Red Hot Racer Up close with a 1930’s Percival Mew Gull

Alex Henshaw’s all –white and only surviving original Mew Gull G-AEXF flying with David Beale’s reproduction G-HEKL near Old Warden, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Darren Harbar)

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The 1930s were a golden era, pushing the boundaries of sophisticated design in the quest for speed and air race glory. The de Havilland Aircraft Company excelled with the DH 88 Comet G-ACSS “Grosvenor House,” which won the prestigious 1934 London to Melbourne (Australia) MacRobertson Air Race. The King’s Cup Air Race, inaugurated in 1922 for a trophy initially presented by King George V, became the most important and widely publicized British air race. The...

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