Following a thread provided by John Ptak on Twitter led me to the above image of ‘The great air-liner of the future’, published in The Sphere (London), 19 September 1925, 24–25. I agree with John: it’s an unusually fabulous image of the future of aviation, and I’d add unusually optimistic for Britain (though not uniquely
NAA: MP1049/1, 1918/066, page 109 is a copy of a letter from A. M. Black to Major Hogan of the ‘Intelligence Service’. It’s undated, but NAA: MP1049/1, 1918/066, page 108 (a cover letter from military intelligence to naval intelligence) says that it was written on 10 April 1918; the incident it relates to seems to
A few years back I published an article, ‘The shadow of the airliner: commercial bombers and the rhetorical destruction of Britain, 1917-1935’, in Twentieth Century British History. At that time I was given a link for free downloads which I provided for those without instiutional access. But it turns out that (1) I wasn’t really
NAA: MP1049/1, 1918/066, page 1011 is a police report from Sergeant W. Morris of Gosford, north of Sydney in the NSW Central Coast region. It’s an account of a mystery aeroplane sighting made by Lily Moir, a 23 year old woman living with her mother on a farm 1.5 miles east of Gosford. Shortly after
