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Aero Club’s headquarters at ‘Mussel Manor’. Standing from left to right, are the owner of ‘Mussel Manor’, Oswald, Horace and Eustace Short, Frank McClean, Griffith Brewer, Frank Hedges Butler and Dr. Lockyear of the Aero Club, and Warwick Wright, another pioneer aircraft constructor. Seated are J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon. Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles Rolls.
On 8 July 1908 Mme Thérĕse Peltier became the first woman passenger in an aeroplane, by flying with Léon Delagrange at Milan.
Rheims August 1909
Boeing 707
Boeing 707
Dave Kilbourne’s cylindrical Rogallo with cable bowed leading edges
Blackburn B2 & DH Tiger Moth
Boeing 747 & Boeing 727
Pilot – Bill Bennet
WW1 – a Fokker brings down a Voisin

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