Events June 2017

Shuttleworth Season Premiere Ten years after his death, the aviation career of Alex Henshaw was celebrated under sunny skies at Shuttleworth’s superb Season Premiere show on 7 May. The increased use of guest aircraft in Old Warden displays saw the two aircraft types most strongly associated with the great record-breaking, air racing and test pilot well represented: Shuttleworth’s own Percival Mew Gull, G-AEXF — in which Alex broke the Cape record in February 1939 — was joined by David Beale’s