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1935
1935 - 1048.PDF
494 FLIGHT. MAY 9, 1935 Above and on the right are general views of the gathering on the fine Heathrow aerodrome. (Flight photographs THE R.Ae.S. ENTERTAINS Brilliant Flying and a Fine Concourse of Modern Civil and Military Aircraft at the Society's Garden Party r~j~~lHE Clerk of the Weather obviously co-operated with the Royal Aeronautical Society in the holding of its annual Garden Party last Sunday. A sun that seemed unbelievably hot after the grey days of a dull spring blazed on to the gay scene at the Fairey Aviation Company's fine aerodrome at Heathrow, on the Great West Road. Later, coppery cumulus clouds suggested thunder, but the threat never materialised. Rarely has a more representative gathering attended a flying event. For all practical purposes it may be said that everyone who is anybody in British Aviation was present. The President of the Society, Lt. Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, received the visitors in a special enclosure provided for the occasion, and few were the well-known personalities not seen at one time or another in the en closure or among the many aircraft lined up for inspection. Lord Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, and Lt. Col. F. C. Shelmerdine, Director-General of Civil Aviation, were among the Air Ministry representatives present. The R.A.F. and the industry were very fully represented, as was also aeronautical research. Foreign Air Attaches added that touch of international good will without which no big air event is complete, and several foreign air line operators were noted among the multitude, including Mr. A. Plesman, of the K.L.M., and Capt. Carl Florman, of the Swedish Air Lines. At least one foreign aircraft con structor had taken the opportunity to inspect our latest types—Mr. Frederick Koolhoven (if, indeed, he can be classed as foreign). Altogether it is a very long time since we have seen so many notable people gathered to gether at an aviation event, and the R.Ae.S. is to be con gratulated on the success of its first outdoor gathering of the year. One's chief reaction to the wonderful cancours of aircraft at Heathrow was a feeling of regret that the non-aeronautical public was not able to enter the aerodrome and whet its curiosity about aeroplanes at close quarters; but, of course, (Below) A section of the long line of machines on exhibition. In the foreground is the B.A.C. "Drone," then a Spartan "Cruiser," a Railway Air Services D.H.86, the K.L.M. Douglas D.C.2, and others. (Flight photograph.) At the reception : Lt. Col. J. T. Soviet Ambassador and his wife. C. Moore-Brabazon, president of On the right is Mr. C. R. Fairey. the R.Ae.S., with the (Flight photograph.)
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