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1948 - 1862.PDF
554 FLIGHT NOVEMBER 4TH, 1948 TECHNICIANS RELAX Highly Successful R.Ae.S. Con- g versagiert&~lit lSou~t Illustrated with " Flight " Photographs MEMORIES of the veryearly days of, flyingwere revived at this year's Royal Aeronautical Society Conversazione, held in the Science Museum, South Kensington, last Friday. Shortly before the beginning of the Society's annual social event, a small ceremony was held at which S/L. R. W. Reeve, D.F.C., A.F.C., M.M., Principal of the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, officially handed over to Mr. M. J. B. Davey, Cur- ator of the Science Museum, the replica of the original Wright biplane which has been built by apprentices of the school, and which has now taken the place of the original Wright, now on its way back to Washington, as recorded in Flight last week. The handing-over ceremony was also attended by Dr. Roxbee Cox, president of the R.Ae.S., and by Capt, J. Laurence Pritchard, the society's secretary, as well as by (Above) Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (right) and Mr. M. J. B. Davey, Curator of the Science Museum, look- ing at the newly installed replica Wright biplane. (Left) The guests gathered beneath the Wright air- craft. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland and Mr. F. T. Hearle. It was particularly appropriate that boys of the D.H. Technical School should build the replica of this famous biplane, fox Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the earliest British pioneers, and his co-director, Mr. Hearle, was associated with him in the building of the very first D.H. biplane in 1909-10. Let it be said at once that if Orville Wright had been alive and could have seen the replica, we feel sure he would have approved the fidelity with which lads of 1948 have copied his biplane of 1903. Another "link with the past" was formed by a series of cinematograph films shown during the evening. Photo- graphically they were open to criticism, due to the fact that the infancy of the art of cinematography was pretty well contemporary with that of flying, and because the speed of taking was then lower than that used nowadays, but his- torically they were fascinating. It must have been instruc- (Left) Mrs. Uwins, Mrs. Wingfhld, Capt Cyril Uwins and Lawrence Wingfield. (bottom Left) Robert Perfect, Mrs. Scott-Hall, Mrs. Perfect and Stewart Scott-Hall. (Below) Lady Fedden, Sir Roy Fedden, Lord Scmpill, Sir Frederick Handley Page and Sir Archibald Rowlands.
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