Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

heading off to the races, Paris, 1908

from http://postaletrice.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-da-en-las-carreras.html via http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

motorized sled from the 1911 South Pole expedition of the Terra Nova

One of the three Wolseley motor sledges built for the Terra Nova Expeditionfound on http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Monday, July 18, 2011

102 yr old Bleriot designed aircraft with a 100 yr old engine flys for the first time

 Experimmental Aviation Assoiciation enthuisiasts decided to undergo 1000's of hours to build an aircraft to the design specs planned out 102 years ago. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/flying-a-102-year-old-design-for-the-first-time/#more-36045and the source of their story: http://eaa.org/news/2011/2011-06-06_bleriot.asp which has the full uncondensed storyEAA’s project also commemorates the