Classic Lecture - Barnstorming with Cobham by Sir Michael Knight FRAeS

Cobham’s Flying Circus brought the excitement and glamour, challenges and enthusiasm, thrills and spills of aviation to literally millions of people across Britain and parts of the Empire between 1932 and 1935. Sir Michael Knight explores three and a half years of flypasts, aerobatics, wing walking, parachute displays, upside-down flying and joy rides, which Sir Alan Cobham used to sell the potential of flying to the young and old alike and tells us many amazing stories along the way.
The 1997 Handley Page Lecture took place on 20 February 1997, the podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS, the footage was supplied by British Pathé and the lecture was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.

[@hilslamer]

Hilarious, but full of incredible stories.

[@nicklindsley7866]

I have some written memories of Cobhams Flying Circus by my father who worked there for several years in the 1930s. Contact me if interested.