types of British military airships then in operation. Various pages of comparative data for French and Italian airships. Admiralty. c1919 Rigid Airship Trial Staff Notebook [Confidential February 1917]. Admiralty Air Department. 123pp German Rigid Airships: Zeppelin L33 Plans A-M. Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1917 Proposed Allocation of Airships for Home Waters. Admiralty and Royal Air Force. 1918-1919 Series of arrangement blueprint The Aerospace Professional During its fourth trial flight on 24 August 1921 the R38 airship broke in two over the Humber estuary. The names of the 32 Anglo-A American crew who died in the accident are

recorded on the R38 Memorial Tablet (designed by the Art and Crafts Movement artist John Paul Cooper) which was originally unveiled on 29 June 1925 by the American Ambassador, Mr Alanson B. Houghton, in the Society’s Library when the Society’s offices were on the second floor of No 7 Albermarle Street. It is currently on display outside the Hawker Room on the first floor of Hamilton Place (right). diagrams for ‘Storm’ Type Kite [DRG No 02/900; 02/901-1-2; 02/9021-2; 02/908; 02-1056-5; 02-4056] (six sheets). Air Ministry 1940 1/10 scale blueprint diagram of General Arrangement of AD500 Gondola [Drawing No 1214-03-00]. Airship Developments Ltd. 1980 Goodyear Aircraft. Allen, H Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Akron, OH. 1947 162pp Illustrated Consideration sur les Dirigeables Zeppelin, les Ballons rigides et les Ballons souples. Capitaine Bois c.1913 9pp Report on a Visit to the United States and Canada to study Airship Development (Unpublished typescript). RS Booth 1932 202pp.

The Development of Airship Construction: Paper read at the Spring Meetings of the Sixtieth Session of the Institution of Naval Architects, 10 April 1919. CIR Campbell. 13pp Parc Aéronautique de Pau: Tourisme Aérien en Dirigeable a bord dur Croiseur transaérien ‘Astra 1 Ville-de-Pau’. Compagnie Générale Transaérienne. c1909 4pp Illustrated. The Balloon: a New and Original Farcical Comedy in Three Acts. JH Darnley and G. Manville Fenn Samuel French Ltd, London. c1925 56pp. Brochure, passenger list and luggage label relating to Hindenburg flight to South America. Deutsche ZeppelinReederei, Frankfurt am Main. 1936 Collection of various timetables, publicity material and 10 postcards for the airships LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ-129 Hindenburg and LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II. Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei, Frankfurt am Main. 1936-1937 D’Orcy’s Airship Manual: an International Register with a Compendium of the Airship’s Elementary Mechanics. L D’Orcy The Century Co, New York. 1917

232pp. Illustrated The Problems of Commercial Operation of Airships: Statement made to the Federal Aviation Commission at a Hearing, 29 October 1934 [Typescript]. Dr Hugo Eckener. 19pp Lecture on Maintenance, Flying, and Operations of Airships. JN Fletcher. RAF Staff College, Cranwell. 1918 50pp Illustrated Comparative Weights of Airship Planes. Frederick Sage and Co Ltd Aeronautical Department, London. 1918 1pp Germany’s Rigid Airships in June 1916: Intelligence Circular No 7. General Headquarters Home Forces, London. 11pp Continued on p 12. Source: http://www.doksinet LORD VENTRY COLLECTION Goodyear Airships: Balloons and Accessories. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH. 1920 31pp. Illustrated The Hindenburg Souvenir Book: Published to commemorate the inauguration of Transatlantic Airship Transportation by the Hindenburg. H Houston Official Program Corporation, New York. 1936. 36pp Illustrated International Airship Limited Proposed Operations and Estimated Costs

