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1961
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FLIGHT, 10 August 1961 THE CANOPUS 195 WELCOME STRANGER Four attractive signs on Whitbread houses."The Welcome Stranger" is not strictly aeronautical, but it is near Lympne Airport. As related in the article, the "True Briton" sign has been supplanted THE STARTLED SAINT unveil the inn-sign from the cockpit, as illustrated on this page. I have not yet had occasion to refuel in the West of England, butI understand that excellent facilities are available at The Bristol Bulldog at Filton, and at The Happy Landings at Knowle. Perhapsour oldest aviation inn-sign is at The Air Balloon at Birdlip, Glos; it is said to be connected with a certain Walter Powell who ascendedfrom Malmesbury and was never seen again. There is also an Air Balloon at Bilston, Staffs. London readers will probably know the lovely sign whichdistinguishes The Britannia in Mare Street, Hackney; but why, oh why, aren't there more inn-boards to honour our aircraft, thedesigners, pilots and the RAF and Fleet Air Arm, to say nothing of the civil airlines ? Whilst not wishing to quarrel with the decisionto re-name a Hastings pub The G.I.—with appropriate sign—one thinks of Uxbridge; some years ago this Middlesex town wascelebrated for having twice as many licensed premises in proportion to population as any place in England. Not one of them honourseither aircraft or aircrew, though the majority of the country's "aces" must have passed through what was the RAF's No 1Reception Centre. Readers may point out that on my sorties 1 have overlookedsome particularly relevant targets; but I still await the news that (let us say) The Air Marshal is to be unveiled, with its sign portrayingLord Trenchard; or The Few, with James Brindley Nicolson, vc; or The Lancaster, with Avro's great bomber on one side and GuyGibson on the other. What scope for imaginative brewers—and the artists they commission. The famous "Comet" at Hatfield A Tiger Moth opens "The Tiger Moth" at Rochester
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