| Main Performers | Sir Alan Cobham
The Hon. Esmond Harmsworth MP,
Rt. Hon. Stanley M Bruce (Prime Minster of Austrlia) - speakers
Carrie Tubb - vocal |
| Orchestra or Band | Band of HM Royal Air Force |
| Conductors | Flight Lieutenant J H Amers |
| Performance Notes | 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.
Lecture included a film screening of his landing in London.
The Managers Register Book mentions that Noakes' sheet was used and cinema pictures were shown from the cinema room in the gallery and that various schools were invited. Flags were hung on the organ gallery and orchestra rails. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1926/69) |