Photographs and Specifications by the courtesy of the Goodyear Company (plus attached correspondence). 1936 10pp Un Dirigeable Militaire: ‘L’Adjudant-Vincenot’ (1911-1916). E. Joux Blondel la Rougery, Paris 1931. 48pp Illustrated Design Details of the Goodyear Model K Airship Parts 1-3. CVS Knox. Aeronautical Digest Publishing Corp, Washington DC. 1945. 24pp Illustrated Rapport Technique d’Ascension Ballon Dirigeable ‘Clement Bayard VII’ (Ascent No 11 of 6 April 1917). Capitaine P Leroy 1917 5pp On 7 April 1917 the Clement Bayard VII airship General Meusnier crashed on coming down from an altitude test in France and was never delivered to the Imperial Russian Army. Organisation des Grands Centres de Dirigeables Allemande. Col P Leroy c.1920 13pp Illustrated Zeppelin-Reliefkarte EuropaSudamerika 1:5 Millionen. Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Ludwig Ravenstein AG, Frankfurt. c1936 Modern Airships: Lecture delivered at the House of Commons on 28 June 1920. EM Maitland 14pp

Description du Dirigeable Zeppelin IV LZ-16. Capitaine MartinotLagarde c1913 24pp Leaves from my Logbook: Record of the First Officer of the Airship R100. GF Meager Wingfoot Lighter-Than-Air Society, Akron, OH. 1961 97pp Illustrated The Army Airship Roma. JB Mitchell. Syms-Eaton Museum, Hampton, VA. 1973. 34pp. Illustrated. Various papers relating to the status of airship hangars and seaplane bases along the Tyrrhenean and Ionian Coast and the Adriatic Coast. Office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy. 1918 Includes tables recording the locations and dimensions of Italian airship hangars and the static and dynamic characteristics of Italian airships. Promotional leaflet for the 1936 transatlantic crossings of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg. Das Zeppelinluftschiff seine Entwicklung, Tatigkeit und Leistungen. F Kollmann Verlag von M.Krayn, Berlin 1924 80pp Illustrated. Zeppelin: the Story of Lighter-thanair Craft. EA Lehmann and L Adelt. Longmans, Green and Co, London. 1937

365pp Illustrated Avenir de l’Aérostation Dirigeable en Russie. J Leloup Librarie P Rosier, Paris. 1911. 62pp. Illustrated. Projet d’Instruction Pratique sur la Navigation a l’Estime en Ballon Dirigeable. Lieutenant P Leroy 1914. 14pp Illustrated 12 Some Modern Developments in Rigid Airship Construction: Paper read at the Spring Meetings of the Sixty Ninth Session of the Institution of Naval Architects, 30 March 1928. VC Richmond 15pp Illustrated. Report on the Lighter-than-Air Situation to the National Aeronautics Committee of the American Legion at New York City Tuesday 26 August 1947. CE Rosendahl. 30pp “They Were Dependable”: Airship Operation World War II 7 December 1941 to September 1945. C.E Rosendahl US Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, NJ. 1946 56pp Illustrated. We Need Airships: Reprinted from Colliers 10 June 1944. CE Rosendahl. Crowell Collier Publishing Company, New York. pp 5-12. Illustrated The Aerospace Professional General arrangement blueprint drawing of

Car of HMA SS Zero [Drawing No S.SZ 500] Royal Naval Airship Construction Station, Wormwood Scrubs. 1918 1/2500 scale drawing of the layout of RN Airship Station Pulham, Norfolk [Pulham Drawing Office No 343] and smaller blueprint drawing. 1918 File of papers relating to the Investigation of Accommodation of Power Units within the Airship Hull Structure. Royal Airship Works, Cardington. 1929 Plan of Standard Airship Landing Party Formation [Drawing Office Issue No 4927, 31.1225] Royal Airship Works Cardington. 1925 From Société Zodiac catalogue c.1910 Der Luftschiffbau Schutte-Lanz 1909-1925. J Schutte Druck und Verlag von R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1926. 152pp Illustrated Zodiac Dirigeables, Captifs, Spheriques, Parachutes, Treuils et Tenders d’Aérostation. Société Zodiac, Puteaux. c1910 32pp Illustrated. Extrait de l’Etude sur le Zeppelin L-49. Sous-Sécrétariat d’etat de L’Aéronautique, Militaire et Maritime, Paris. 1917 15pp Illustrated. L’Aéronautique Militarie

