observationballoons

2 photos tagged observationballoons, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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Do you know your "Schüte-Lanz" from your "Astra Torres"?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    1915, price 2d

    collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I'd not heard of Schütte-Lanz airships before - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sch%C3%BCtte-Lanz_airships
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel 1915, thank you.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! A 1914 postcard (with a message in German on the back) of a Schütte-Lanz airship bombing Warsaw, via Neil Ennis
  • Swordscookie said:
    The German aircraft were so much more elegant than their British counterparts! The British planes illustrated here really do look like "stringbags".

Supports going up after battle to relieve the front trenches, note the three observation balloons above the bright cloud

from National Science and Media Museum

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  • Diogo Sallaberry said:
    uou! great shot! I'd like to see the whole colection!
  • Dеlίсίσưѕ [ D . LO ] said:
    liked the refliction
  • Andy Wilkes said:
    Brave, brave men.

    'We will remember them'
  • billtait123 billtait123 said:
    thanks grandads ....
  • Nikki said:
    this is beautiful