Alan Cobham

A Memory of Crewe.

In 1932 at the age of eight years old I enjoyed the thrill of an airborne flight, Alan Cobham, later to become Sir Alan was giving demonstration flights on the field by Merrills Bridge, now the site of Bentley Motors, my father paid the fee and I was put into the seat of an autogyro, a forerunner of what we now know as an helicopter, it was only straight up hover and down again, I cannot recall how long it lasted, no ear muffs or anything like that, very noisy but what a thrill it was, the memory stayed with me for a long long time, it wasn't until 1962 that I flew again, thanks Dad.

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