BY PLANE TO DINNER
AEROBATICS IN AN AIR “ TAXI ” LONDON, May 25. A party of 250 men and women travel experts were picked up by car outside the offices of the Air Union, Haymarket, yesterday and conveyed to Croydon Aerodrome, and thence v by aeroplane were taken to Hanworth, where they were entertained at dinner.
On arrival at Hanworth they saw half an hour’s “ stunt ” flying by Captain Schofield, who assisted England in recovering- the Schneider Trophy. It was the first time that such flying had been performed in an ordinary air “ taxi,” or covered aeroplane.
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Evening Star, Issue 20539, 18 July 1930, Page 9
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96BY PLANE TO DINNER Evening Star, Issue 20539, 18 July 1930, Page 9
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