BRITISH AVIATORS
DISPLAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE FIRST OF ITS KIND. (British Official Wireless.) p rcss Ass>ciation—Py Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, October 19. The British air pilots of the Fleet, the Air Force, and the Army, taking off from the aircraft carrier Courageous, yesterday gave a display of formation Hying and aeronautics at Constantinople, where Admiral Sir Frederick Field, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and a squadron of warships are now paying a visit. It was the first of its kind over given for the benefit of a foreign Power. As the final event sixteen machines formed the star and crescent, (the Turkish Hag), and, keeping precise position, Hew in this formation over Constantinople and back to the Courage 0113.
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Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 9
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