Lebaudy Airship in Field
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- For additional views of the Lebaudy Airship see SIA2011-0956 and SIA2011-0957.
- Le Jaune - Built by Lebaudy Frères in France, first flight: 1902-11-13. Lebaudy built many other semi-rigid airships, among them the Patrie and the République.
- See "Lighter-Than-Air: An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships" a publication on airships by an aernautical historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Tom D.Crouch.
- Summary
- A full view of a Lebaudy Airship, a semi-rigid airship, in an open field with people on the ground. Two others are standing on a suspended platform from the airship. The first experimental Lebaudy airship was built in 1902.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 54, Folder: 9E
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- c. 1903
- Standard number
- SIA2011-0955 or AI 6033
- Subject
- Lebaudy Air Ship
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 10w x 8 1/8h ; Type of Image: Object ; Medium: Photographic Print
- Place
- France
- Topic
- Hot air balloons
- Flight
- Crowds
- Balloons
- Aeronautics
- Airships
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12866
