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1938
1938 - 1310.PDF
45' FLIGHT. MAY 12, 1938. ""'•'. ""» ^ • - ' -< , •• Flight" vholoaravhs. (Left) Reception : Mr. Griffith Brewer, veteran R.Ae.S. member and still a private-owner pilot, welcomed by the Vice-President, Mr. F. Handley Page, and Mrs. Handley Page. (Above) A general view. THE R.Ae.$. GARDEN PART' A Still Bigger and Better Affair at Fairey's Aerodrome : Widely Assorted Civil a YEAR by year the Royal Aeronautical Society'sGarden Party—last Sunday's was the fourth—becomes less and less of a garden party and more and more of a flying display on the grand scale. True, an official reception, a very nicely served tea, and a (theoretically) restricted entree are retained. But May has proved so fickle at the Great West Aerodrome during recent years that garden-party frocks are at a discount; escorts seem to prefer green Tyrolean pork-pies to toppers : and even the band appears to have thrown up Sullivan in favour of Cole Porter. Not that the annual curtain-raiser to the flying season has suffered one whit by this onslaught of informality. It is accepted that everybody comes to see the newest and best in British aviation, civil and military, to meet old friends, and to enjoy himself or herself generally. Among the 4,000-odd guests were the Secretary of State for Air, Lord Swinton; ambassadors, ministers, charges • Flight " photograph* All in the picture : Westland Lysander over Vickers Wellington, and Bristol Blenheim over Fairey P.4/34.
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