Everyone Planing at Plymouth

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

764-1

Date Released

15 Apr 1926

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Moslem Festival
2. 2Northumberland’s Grace Darlings
3. 3Romance of King’s Portrait
4. 4Amundsen’s Polar Airship
5. 5Everyone Planing at Plymouth

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "4,000 people fly in a fortnight including this old lady of 86!." Shot of an old lady wearing a bonnet standing in front of an aeroplane marked ‘Surrey Flight Service Croydon’. Two flyers in cockpit. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "And all these flappers balloted for a parachute descent!". Panning shot of crowd of women. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "The winner Mrs McCarthy". Close shot of her. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "But the weather was adverse so there were stunts instead". Biplane flying with two men standing at each end of the wings; they walk towards the body. Aeroplane on the ground with four men standing in front of it.

Keywords

Aviation; Older people

Length of story (in feet)

64

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