A collection of press photographs documenting the golden age of French aviation. Spanning from the earliest powered flights of 1908 through to the interwar pioneers of the late 1920s, these images capture the aircraft, the aviators, and the airfields that defined a generation of flight.

The collection features the great names of early French aviation — Farman, Breguet, Nieuport, SPAD, Caudron, Voisin, and Blériot — alongside celebrated aviators including Charles Nungesser, René Fonck, Louis Paulhan, and Léon Delagrange. Locations range from the military airfield at Issy-les-Moulineaux and the air races at Reims to Le Bourget and Port-Aviation.

Subjects include experimental biplanes, military observation aircraft, seaplanes and hydravions, air race competitors, and the ambitious long-distance machines of the 1920s. Every image has been digitised at extremely high resolution from original glass plates and period prints.