RAF Hendon air pageant (1920)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Aerial display at aviation pageant in Hendon by the Royal Air Force Full Description: ENGLAND: London: Barnet: Colindale: RAF Hendon Aerodrome: EXT Gv elev. parked cars and masses of people at Hendon. Air field in far distance. GV elev. people sitting on parked cars, bi plane in distance on ground. LS three gentlemen are let through gate onto airfield, large crowd standing behind barriers. MV two dignitaries shaking hands, standing in front of barriers, the two men look at their watches. GV three bi-planes fly overhead in formation. LS two bi-plane fly towards each from opposite directions - and cross over. GV large bolster shaped balloon ???. GV biplane flies overhead. LS flare (?) falls from sky creating clouds of black dense smoke. GV smoke rising from flare (?) on ground. LS bi-plane flies overhead. MV two dignitaries looking up, watching.