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Above: This aerial view of Cranwell's 1937 Empire Air Day demonstrates the informality of the occasion with the lack of crowd barriers and the public mingling with the aircraft. This photo shows aircraft on the South airfield with buildings of East Camp in the background.
Opposite page, top left: The Electrical and Wireless School arrived at Cranwell in September 1929 and was resident on the station, under various titles, until 1952. During that time the unit operated a wide variety of aircraft. This De Havilland 60M Moth K1830 was on strength during the mid-1930s.
Opposite page, bottom left and right: Reproduced from the December 1937 edition of The E&W School magazine, this extract gives the origins of the nick-name 'George', commonly used during the Second World War in connection with the automatic pilot.
The 1930s
Below: In October 1937 Cranwell played host to a group of German Luftwaffe officers led by General Erhard Milch, chief of Luftwaffe Air Staff, then on an official visit to Britain. In the background are the two De Havilland 86 airliners that were used by the visiting Germans; one (L7596) a 24 Squadron aircraft while the other (owned by Blackpool and West Coast Air Services Ltd) carries the civil registration G-AENR.
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