Aviators connected with the airport & Croydon

 Page Two

 1931

 (above) Scott's Croydon to Sidney 1931

 (below) TW. 1931

 

(below) Famous airman. Captain Costes. 30th of May 1931. 

 

1935

 (below) Herr Robert Kronfeld in his single seat Drone glider flight across the Channel, from Croydon to Paris, on the 16th of May 1935.

 

 (below) 4th of October 1935. Campbell Black and his co-pilot Mr McArthur, who were saved by their parachutes when their plane crashed in flames in Egypt, during their record attempt to Cape Town and back, arrived back at Croydon in an Imperial Air Liner today. They are showing their parachutes to Mrs Florence Desmond, On the left is Mr Phil Nicholaon the sponsor of the flight.

 1936

C.W.A.Scott's Flying Display. 1936.

 (above) An Airspeed Ferry of 'C.W.A.Scott's Flying Display'.

 (below) A Tiger Moth G-AOWG of 'C.W.A.Scott's Flying Display'. (bottom) Pou de Ciel G-AEFK (with Bassett's liqourice allsorts advert on the tail)

 

 (above and below) Vultee V-1AD Transport 'Lady Of Peace'. 1936

 (above) arrival at Croydon of Tommy Rose after his historical flight from South Africa in 1936

1937 

 (below) Croydon-Cape Town-Croydon 1937.

  (below) a comemorative badge of the flight to New Zealand and back in 1937 of A.E.Clouston of the RAF.

1938 

 (below) 26th of March 1938

 

 (above) Francis Buss. 1938.

 1943

 (below) A young Australian Melrose flight 1943.