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‘Adopt-a-Picture’ Appeal
— The Carlo Vita-Finzi bequest of books and
papers on early Italian aeronautics
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Weather Bureau. W.B.110: Reprinted
from the ‘Monthly Weather Review’
beginning April 1896. (US Weather
Bureau. 1896). 135pp. Illustrated.
n July the Royal Aeronautical
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 c.1913.
‘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 W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44
(0)20
7670
4362.
e-mail:
[email protected]. Anyone
who would like to contribute to the
rebinding costs of these particular
items from the Library’s unique
archive of the world's aeronautical
heritage will have their donation
recorded on the bookplate placed
inside the particular rebound
volume.
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LORD VENTRY COLLECTION
The Society’s Library
— The Lord Ventry Airship Collection
F
ollowing the death of Lord
Ventry [The Hon A.F. De
Moleyns] (1898-1987) the Society’s
Library received a large quantity of
material (including many hundreds
of photographs) recording the
development of airships over the
years. Much of this material was
indexed at the time but the
collection has recently been added
to by the inclusion of a number of
historically important arrangement
plans and other papers which were
previously uncatalogued.
A former airship pilot and a
passionate advocate for the use of
airships, Lord Ventry was the editor
of The Airship journal from Vol 1
No 1 Spring 1934 — Vol 7 No 6
Winter 1948/49 and co-author of
Jane’s Pocket Book of Airship
Development (London: Macdonald
& Jane's. 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. T.L.M. 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. c.1919.
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). R.S. 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. C.I.R.
Campbell. 13pp.
Parc
Aéronautique
de
Pau:
Tourisme Aérien en Dirigeable a
bord dur Croiseur transaérien ‘Astra
1 — Ville-de-Pau’. Compagnie
Générale Transaérienne. c.1909. 4pp.
Illustrated.
The Balloon: a New and Original
Farcical Comedy in Three Acts. J.H.
Darnley and G. Manville Fenn.
Samuel French Ltd, London. c.1925.
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. J.N.
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.
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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. C.V.S.
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. c.1936.
Modern Airships: Lecture delivered
at the House of Commons on 28
June 1920. E.M. Maitland. 14pp.
Description du Dirigeable Zeppelin
IV LZ-16. Capitaine MartinotLagarde. c.1913. 24pp.
Leaves from my Logbook: Record
of the First Officer of the Airship
R100. G.F. Meager. Wingfoot
Lighter-Than-Air Society, Akron,
OH. 1961. 97pp. Illustrated.
The Army Airship Roma. J.B.
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. E.A. 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.
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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. V.C. 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. C.E.
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. C.E.
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.S.Z. 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, 31.12.25]. 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. c.1910. 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. c.1958. 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. B.N.
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]. c.1937. 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: [email protected]
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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.zenzietinker.co.uk; 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
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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).
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.aerosociety.com/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 [email protected]).
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.aersosociety.com/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
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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 [email protected]
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Top: C S Grace on his Short
Biplane.
Bottom: Westland Sikorsky
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