New pages: The July-August 1910 Blackpool Flying Carnival!

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New pages: The July-August 1910 Blackpool Flying Carnival!

Postby Anders » Sun Aug 30, 2020 2:42 pm

The Blackpool Flying Carnival was a unique meeting - a national meeting consisting of two six-day competitive events with eleven non-competitive days of exhibition flights inbetween. The biggest names were Claude Grahame-White, Géo Chávez and Bartolomeo Cattaneo.

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The meeting was badly hit by hard winds from the Irish Sea and ended with disastrous losses, which put an end to the Lancashire Aero Club's ambitions to establish a permanent airfield on the site.

You will find the pages here!

Anders

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