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Flying model

Wind tunnel model of English Electric "Lightning P1.A"

Section of a Boeing 747, 1973.

1973

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Gloster Aircraft, E28/39, (without engine)

'Jason I', de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth

1928

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

One seal

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Model of Bleriot's Monoplane No. XI

1962

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Serial sculpture of bird flight

1992

Wind tunnel model of English Electric "Lightning P1.A"

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Medal, commemorating the first balloon ascents in Italy

1784

Medal, 'Le Flesselles' Montgolfier balloon flight, Lyon, France, 19 January 1784

1784

Medal commemorating the first manned balloon flights

1784

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Panorama de Paris

1878

Stone sculpture of R J Mitchell

2005

Pitot Head for Air Speed Indicator

Pitot Head for Air Speed Indicator

Altimeter, early type by Negretti and Zambra, marked Central Flying School No. II

Altimeter, early type by Negretti and Zambra

Early Balloon Statoscope instrument. (see note)

Early Balloon Statoscope instrument. (see note)

Pendulum Anemometer

Pendulum Anemometer

Gauge, dial type, for use with Airspeed Indicator

Gauge, dial type, for use with Airspeed Indicator

Model of balloon, in glass and metal, 10", containing 4 scent bottles. French. With wooden travelling case, [contemporary, 30x16x16cm, inlay edge, some damage].

A selection of 'ballooniana' objects, late 18th century.

1783-1810

Ornithopter

ornithopter

Engine (from Triplane of 1868) with boiler from F.J. Stringfellow Flying Machine of 1886

Engine, from 1868 Triplane, with Stringfellow's 1886 Flying Machine boiler

French patriotic plate, 10", flying machine over trees and hills. Inscribed "1 er d'essai d'un navire aerien 1780".

French airship, 1850.

1780

Landing ladder from British airship, R.29.

Landing ladder from British airship

Flat gold cigarette case, personal relics of the late Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown associated with his Translantic Flight of 1919.

Flat gold cigarette case

Concave gold cigarette case, personal relics of the late Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown associated with his Translantic Flight of 1919.

Concave gold cigarette case

Silver cup with plinth, Personal relics of the late Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown associated with his Translantic Flight of 1919.

Silver cup with plinth

Gold half-hunter wrist watch, personal relics of the late Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown associated with his Translantic Flight of 1919.

Gold half-hunter wrist watch

Tailless aeroplane, the Hill "Pterodactyl" Mk.I, with Bristol Cherub engine, by Captain Geoffrey T R Hill, England, 1920-1940

Tailless aeroplane

1920-1940

Demountable tetrode valve, type 43 E3, by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., Trafford Park, Trafford, Manchester, Cheshire, England, 1939. The demountable tetrode valve was part of a Chain Home Transmitter.

Metropolitan-Vickers demountable tetrode valve, type 43 E3

1939

Prototype of an inner fixed leading edge rib for an A380 airliner wing, manufactured by EADS Deutschland GmbH, Munich, 2003 (see note)

Airbus A380 Inner Fixed Leading Edge Rib, EADS, 2003

2003

Model of Avro "Tutor" Biplane, scale 1:24.

Model of Avro "Tutor" Biplane, scale 1:24.

Model of de Havilland 'Mosquito' aircraft, scale 1:24.

Model of de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito Aircraft

Model of de Havilland DH.84 'Dragon', scale 1:24.

Model of de Havilland DH.84 'Dragon'

Model of de Havilland 'Vampire' aircraft, scale 1:24.

Model of de Havilland DH.100 Vampire Aircraft

Model of de Havilland DH.86 'Dorado' aircraft, scale 1:24, sectioned.

Model of de Havilland DH.86 'Dorado' aircraft

Model of Boeing 707-436, scale 1:48.

Model of Boeing 707-436, scale 1:48.

Model of de Havilland 'Dove' aircraft, scale 1:48.

Model of de Havilland DH.104 Dove Aircraft

Model of Avro Anson aircraft, scale 1:24.

Model of Avro Anson aircraft, scale 1:24.

American white wood Tractor, as used on "Weiss" Monoplane, 1910

American white wood Tractor