Blackpool Aviation Week
Blackpool, UK, October 18th - 24th 1909

• The events
• The venue
• The planes
• The results
• References

Books and magazines:

• Chris Aspin "Dizzy Heights - The Story of Lancashire's First Flying Men" (1987, ISBN 978-0-906881-04-0)

Web resources:

Five-minute video of Rougier and Farman flying at Blackpool (www.britishpathe.com)
The history of the airfield (sites.google.com)

Illustration sources:

The events
(1)  "Flight"
(2)  "La Vie au Grand Air"
(3)  www.britishpathe.com
(4)  "The Aero"
(5)  Postcard (G 79)
(6)  "Icare" No. 222

The venue
(1)  Postcard "The Advance Series", A P. Co. B.
(2)  Postcard (G 79)
(3)  "L'Aérophile"
(4)  "The Illustrated London News"
(5)  "Illustrierte Aeronautische Mitteilungen"

The planes
(1)  Leonard E. Opdycke "French Aeroplanes Before the Great War"
(2)  Postcard (G 79)
(3)  alasvirtuales.blogspot.se
(4)  "The Aero"
(5)  Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg "British Aircraft Before the Great War"
(6)  Unknown
(7)  "Dizzy Heights - The Story of Lancashire's First Flying Men"