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Old 28th Jun 2022, 03:10
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India Four Two
 
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Lovely!

That picture immediately reminded me of one of my treasured books “All About Flying” by Gertrude Bacon.*

There is a chapter about early “hydro-aviation” in which she describes flying at Windermere and includes two aerial photos taken from the original Waterbird:




I’m not lending my copy to anyone, but luckily the book is available online as a PDF:

https://ia802209.us.archive.org/2/it...acouoft_bw.pdf


* I have always felt that Flight’s Roger Bacon must have been inspired, as a young lad, by his favourite Aunt Gertrude!

She was a very adventurous, multi-talented women and a prolific author:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bacon

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