EPW037502 ENGLAND. Burnham, five aircraft of the National Aviation Day Display team in flight including G-EBYW, G-ABJC, G-ABBN, G-EBMR and G-ABUL, 1932. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

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In July 1932 Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus payed a visit to Scarborough. This aircraft was landing at the racecourse in fog for the next air show venue when it collided with one of lorries that had delivered the equipment for the Flying Circus. It badly damaged its port lower wing and then ran into a ditch smashing its undercarriage. The aircraft was later repaired on site by Imperial Airways after a new wing was brought in and it flew out a few days later to rejoin the Circus on the south coast of England. The airshow at Scarborough took place on 7th July 1932.

The large aircraft was the 'City of Pretoria' - name just visible on the front of the fuselage. Built by Handley Page at Cricklewood and initially owned by Imperial Airways, it was based at Croydon, in 1926. Here the aircraft has joined Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus. Note the pilot still flies in an open cockpit. City of Pretoria was destroyed in a crash in Malta in 1934

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