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Aviators connected with the airport &
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1931 |
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(above) Scott's Croydon to Sidney 1931 |
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(below) TW. 1931 |
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(below) Famous airman. Captain Costes. 30th of May 1931. |
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1935 |
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(below) Herr Robert Kronfeld in his single seat Drone glider
flight across the Channel, from Croydon to Paris, on the 16th
of May 1935. |
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(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. |
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1936 |
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C.W.A.Scott's Flying
Display. 1936. |
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(above) An Airspeed Ferry of 'C.W.A.Scott's Flying Display'. |
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(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) |
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(above and below) Vultee V-1AD Transport 'Lady
Of Peace'. 1936 |
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(above) arrival at Croydon of Tommy Rose after his historical
flight from South Africa in 1936 |
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1937 |
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Croydon-Cape Town-Croydon
1937. |
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(below) a comemorative badge of the flight
to New Zealand and back in 1937 of A.E.Clouston of the RAF. |
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1938 |
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(below) 26th of March 1938 |
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(above) Francis Buss. 1938. |
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1943 |
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(below) A young Australian Melrose flight 1943. |
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