Item title reads: "Air service to India daily soon!. Captain Hinchcliffe - piloting new Havilland for Cairo - Karachi service - leaves with 7 passengers, including 5 women."
Croydon, London
M/S of passengers, men and women, boarding an aircraft, a three engined De Havilland DH.66 Hercules....
Item title reads: "Air service to India daily soon!. Captain Hinchcliffe - piloting new Havilland for Cairo - Karachi service - leaves with 7 passengers, including 5 women."
Croydon, London
M/S of passengers, men and women, boarding an aircraft, a three engined De Havilland DH.66 Hercules. Some pose before boarding. There are small steps by the door of the aircraft, which has Imperial Airways on it. It taxis across the airfield, and takes off.
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The pilot's full name is Captain Walter Hinchcliffe.
Imperial Airways was an early British commercial air transport company.
The plane being flown is a de Havilland DH.66 Hercules, Registration Number G-EBMZ.