The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The gondola of a US Navy (USN) airship which is tethered to the ground at Cuers airfield, near Toulon in southern France. Visible at left is one of the airship's two engines, with its propeller. In the window next to it, one of the airship's crew can be seen sitting inside the gondola. In the foreground, three US Army Air Force (USAAF) servicemen (left) and two USN servicemen (right) are standing talking and looking at the gondola. A number of sandbags are attached to the base of the airship to help keep it on the ground. (Donor M. Johnson)
The gondola of a US Navy (USN) airship which is tethered to the ground at Cuers airfield, near Touon in southern France. Visible at left is one of the airship's two engines, with its propeller. A numb
A US Navy (USN) airship tethered to a tall pole at Cuers airfield in southern France. Beneath the airship is the gondola in which its crew travels and to which its two engines, one on each side, are a
A US Navy (USN) airship tethered to a tall pole (at right) at Cuers airfield in Southern France. Beneath the airship is the gondola in which its crew travels and to which its engines are attached. (Do
View over a vineyard in the area of Toulon, France, towards a US Navy (USN) airship hovering above the ground in the distance. (Donor M. Johnson)
England. c. 1914. A group of men, including civilians and probably members of the Royal Naval Air Service, gather around a gondola which is tethered and anchored to the ground below an observation bal
Three Rolls Royce Kestrel engines (the predecessor to the Merlin) fitted to engine stands in a maintenance facility at Richmond air base, NSW. The propeller splines on the front of the engines have th
