“Beaten in the end by fog alone”

VULTURE ROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT To remember the final stages of her grandfather’s round-the-world flight attempt in 1924, Vanessa Ascough made a truly sentimental journey to see the propeller of his Vickers Vulture in the officers’ mess at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, British Columbia Vickers Vulture G-EBGO on the water at Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka. ALL PHOTOS VIA VANESSA ASCOUGH My grandfather, Sqn Ldr Archibald Stuart Charles Stuart-MacLaren OBE MC DFC AFC, was one of the most distinguished and promising RAF officers of his