Early Aviation : the Pioneering Years (Royal Aeronautical Society Archive)

A classic collection of over 400 different photographs and other illustrations of early aircraft, airships and gliders which have been digitally imaged from original glass plate negatives / lantern slides in the Society's extensive photographic archive. The CD-ROM visually traces the development of aviation from Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage of 1843 through to the various Sopwith aircraft designs of the First World War and includes many rare photographs of the aircraft designs of Maxim, Lee-Richards, Bleriot, Claude Grahame-White, Dunne amongst other pioneers. A large range of early airship designs are also included.