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Old 10th Feb 2014, 06:12
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Hard to search effectively for photos in the FLIGHT online archive. You can find masses of full page ads for the Princess easily enough, but to do a half decent search you need to go to the nearest archive you can find that holds hard copies of FLIGHT and THE AEROPLANE . Then look through the issues for 1952-3.

Geoffrey Tyson did a magnificent job at Farnborough bringing the mighty flying galleon down low along the runway. Incidentally, somewhere there is a glorious photo of him in the 30s flying a Tiger Moth at low level. The camera catches him a moment before he picks up a handkerchief lying in the short grass . He has a wire on his wingtip to enable this stunt.

When demonstrating the SRA1 jet powered flying boat sometimes he would fly at dot feet. Inverted.

Que hombre!
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