Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer 1931
Model of Wright Biplane, scale 1:10, type A, unmarked. Used at Le Mans, with starting derrick and rail Model of Wright Type A Biplane
Metropolitan-Vickers F 2/4 Beryl turbojet, c. 1945, serial no. MV 34 Metropolitan-Vickers F 2/4 Beryl turbojet
Russian injection-moulded plastic kit model of Science Museum's Supermarine S.6B Aircraft (1:72nd scale, unassembled) Russian injection-moulded plastic kit model of Science Museum's Supermarine S.6B Aircraft 1995
Wooden, laminated, two blade propeller, by Robert Beney & Co., London, England, 1910-1911, for the Harold Hume Piffard Aeroplane E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, 1910 Wooden, laminated, two blade propeller, for the Harold Hume Piffard Aeroplane E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp)
E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, (incomplete), E. N. V. Motor Syndicate Limited, Willesden, Middlesex, England, 1910-1911. The engine’s cast-iron cylinders machined inside and out, have electrically deposited copper water jackets. The crankshaft is supported in six ball-bearings, with a double thrust race at the propeller end to take thrust in both directions. The side valves are operated by a hollow camshaft working through hardened steel balls at the bottom of each tappet. Lubrication is forced fed by a pump actuated by an eccentric on the crankshaft. Used in 1910, by Harold Hume Piffard, when he flew his flies 'Humming Bird' aircraft from Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, Sussex, England. E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp)
Sectioned Armstrong-Siddeley 400 H.P. "Jaguar" Aero engine mounted on stand, 7/762/1, by Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited, Coventry, Wawrickshire, England, 1924 Armstrong Siddeley 'Jaguar' Engine 1924
Test pilot's partial-pressure flying helmet, Type D, s/n 345444, by G.Q. Parachute Co Ltd. October 1957. In carrying case, with four spare vizors. Test pilot's partial-pressure flying helmet 1957
Boiler, for horizontal single cylinder-slide valve steam engine, by John Stringfellow, Chard, Somerset, England, 1847-1848. John Stringfellow made the boiler for a William Henson designed ten-foot wing-span model aircraft. Boiler for Stringfellow's 1847-8 Flying Machine 1847-1848
One snuff box, wood, painted to represent tortoiseshell, rectangular 3 3/4" x 1 7/8". Painted lid "Montgolfier at Annonay, 5th June 1783". One snuff box 1783-1800
40 H.P. Darracq 4-cylinder horizontal aero engine, 1909. 40 H.P. Darracq 4-cylinder horizontal aero engine 1909
One snuff box, tortoiseshell, 3", circular, gold-lined, showing Charles & Robert ascent over Tuileries. One snuff box
Rolls-Royce RB211-22 turbofan engine s/n 10006, 1970 Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan aero engine, 1970. 1970
Model. De Havilland "Comet" Aeroplane 'Grovenor House' (won London-Melbourne Race, 1934), scale 1:24. Model of de Havilland DH.88 Comet 1934