The Take-off Was Alright…
by Retro Images Archive
Title
The Take-off Was Alright…
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Retro Images Archive
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Two dozen entries of “magnificent men in their flying machines” lined up for a contest to find the best flying machine in Devon - as part of the North Devon town of Torrington’s Carnival week. All sorts of ingenious apparatus was lined up but few efforts got odd the ground, Second after ‘take-off’ (seen above), Bert Hayes’s Morris-driven ‘Concorde crashed into a wooden and metal shack and burst into flames (below), To the relief of the thousands of spectators, no one was hurt.
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June 8th, 2014
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