Royal Aeronautical Society Gallery

Man riding on a steam rocket

The Flight of Intellect. A comic image of a thin man riding on a steam rocket, with his top hat flying off behind him. Portrait of Mr Golightly experimenting on Mess Quick & Speed's new patent high pressure Steam Riding Rocket.
circa 1828

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1820s, 1828, Air, Comic, Experimenting, Flight, Flying, Golightly, Hat, High, Humour, Intellect, Lampoon, Man, Mr, New, Patent, Pressure, Quick, Riding, Rocket, Satire, Satirical, Speed, Steam, Thin, Top, Transport, Transportation

Western Airways Ltd Poster

Poster, Norman Edgar Western Airways Ltd, Bristol to Cardiff Air Express, 15 minutes, 9 shillings and sixpence single fare. Connections from Bristol by air to Liverpool, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Brighton, Isle of Wight and Channel Islands. Air Taxis -- see your city from the air.
20th century

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Mr. Cockings Parachute

Poster for The Casket July 29 1837 advertising A History of Parachutes recording a full description of Mr. Cocking's Parachute, and of its Ascent, and all the Particulars of its Disastrous Descent, and Mr. Charles Green's Account of the Voyage and many facts relative to Mr. Cocking not published before. Date: 1837

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