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Aeroplane, 8 June 1911, 21
Archives, Periodicals, Pictures, Tools and methods

Partial Aeroplane archive

A few months back I wrote about alternatives to the (still missing, still missed) FlightGlobal archive of Flight magazine, a key source for aviation history (for me, anyway). I forgot to mention that Flight‘s great rival, The Aeroplane (founded and edited by the egregious C. G. Grey), is also partially accessible through the Internet Archive. […]

Duprée and Ashley, Britannia Must Rule the Air
1910s, Archives, Art, Film, Music, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Videos

Britannia must rule the air!

This stirring scene is the cover for the sheet music for a song published in 1913, Britannia Must Rule the Air, written by Frank Duprée and composed by Charles Ashley. It shows a reasonable (if stubby) approximation of a Zeppelin in the process of being destroyed by gunfire from two aeroplanes, a Farman-type biplane and

1930s, Art, Periodicals, Pictures

Modern wonders — I

For nearly four years from May 1937, Modern Wonder (Modern World from March 1940) was a British weekly magazine, priced at 2d. and aimed at, presumably, boys and young men who were interested in high technology, big machines and vehicles that go really, really fast — sometimes fantastical, but mostly real, if on or near

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