farnborough

This picture is at the Farnborough air show in September 1974 after setting the New York to London air speed record. Note the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod displaying in the back ground. Info from Joe Baugher's website. Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird MSN 2023. Set New York to London record of 1 hr 54 min 56.4 sec Sept 1, 1974. Set Los Angeles to Washington, DC record of 1 hr 4 min 20 sec, west to east coast in 1 hr 7 min 54 sec. Reported Summer 2008 at NASM, Udvar-Hazy Center. NASM claims that their plane actually has serial number 64-17972.

daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/far2.html has pictures by the same photographer (Mays of Aldershot) of airships at Aldershot and Farnborough. Aldershot [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldershot] and Farnborough [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnborough,_Hampshire] are close together in southeastern England, in the northeast of Hampshire, near the border with Surrey (~35 miles southwest of London)

Just noticed that an enthusiast put the Bain airship photos up on Flickr (in 2005). See, for example, www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/6182473349/.

And the (UK) Imperial War Museum has many such pictures. See www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192495

LOC: note typo in transcription of airship name "Parseval"
In this copy, Bain has redacted the source info, May & Co.'s postcard 300.
The unredacted photo is reproduced by Flickr user DesertBlooms here:
flic.kr/p/aLtzFD
Part of postcard series elsewhere in Bain Collection of pre WWI British airplanes and airships.




And here's some motion picture footage:
www.britishpathe.com/video/airships-earliest-days-aka-air...

Parseval was the name of the designer, and there were 22 such ships built. This one could be the PL-18 No. 4
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parseval_airships#PL_18_-_No.4

The biplane at front right, No. 235 is identified as a BE.2a here: www.ukserials.com/serials-older-000.htm It is a Royal Aircraft Factory (Blériot Experimental) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_B.E.2

artolog, Thank you very much for such in depth digging about the airship and the accompanying plane - and for providing great citations. We'll add more identifying information when we update this record.