| Main Performers | Sir Alan Cobham - speaker |
| Performance Notes | 'The description of his journeys will be illustrated by some 150 photographs and by permission of the Air Council the band of the Royal Air Force will play before and during an interval in the lectures'.
(The Times, 10 November 1926)
On 30 June 1926, Alan Cobham flew from Britain (from the River Medway) to Australia where 60,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport, Melbourne when he landed his DH.50 float plane (it had been converted to a wheeled undercarriage earlier, at Darwin).
During the flight to Australia, Sir Alan J. Cobham's engineer of the D.H.50 aircraft, Mr. Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after leaving Bagdad (5 July 1926). The return flight was undertaken over the same route. He was knighted the same year. |