Astra-Torres airship
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The Astra-Torres airships were non-rigid airships built by Société Astra in France between about 1908 and 1922 to a design by the Spaniard Leonardo Torres Quevedo. They had a highly characteristic tri
Astra-Torres AT-1 at an air show in 1911
Neville Usborne
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Neville Usborne was a British naval officer who played a prominent part in British military lighter-than-air aviation before the First World War. He was involved with the construction of the first Bri
Usborne in the gondola of the airship Beta II, 1913
H.M.A.3 in the shed at Kingsnorth, painted by his father-in-law Vereker Hamilton