Les Dirigeables Francais et les Dirigeables Etrangers, l’Accident du ‘République’, l’Avenir: Conference a l’Hotel des Ingénieurs Civils pour la Séance Solennelle de la Société Francaise de Navigation Aérienne le 13 Janvier 1910. E Surcouf L’Aéronaute, Paris. 1910 16pp Illustrated. The Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute: Reprinted from Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 9, No 1, January 1938. Th Troller pp 24-29 Airship Mooring Devices: Technical Regulations No 1170-266. US Air Corps, Washington, DC. 1929 11pp Illustrated. Rigid Airship Manual 1927. US Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington DC. 413pp. Illustrated British Naval Non-Rigid Airships 1914-1918. Lord Ventry c1958 pp 26-33. The Small Airship and National Defence. Lord Ventry 1953 21pp Illustrated. Includes a detailed discussion of the Airship Club’s Bournemouth non-rigid airship design. Arrangement diagrams of Mooring Experiments Barrow-in-Furness 1917 [Naval Airship Station Walney Island

Drawing No M3]. Vickers Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness. 1917. 1/100 scale arrangement drawing of Vickers Non-Rigid Airship Parseval Type 360,000 cbc ft Proposed Passenger Ship [Drawing No 108 P1]. Vickers Ltd, Barrow-inFurness 1919 1/500 scale arrangement drawings of Vickers Patent Mooring Gear for Rigid Airships Details of Aerodrome with Mooring Tower and Mooring Masts for Vickers Non-Rigid Airships (two sheets). Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness. 1919. Some Technical Aspects of the Commercial Airship: Lloyd’s Register Staff Association Paper No 5 read 10 February 1926. BN Wallis. 23pp Illustrated The Standardization of Data for Airship Calculations: Paper read at the Spring Meetings of the SixtySecond Session of the Institution of Naval Architects, 17 March 1921. H.B Wyn-Evans 21pp Detailed listing of construction dates and physical dimensions of all Zeppelin Airships (Up to LZ 129) [Typescript]. c1937 7pp All enquiries regarding the collection should be addressed to: Brian Riddle,

Librarian, Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 4362. e-mail: brian.riddle@raesorguk Source: http://www.doksinet Afterburner Society News NATIONAL AEROSPACE LIBRARY Conservation of The CuthbertHodgson Collection The National Aerospace Library at Farnborough holds an extensive early ballooning collection, the Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection, which is probably one of the finest of its kind in the world. Funded through a combination of the Foyle Foundation, the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation, proceedings from the National Aerospace Library’s stand at its Aerospace and Aviation Book Fairs and the sponsorship of J R Thirkettle CEng MRAeS, over the past five years almost the entire collection of 18th and 19th century ballooning lithographs, posters and fabrics has been archivally conserved. This major conservation project has involved the lithographs and posters being carefully separated by the conservators Riley, Dunn and Wilson Ltd

of Falkirk from their old board mountings, archivally repaired and individually encapsulated in a polyester laminate (and housed in made-to-measure archival storage boxes) which means that they can be handled and studied without damaging the originals. As described in The Aerospace Professional in January 2011 (p 15) the Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection also includes a number of original fabrics from notable balloons. A detailed conservation project of these surviving fabrics and other associated ballooning ephemera has now been undertaken by Zenzie Tinker Textile Conservation (www.zenzietinkercouk; T +44 (0)1273 685222) As with the lithographs and posters, each fabric sample and other ephemera held in the collection had to be very carefully removed from its old card mounts prior to conservation treatment and cleaning. Those samples that were damaged or extremely fragile were supported with a fine Japanese paper, using wheat starch paste as the adhesive. Both the paper and the textile

samples were treated in this way, except for the two larger textile samples which were supported with a reversible, conservation adhesive treated silk crepeline applied to the back of the sample and further supported with some laid stitching for extra strength. Annotations and labels, if written on or attached to the previous mount, were removed and tipped in to the new mount using wheat starch paste. The windows were attached to the back boards using a 48 AEROSPACE / JUNE 2014 hinge of linen tape running down the left hand side and Melinex sheets were hinged from the top edge of the back boards, over the samples, to protect them while also enabling future access to the samples which are now housed in two new madeto-measure solander boxes. The fabrics collection includes among others fragments from the hot air balloon in which Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world’s first aerial voyage on 21 November 1783; Chevalier de Moret’s hot air balloon destroyed by

