Watercolour of Charles Green's ~Royal Vauxhall
Watercolour of Charles Green's Royal Vauxhall (later known as the Nassau') balloon over the Medway, 7 November 1836. After a flight of some 480 miles lasting 18 hours Green - accompanied by Robert Hollond (MP for Hastings) and Thomas Monck Mason - landed at Weilburg in the Duchy of Nassau, the longest flight that man had accomplished up to that time. [Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection]
Picture No
10843697
Media ID
48048660
Size
2829px x 4000px
(2.0MB)
Credit
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph from The Royal Aeronautical Society Archive
