A view of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground
Corsair, G-ADVB, became infamous for crashing not once, but twice, in Equatorial Africa. Geoffrey was in Juba, in the middle of things, when the accident happened. Then after the flying boat was salvaged from its watery berth on the edge
Running through ideas for more voice recordings, I thought the description of the acceptance testing would be of interest. The first three Empire Flying Boats Only one flying boat had been through the acceptance testing and flown – Canopus ADHL,
By chance, I heard a snippet on a news programme yesterday, mentioning that Pathe News had uploaded thousands of hours of newsreels onto YouTube. So I wondered what might shed more light on the Imperial Airways flying boat service. Just
I love the way Geoffrey got the ensign on the back of the launch in this photo of Camilla leaving Lindi. I assume it’s a red ensign – the Union flag in the top left corner and plain red for
It’s an Imperial Airways Atalanta airplane (when did aeroplane go out of the vernacular?) at Mbeya, now Tanzania, then Tangyanika. Geoffrey was sent over there as Station Superintendent in the early part of 1937 when he was stationed at Nairobi,
Geoffrey took home leave in the summer of 1939, having been in the tropical regions for more than two years. He was 24, experienced in the ways of colonial Africa, and coming home to a sleepy England where Neville Chamberlain was