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1939
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MAY 18, 1939 fflj@SR 521 THE R.Ae.S. GARDEN PARTY Fine Flying and Nezv Aeroplanes Win Appreciation from a Gamp- and-Galoshes Gallery (Illustrated with "Flight" Fholographs) TPHE Royal Aeronautical Society, like -*• a small boy with an uncomfortable realisation that his innocently ignited squib is well on the way to causing a major conflagration, is getting worried about the success of its annual garden party. Not that there are any doubts about Fairey's aerodrome during one of the less moist intervals. (Below) Two con trasting types, both in appearance and age—the Boulton Paul Defiant and the Fairey Firefly, flown respectively by Fit. Lt.C.Feather and Fit. Lt. C. S.Staniland figure would very quickly have reached 10,000 had not Capt. Laurence Pritchard and his henchmen firmly stemmed the tide. ' ' '. So next year, it seems, an effort will be made to restrict the party to its original conception—as a semi-informal but intimate gathering where R.Ae.S. members and their friends may meet, toy with a teaspoon and perchance appraise some device for the advancement of aeronautical science. . . The alternative would be to make the party a free-for-all—or, at any rate, a one-and-tbreepence for all, with public enclosures to accommodate the thousands who . would undoubtedly flock there. But that raises all sorts of problems— approach roads, public liability, insur ance, entertainments tax, Sunday amuse ments and all the rest—not to mention the thought of Mr. C. R. Fairey's truly magnificent aerodrome forming the bed the success ; the trouble is that there is iar too much. Year by year—this was the fifth party of the series—construc tors have become so enthusiastic that they have put forward their newest and "nest aircraft for demonstration by their most expert pilots ; the Air Ministry has given its wholehearted support; and everybody who is anybody in aviation, along with a good many thousand who are not, has naturally clamoured for admission. Tickets are still "obtainable only through members of the R.Ae.S." But that did not affect the fact that, for last fmnday's party, some 6,500 tickets were sow ; and applications indicated that the
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