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European aircraft and aviators
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | Europe Italy--Venice Czechoslovakia |
| Description | Photographs show airplanes flown by Alberto Santos-Dumont; Gloster-Napier biplanes; Sablatnig-Limousine airplane fitted with skis; Stinson airplane; Savoia-Marchetti S.73; "hydroaerobus" built by Gabriel Voisin; Arnold Coblitz and ornithopters in Czechoslovakia; aerial photograph through Alfred Pietschker's biplane wings of the Taube airplane of Melli Beese (the first woman in Germany to get pilot's license); experiments relating to aerodynamics (lift and drag); seaplane being towed to the start of the Schneider Cup seaplane race in Venice, Italy. Also, portraits of Deutscher Aero Lloyd pilot Rother with four-engine Udet-Kondor; Reinhold Tiling, rocket pioneer, director and chief pilot of Osnabrück Flugwesen; Santos-Dumont at the controls of his airplane; etc. Also, reproduction of undated (1938?) German patent drawing (no. 617002) for detachable composite aircraft ("Zwillingsflugzeug"), showing a "daughter" seaplane on top of the larger "mother" or "porter" flying boat; etc. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Groups of Images (LOTs) |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Coblitz, Arnold. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Aircraft--European--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Air pilots--European--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Santos-Dumont, Alberto,--1873-1932. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Tiling, Reinhold, 1893-1933. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Airplane racing--Italy--Venice--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Ornithopters--Czechoslovakia--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Aeronautics--Europe--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Seaplanes--European--1900-1940. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Beese, Melli,--1886-1925. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
