BRITISH AIR FORCE
THRILLS AT HENDON REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATIONS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 29. Flying Officer H. Williams gave 600,* 000 spectators at the Hendon Air Force display an unintended thrill when, in burlesquing a beginner’s flight and demonstrating how not to fly, the machine stalled and crashed. Williams climbed from the wreckage uninjured. Some of the world’s fastest plane# and finest pilots participated in amazing aerobatics, including dives at 400 mues an hour by a pilot who described to the crowd by radio the manoeuvres as he swept down, aerial drill with the precision of guards on parade, mass parachute drops, and,upside down flying. The ground exhibition comprised the most modern service planes, including the “ Queen Bee.” Men and women bearing banners irt scribed “No more war. The Air ,Force pageant is a rehearsal for tragedy.”' marched among the outside the aerodrome shouting: “ Millions for wa? means millions of murders.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 8
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151BRITISH AIR FORCE Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 8
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