BelgianAviationNews

2015-07-29

Video: "London - Belgium Air Race Using Rfc Bombers (1910-1919)"

London - Belgium Air Race Using Rfc Bombers (1910-1919)

by British Pathé

London - Belgium air Race using Royal Flying Corps bombers.

Shots of soldiers lifting bags of mail. MS 4 of the guys pose together. CU mailbag marked 'Brussels via Ghent'. CUs 2 airmen w/ stack of bags. Group pose holding small sign: 'Aircraft Transport and Travel; Ltd.; Belgian Service' They carry the bags past long building.

Several Royal Flying Corps biplanes sitting outside in snow; crew starting plane; man turning the prop. MS pilot seated in cockpit; the same sign in previous shot on side of plane. MLS aeroplane taking off. Aeroplane in sky. Shots of aeroplanes flying over, taking off. 1910s. (The RFC became the RAF in 1918; so this must be earlier; not certain if it is during World War One or a bit before.) British; military; cargo
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Video: "London - Belgium Air Mail And Transport Plane (1920-1929)"

London - Belgium Air Mail And Transport Plane (1920-1929)

by British Pathé

London - Belgium air mail and transport plane.

Aviation; commercial. Early passenger aeroplanes and mail plane; 1920s? England/Belgium air mail plane: Loading mail bags onto aeroplane; Shot of a line of men holding bags standing in front of a bi-plane. The first man in line hands his bag to another man who packs it in the aeroplane; Ghent printed on bags. CU 2 men on ground by aeroplane; pilot in cockpit; one man hands up papers; pilot signs document. Plane starts to move. Shot from behind; aeroplane taxis away.

A few men & women seeing off a friend who is boarding aeroplane; she climbs ladder to enter plane. Man helps to raise windows by passenger seat (seat is directly behind pilot; not inside body of aeroplane); the woman passenger wears cap pulled down; goggles; etc. Next; another plane (Airco Deluxe ?). Two passengers climb small ladder to enter aeroplane. They sit at table; smoking; talking. One picks up deck of cards.

CU 2 other passengers; one banging on typewriter...