Papers relating to pioneer flights involving wireless telegraphy

Title

Papers relating to pioneer flights involving wireless telegraphy

Shelfmark

MS. Marconi 332

Summary

Includes:

Wireless Press memoranda about handling news on transatlantic flights (also news on events in Russia), 1919

Press release about the flight of the airship R.38 across the Atlantic, 1921

Press releases about the use of wireless direction finding on the airship Norge 1 on its attempted flight across the North Pole, 1926

Papers about a flight by Major Franco from Spain to South America, and subsequent flights including an attempted world flight during which he was killed, 1926-9

Correspondence and papers about Captain F.T. Courtney's attempted flight across the Atlantic and rescue using wireless, 1927-32

Press releases and cuttings about flights by Major Kingsford-Smith, 1928-31

Correspondence and press cuttings about the attempted transatlantic flight of Majors Idzikowski and Kubala of Poland, ending in a crash in the Azores in which Idzikowski died, 1929

Correspondence and press cuttings about Lieutenant-Commander Glen Kidston's flight to South Africa accompanied by a Marconi radio operator, T.A. Vallette, and Kidson's subsequent fatal crash, 1929-31

Press releases about flights by the airship R.100 using direction finding, 1930

Press cuttings and releases about flights by Mrs. Victor Bruce, 1930-2

Correspondence and papers about Sir Alan Cobham's survey flight to Africa, 1931

Booklet and press cuttings about Captain C.D. Barnard's Aerial Circus, 1931

Telegram and letter from Amy Mollison, née Johnson, in appreciation of the value of her Marconi set during a flight to the Cape and back, 1936

Date

1919-36

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box