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Including fine photos of pilots just landed or being cheered on their return after finishing a record breaking trip. I.a. Tommy Rose (record holder London-Capetown and back, and a photo of him after his victory in the King's Cup Air Race 1935); C.W.A. Scott and Giles Guthrie (winners of the Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race); Lord Sempill, Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham (great flight round Africa); H.L. Brook (record holder Australia-England in 1935); E.H. Fielden (the first Captain of the King's Flight); Commanders Sherren and E.G. Hilton (both killed in an accident during the King's Cup Air Race in 1937) and several photographs of Campbell Black and J.H. Macarthur (showing the parachutes which saved their lives when they crashed in Egypt during their record flight to Cape Town and back in 1935). Some famous passengers: prime minister Mac Donald, King George V and Queen at Empire Air Display, King George stepping out of his plane at Mildenhall, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Sir John Simon (foreign secretary under Ramsey Mac Donald), Sir Frederick Handley Page (of the Handley Page factory), Mr Miles and Whitnet Straight (of the Miles Whitney Straight aeroplane) and the Duke and the Duchess of York on entering an Imperial Airways liner (the first flight of the Duchess).