Full title reads: Blackpool. Lancashire Aero Club's Successful Aviation Meeting. A V Roe of Manchester. The plucky aviator who uses a biplane of his own design and construction".
Full title reads: Blackpool. Lancashire Aero Club's Successful Aviation Meeting. A V Roe of Manchester. The plucky aviator who uses a biplane of his own design and construction".
Various shots of AV Roe sitting in his triplane.
Intertitle reads: "... Tetard on his biplane".
Tetard sits in his plane preparing for take off.
Intertitle reads: "... Chavez who broke the World's record for altitude in his Bleriot Monoplane".
Shots of George Chavez in plane.
Intertitle reads: "... Drexel, who won the second prize for duration".
Shots of Drexel in plane.
Intertitle reads: "Jones (Robert Lorraine the actor) whose daring flight was a sensation of the meeting".
Shot looking up from ground at Robert Lorraine; actor & aviator; seated in plane.
Intertitle reads: "Grace and his mascot 'Towzer' who never leaves his master, and seems to enjoy the back draught of the propeller"
Side view, Grace in airline. CU Grace's dog & mascot on ground beside airline.
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