WW1 Aircraft Crash Air Raid German Gotha Fighter Plane 1917 Louis Bleriot 1909 Postcards

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Channel: creamofcardstv · 2012 · Film & Animation

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WW1 Aircraft Crash Air Raid German Gotha Fighter Plane 1917 Louis Bleriot 1909 Postcards

This video features the following early aviation postcards:

1. "L'aeroplane Wilbur Wright. L'arrivee au pylone" (postally unused). Corse advert on back 
2. M. Latham's Flying Machine (the first person to attempt to cross the British Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft). Postally unused.
3. M. Louis Bleriot Flies From Calais to Dover on 25th July, 1909. Postally sent on 5 August, 1909.
4. "A Stirring Episode in the Raid of 22nd Aug., 1917". This postcard features a long a distance German Gotha aircraft being shot down over Kent, probably Folkestone. Postally unused.

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