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Various documents related to
airships
. (Manuscript)
circa 1913-1977
YKM/3/9
Various documents related to airships, including: provisional specification for improvements in or connected with propeller gearing for airships, 1913; letter from the Parliamentary Airships Group dated 30 November 1971; extract from Hansard on a debate on Airships dated 24 May 1972; photograph of a…
Photographs of
airships
. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/12/2
Various photographs of airships including: postcard showing a zeppelin over Basel, dated 4 August 1908; ‘B’ class Argentinian airship model, dated July 1976; Chalais type dirigible, in flight at Brest, undated.
Drawings of
airships
. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/12/3
Two drawings of an airship, one pastel, one watercolour, the latter dated 1915.
Photographs of
airships
. (Manuscript)
1973-1978
YKM/3/2/7
Envelope containing photographs of airships. Includes: a German airship taken by Lord Ventry in 1973; the US airship EUROPA taken at Greenham Common in 1976 and at Eastleigh aerodrome in 1978.
Photographs of
airships
. (Manuscript)
circa 1974
YKM/3/2/8
Envelope containing photographs of airships, and a handwritten note from Harold Wingham (who served in the R.A.F.).
Various publications related to Goodyear
airships
. (Manuscript)
circa 1957-1968
YKM/3/4/2
Brochure for Goodyear airships; promotional article extracted from a publication on Goodyear airships; Summer 1968 issue of ‘Aviation Progress’ from the Goodyear Aviation Production division. This issue was dedicated to airships.
Papers related to Goodyear
airships
. (Manuscript)
circa 1957-1981
YKM/3/4
Papers related to Goodyear airships.
See lower level records for further details.…
Goodyear & US naval
airships
.’ (Manuscript)
circa 1953-1981
YKM/3/4/1
File containing documents mainly related to Goodyear airships.…
Article by Lord Ventry titled ‘Service
airships
for 1977'. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/7/1/3
Article by Lord Ventry, ‘Service airships for 1977'.
Draft and published papers regarding
airships
. (Manuscript)
1980
YKM/3/7
Draft and published papers regarding airships.
See lower level records for further details.…
Large photographs of
airships
. (Manuscript)
YKM/2/16/13/1-3
Three large photographs of airships.
See item level records for further details.…
Article by Lord Ventry titled ‘
Airships
again’. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/7/1/5
Article by Lord Ventry, ‘Airships again’.
Postcards and photographs of
airships
. (Manuscript)
circa 1910-1915
YKM/3/2/3
Envelope containing postcards and photographs of airships. Includes images of the No. 5 Willows airship, the Montgolfier airship and the Lebaudy airship.
Article by Lord Ventry: ‘A peacetime use for naval
airships
'. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/7/1/2
Article by Lord Ventry: ‘A peacetime use for naval airships'.
Photographs and drawings of
airships
and air balloons. (Manuscript)
circa 1908-1914
YKM/3/12
Photographs and drawings of airships and air balloons.
See lower level records for further details.…
Photographs of ships,
airships
and air balloons. (Manuscript)
circa 1910-1917
YKM/3/2/4
Envelope containing postcards and photographs of the following: the Willows II and III airships; E T Willows, airship builder; Waterlow’s experimental airship; the Montgolfier airship; French airship 1917 Clement Bayard; a French air balloon.…
Several articles on
airships
and air balloons extracted from periodicals. (Manuscript)
1976-1979
YKM/3/7/3
Several articles on airships and air balloons extracted from the following journals: Flight International; Aeroplane Monthly; Aerospace; and Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Article by Lord Ventry titled ‘How I became interested in
airships
’. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/7/1/4
Article by Lord Ventry, ‘How I became interested in airships’.
Article by Lord Ventry ‘Why not
airships
?’, extracted from a BP journal. (Manuscript)
YKM/3/7/1/6
Article by Lord Ventry: ‘Why not airships?’, extracted from the Journal of the International Aviation Service of the BP Group, Air BP.
Batch of photographs of
airships
mainly taken at Mullion Naval Airship Station. (Manuscript)
1916-01-10 – 1918-08-26
YKM/2/16/3
Batch of photographs of airships taken mainly at Mullion Naval Airship Station.
Three drafts of an article by York-Moore about the future of
airships
and balloons. (Manuscript)
circa 1977
YKM/3/7/2
Three drafts of an article by York-Moore about the future of airships and balloons.
Articles on Determination of position in
Airships
and Balloons, 1909 onwards (Manuscript)
1909
ACO/4/27/2
Articles on Determination of position in Airships and Balloons, 1909 onwards
List of
airships
from Mullion airship station that were deflated or wrecked. (Manuscript)
circa 1919
YKM/2/11
Typed list of airships from Mullion airship station that were deflated or wrecked.
Papers relating to
Airships
and Aeroplanes 1916-23 including reports, cew lists etc of the first trial
1916-1923
DEY/34
Papers relating to Airships and Aeroplanes 1916-23 including reports, cew lists etc of the first trial flight of HM Airship No.9 November 1916, reports of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 1917-20 and a paper on the development of the flying boat by J H Narbeth 1923
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