HISTORIC ’PLANES
Members of the Royal Aeronautical Society and their guests, including the French Ambassador and many British air pioneers, were gathered together in the Aeronautical Section of the South Kensington Science Museum to hear the Wilbur Wright memorial lecture by Mr. William MacCraeken. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics in the United States. Suspended above the audience were
the two most famous aircraft in the world —the original Wright biplane m which the first power-driven flight was made and the actual machine in which M. Bleriot made his memorable cross-Channel flight. _ Colonel the .Master ot .Sempil , I 1 esident of the Royal Aeronautical-boci-elv. said that the Bleriot machine was being returned to France., and would probably never be seen in England again.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 29
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121HISTORIC ’PLANES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 29
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