
Vintage Photographs
All the photographs in the Royal Aero Club Collection that relate to the pioneering years of aviation (before the First World War) have been separately identified and uploaded to the Google Photos website, where they are available for viewing.
These images of pioneering aviators and early aircraft have been broadly categorised by topic, to facilitate browsing. However, many images are of unknown 'planes, people, and places. Please help with their identification, by sharing your comments in the comment box provided by Google Photos.
Click on the links below to view each photo album.
Portraits – Unidentified
Military Matters
Aeroplanes – Identified
Mrs Buller
Pilots-Identified
Lewis Turner
Annular Wing
Manchester 1910
Portraits – Identified
Starting/Finishing Line
Sunset Flying
Hydro-Aeroplanes
Visitors to Hendon
Distinctive Writing
Green back/ Blue Writing
Dirigibles
Grahame-White at Olympia
Claude Grahame-White
Bournemouth Aviation Meeting
Etches
Aeroplane in Flight (Europe?)
Four-Bladed Propeller
Aviation Grenoble 6th-8th May 1911
Charabanc
Head Wounds
People – currently both identified and Unidentified
Baroness Schenk
Paris Air Race
Stereo
Crashes
Curly "Kodak"
Flying at Hendon Series
Aeroplanes in Flight – Identified
Queen Alexandrea at Hendon
Halifax Zoo Flight
Marcel Desoutter (1894 - 1952)
George Bernard Shaw at Hendon
Aerial Derby 1913
L'Aviazione in Italia c.1910
Paris Race (French)
Ballooning
London - Manchester - London Air Race
Kites and Gliders
Aeroplane Wright
Silver Dart
Life Jackets
Cody
Eastchurch
William Newell – Parachutist
Medallion Man
Aerial Derby 1912
Aerial Derby 1914
Places
French text
Aerial Fete
Grahame-White School
Naval & Military Day at Hendon
Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve
Photo No. X
Vaudeville Artists Day
Aeroplanes – Unidentified
Air Mail
Night Flying at Hendon
Funerals
London Aerodrome, Hendon
Pilots – Unidentified
Doncaster Aviation Meeting
Blackpool Aviation Week
Aeroplanes In Flight – Unidentified
Aerial Views - currently both Identified and Unidentified