Baby Aeroplane - The Inventor Claims That This All Metal Machine is as Easy to Manage as a Motor Car

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

993

Date Released

27 Sep 1920

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Baby Aeroplane - The Inventor Claims That This All Metal Machine is as Easy to Manage as a Motor Car
2. 2Diamond Polishing. Demonstration of Cutting and Polishing by Disabled Ex-Servicemen at Oppenheimer Diamond Works, Brighton.
3. 3Out of the Deep - Two Large Conger Eels Caught by a Diver in a Sunken Wreck
4. 4France’s New President - M Millerand to Become Head of French Republic
5. 5Ancient Order of Druids - Present Another Bed, Making 8 in All, to Battersea General Hospital. The Money is Raised by Collecting Tin Foil
6. 6Harnessing the Mississippi. Water Power Used for World’s Largest Hydro-Electric Generating Station
7. 7Salvage Lighter Breaks Her Moorings and Runs Ashore on Grid Near Dover

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Summary

Sections of bi-plane being unloaded from lorry and being assembled. Miniature of plane manoeuvred into position next to full sized bi-plane to show difference in size. Inventor Pischoff gets into plane; plane takes off; in flight.

Keywords

Aviation; Aircraft; Inventions and discoveries

Library number GR

4180

Length of story (in feet)

54

Story extras:

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