Air control

Portable airship hangar, Farnborough
1910s, Air control, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Travel 2013

The portable airship hangar at Farnborough

Exactly three years ago I was visiting the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough, the historic home of British military aviation going back to 1904 through the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Cody’s first flight, and the Army’s Balloon Factory. The site now seems to consist largely of a series of business parks — though the famous air

1910s, 1920s, Air control, Australia, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Tools and methods

Airships against the Mad Mullah; or, #fundTrove

The following article appeared on p. 4 of the 15 June 1914 issue of the Broken Hill (NSW), newspaper, the Barrier Miner: AIRSHIPS AGAINST THE MAD MULLAH Aden, Saturday. Naval Lieutenants Boothby and Richard B. Davies are at Berbera, investigating the feasibility of utilising airships for the purpose of an expedition to subdue the Mad

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Air control, Australia, Books, Periodicals

Counter-revolution from above

In the middle of the First World War, the Australian government found itself preoccupied with the possibility of civil unrest, perhaps even rebellion. In December 1916 the Hughes government passed the Unlawful Associations Act, which proscribed the Australian branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Wobblies had campaigned strongly against conscription in the

1940s, Air control, Civil defence, Periodicals, Reprisals

Reprisals after notice

Shortly after the Blitz began in earnest, Conservative MP Victor Cazalet wrote to the editor of The Times to urge that the RAF carry out reprisals against German cities for the ‘indiscriminate bombing’ of London.1 ‘The attack on the civil population is a military weapon’, he argued. ‘Can we possibly afford to give Germany a

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