fire at Chelsea, 10 August 1784; Cocking’s parachute; Garnerin’s balloon c.1803-1804; Dean’s Rarefied Air Balloon 1819; Graham Coronation Balloon, 1824; J W Hoar’s Immense Hot Air Balloon ‘destroyed by the crowd, May 1838’, Mrs Graham’s Gas Balloon of August 1830 and from her wrecked balloon of 1851; samples of silk used in Charles Green’s Victoria and Nassau balloons, 1831-37; John Hamptons’ balloon, 1838; Comte de Lennox’s cylindrical airship ‘The Eagle’ 1835 and fragments of contemporary printed chintz with intricate ballooning designs among other artefacts and ephemera. The origins of the collection can be traced to the Cuthbert Aeronautical Collection of John Cuthbert who started collecting early aeronautica pre-1820s and over time his collection was bought by J E Hodgson, a bibliophile and aviation historian who was the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Honorary Librarian during c.1920s-1930s, who added to the collection which was purchased in its entirety

in 1948 by Sir Frederick Handley Page and presented to the Royal Aeronautical Society in order to preserve the collection for the nation. Conservator Camilla CloseBrooks attaching samples to new mount board using Japanese paper hinges. Zenzie Tinker Conservation Ltd. Below: Portrait engraving of the pioneering balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806). Bottom: Representation of Jean-Pierre Blanchard’s ascent from Frankfurt 3 October 1785. RAeS (NAL). Source: http://www.doksinet Representation of Jean-Pierre Blanchard’s ascent from Nuremberg 12 November 1787 his 28th ascent. Funded by a major bequest to the Library from the estate of the former NASA scientist Dr Charles E Billings FRAeS, many ‘highlights’ from the collection were digitally photographed in 2011 and a wide selection (238 images) of the 18th and 19th century ballooning lithographs and posters can be viewed via the website: RAeS (NAL). Below: Handbill advertising Charles Green’s ascent in the ‘Nassau’

balloon from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, 31 July 1838 the pioneering British balloonist Charles Green (1785-1870) made over 500 ascents in his lifetime, of which the National Aerospace Library holds records as original handbills/ posters of 241 separate flights. RAeS (NAL) www.aerosocietycom/printsandposters Now this collection which contains many items of historic interest which are older than, for example, the American Constitution and pre-date the French Revolution has been preserved for current and future generations to view and research, detailed catalogue records of the individual ballooning lithographs, posters and fabrics (765 items) having been compiled on behalf of the Library staff by retired volunteer and Society member Mike Stanberry MRAeS. The Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection also incorporates one of the world’s finest collections of early aeronautical and aviation books recording the development of aerial flight and representations of it through the ages.

Adopt-a-Book An archival conservation study has been undertaken of these older volumes, identifying those particular titles which, due to a combination of age and use, are in need of archival conservation. The average cost for those books needing attention to be conserved in their original bindings (with the cloth rebacked and spines remounted and/or made-tomeasure archival solander boxes produced to house the material) is about £110 plus VAT per volume. If any individual member, company or organisation would like to contribute to the cost of conserving these historic volumes please contact under the Library’s ‘Adopt-a-Book’ conservation programme, Brian Riddle, Chief Librarian (+44 (0)1252 701060; E brian.riddle@aerosocietycom) Photographic Archive Online The National Aerospace Library holds a very extensive photographic collection of aviation images (well over 100,000) dating from the early days of ballooning through to the modern technology aircraft, missiles and rockets of

today. It also includes numerous aviation personalities across the same period. Assembled over the decades through numerous donations from aircraft companies, organisations and individuals, the photographic archive is a major visual record of the development of aviation through the ages. Over 8,000 images from the collection (more to follow) can now be viewed online at: www.aersosocietycom/printsandposters alongside over 440 vintage colour aviation posters/magazine covers/air show programmes/ airline timetables/decorative book covers/ ballooning lithographs, etc. from the Library’s Find us on Twitter i Find us on LinkedIn f archives. Reproductions can be ordered as posters, prints and a wide range of gifts. The website has been produced in collaboration with the Mary Evans Picture Library (www. maryevans.com) through whom these images can be licensed for reproduction in books, magazines, advertising and other media. For any enquiries regarding this material, please contact the

Librarians at Farnborough: T +44 (0)1252 701038/701060 or E hublibrary@aerosociety.com Find us on Facebook www.aerosocietycom Top: C S Grace on his Short Biplane. Bottom: Westland Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA. JUNE 2014 49