Superb Collection of U.K. Aviation Photos from 1930’s Photos courtesy of Julio Blake Flores, Santiago, Chile
An aerial view of Hatfield, September, 1931.
Aircraft like Handley Page HP.45 G-AAXE, ‘Hengist’, are icons of the land-based planes of Imperial Airways. This example was destroyed in a hangar fire in Karachi, 31 May 1937.
This Fairey Fox I, G-ACXX was to crash during the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race near Palazzo San Gervasio in Italy, killing the crew of Harold D. Gilman and amateur pilot J.K. Baines.
Paramount Sound News camerman films the take off of Lambert Monocoupe 145, NR501W ‘Baby Ruth’, in the Mildenhall to
Melbourne MacRobertson Air Race, 1934.
