Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Ea... by Hales-Dutton, Bruce Hardback

Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Early Adventures of Powered Flight in the UK. From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. There were balloon flights at Hendon from 1862, although attempts at powered flights from the area later used as the famous airfield, do not seem to have been particularly successful.

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