Tag Archives: Wills Tobacco Cards
Flying Ship of Francesco Lana de Terzi – Wills’s Aviation #1
History Behind The Card: ‘Flying ship’ of Francesco de Lana Card #1 of 50, W.D.& H.O Wills, Aviation series 1910 Name: Francesco Lana de Terzi, 1631 in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy – February 22, 1687, Brescia, Italy. As an … Continue reading →
Pioneers Of Aviation 
Introduction
Welcome to Pioneers Of Aviation, a blog in which I hope to present to you as factual as possible a history of flight: both lighter-than-air and heavier-than air. This blog will examine history’s first attempts at flight, the mythologies of … Continue reading →