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
The Royal Naval Air Service was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the
Personnel of No 1 Squadron RNAS in late 1914
Commander C. Samson of the RNAS takes off from HMS Hibernia in his modified Shorts S.38 “hydro-aeroplane” to be the first pilot to take off from a ship underway at sea - 9 May 1912.
Sopwith Triplanes from No. 1 (Naval) Squadron, in Bailleul, France. The aircraft nearest the camera (N5454) was primarily flown by ace Richard Minifie.
RNAS officer dropping a bomb from a SSZ class airship during the First World War.