Sir Alan Cobham climbing out of a De Havilland D. H. 50 at Croydon Airport on 17th March

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Sir Alan Cobham climbing out of a De Havilland D. H. 50 at Croydon Airport on 17th March

Sir Alan Cobham climbing out of a De Havilland D.H.50 at Croydon Airport on 17th March 1925.
He had returned from a trip of 17, 000 miles with Sir Sefton Brancker, the Director of Civil Aviation that had taken them close to four months.
The Director had gone to India to report on the possibility of establishing facilities for Airships.
Cobham was shocked to learn that he was to travel by sea, because of Government budgetary constraints, and so the aviator raised the finances to enable him to be flown instead.
They left Stag Lane aerodrome in North London on 20th November 1924, travelled through Europe at a leisurely pace before arriving in Karachi at the end of the year. After India, Brancker decided to go on to Rangoon, Burma from where the return journey commenced on 28th February. 4science - Academic / Education - 25/02/2010

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