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9. Memories of Airspeed
Three days after D-Day and telephone lines are being put up across the soon to be famous Pegasus bridge over the Caen canal. Airspeed Horsa gliders lay in the fields where they landed at midnight 6/6/1944. IWM pic B5288 Photo: The News archive
10. Memories of Airspeed
Vietnam bound. Two entire planes being shipped from Portsmouth to the Far East about 1950. Photo: The News archive
11. Memories of Airspeed
Prototype of Airspeed Oxford plane on its maiden flight from Portsmouth on June 19, 1937. Nearly all Second World War Bomber Command crews trained in this type of aeroplane, of which 9,000 were built. (Many of which were built in the Portsmouth area). Picture: Courtesy of Reg Betts from Wickham Photo: The News archive
12. Memories of Airspeed
Norway House - the former home of Nevil Shute 1899-196- Author, Aircraft Designer and the founder of Airspeed Photo: The News archive