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Old 8th Jul 2001, 01:45
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Lew Ton
 
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There are some photos of the Mew Gull at Old Warden taken by me during the de Havilland Moth Club Charity Weekend 23/24 June on my web site. It's a bit slippery to photograph!

The aircraft is now owned by Desmond Penrose, who use to be a de Havilland test pilot. This is the aircraft flown by Alex Henshaw to the Cape and back in 1939 in 4 days 10 hours 16 minutes.

Amazingly, the aircraft was sold in France soon after and survived the 1939-45 war in storage and was flown to the UK in 1950.

I should be seeing Desmond next weekend and I'll show him your e-mail.


Steve
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