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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 0596.PDF
FLIGHT W/C. R. P. Beamont addresses the crowd at the Martin airfield on the occasion of his Canberra demonstration. With him are Governor McKeldin of Maryland; M. J. Birmingham, Commissioner of Baltimore County; C. C. Ptarson, Martin president; H. D. Fazakerley, acting British Consul; and S/L Callard. Below, Beamont (right) compares notes with C. C. Pearson and 0. £. (Pot) Tibbs, Martin flight director. BALTIMORE Above: Sgt. S. W. Smith, an armament fitter, gives a small visitor a better look at the Canberra, as F/S. W. C. S/ode, electrical fitter, "sells" Britain's pre-eminent light bomber, to be built by Martin. Above, Glenn L. Martin, chairman of his company, welcomes S/L A. £. Callard, D.F.C., to Martin airport a few days after Callard's transatlantic crossing in 4 hr 40 min. With htm is C. C. Pearson, and, to Callard's left, F/L A. J. R- Robson, D.F.C., signaller, F/L. £. A. J. Haskett, navigator, and WJC. Beamont, D.S.O., D.F.C Pan of a crowd of nearly 20,000, composed of Mar- tin employees, their families and guests, is seen on the left. Several hundred civic and business leaders of Maryland joined the Martin personnel in watch- ing one of Beamont s classic performances.
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