Picture No | 11806509 |
Date | 1927 |
Description | Welcoming Captain Lindbergh at Aero Club Dinner by Hynes |
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Caricatures of members of the Aero Club giving a dinner for Captain Charles Lindbergh following his record-breaking trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927. From left, Sir Philip Sassoon, Lt.-Com. Mackenzie Grieve, Hawker's navigator on his unsuccessful transatlantic flight, T. N. Stack, who flew to India in a Moth, Captain Lindbergh, Mr Harry Preston, Lord Thomson, ex-Minister for Air, Captain H. S. Broad, who won the King's Cup of 1926, Mr F. Handley Page, Captain F. T. Courtney, the well-known test pilot who was prominently associated with helicopter experiments, Sir Alan Cobham, Sir Hugh Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker and Baron E. K. Palmstierna, the Swedish Ambassador.
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Source | Illustration by Hynes for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 11 June 1927 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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