Perhaps the Alcock and Brown statue could be displayed more prominently at Heathrow when its returns?

Reportedly a big set of celebrations are being held in Eire where Alcock and Brown arrived in their Vimy…the sculpture of them on loan from Heathrow has been shipped to Clifden, Co.Galway for the events.
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/201…tenary-flight/

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I would think that the Imperial/B.A. Ltd ‘Armada’ p ositioned into Croydon from Whitchurch, Ian. There is of course the famous shot of DDL, Sabena and KLM typestogether in orange overall (at Schiphol, perhaps…boy I’d like to get a decent scan or print of that!). And Aer Lingus’ sole DC-3 EI-ACA was delivered through Shoreham in overall orange in 1940. And from a slightly faded Dutch slide https://www.flickr.com/photos/827078…30568/sizes/l/

Well the 100th anniversary of the crossing in hops by the US Navy’s Curtiss NC-4 to Lisbon and Plymouth has been and gone in May…a planned commemorative crossing by 3 Grumman Albatrosses was cancelled some months ago after one of them sank last year. I believe there was some celebration at Rockaway, Long Island (the starting point)? Don’t know if anything is planned to commemorate Alcock and Brown’s flight…NC-4 at Plymouth [ATTACH=JSON]{“alt”:”Click image for larger version Name:tNC-4-Plymouth.jpg Views:t0 Size:t228.5 KB ID:t3865349″,”data-align”:”none”,”data-attachmentid”:”3865349″,”data-size”:”full”}[/ATTACH]

Presumably the remaining two HP42s were Heracles and Hanno? Various photos of the evacuated fleet at Whitchurch when war broke out
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There was an airlift of munitions from the Gloster factory at Brockworth (presumably just before France fell)…the photo shows 1x Scylla class, 1x Ensign and 2xHP.42 all camouflaged with civil registrations. [ATTACH=JSON]{“data-align”:”none”,”data-size”:”full”,”data-attachmentid”:3865044}[/ATTACH]

Ian… I would say A.I.D. is the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate which monitored the quality of Government purchases…Duggy P.E.I. presumably Prince Edward Island off Canada.

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