Sub: 14 Year Old Aviator (1934)

Title for this item is missing. Paperwork title for this item reads: “SUB: 1 - 14 year old aviator at East Anglian Aero Club.“ (01:33:00) - (01:34:12) East Anglian Aero Club. Close up shot of a boy in pilot gear. Boy is 14 year old Ovid Victor Ottley of Alexandra Park, London. Boy climbs into a de Havilland Gipsy Moth plane. A man starts the propellor and boy takes off. Cut to the boy getting out of plane. Man and a girl waiting. Man introduces Victor to Miss Jean Hughes, the Club’s youngest girl pilot. Girl leaves and the man interviews Victor. Boy says he feels confident... very keen on flying... believes that young people should lead the way. Paperwork states that the title for this item is “SUB: 2 ...and Miss Winifred Drinkwater - the girl pilot who will co-operate with the men on the Liverpool Air Ferries.“ (01:34:12) - (01:34:31) Location unknown. Miss Winifred Drinkwater, age 20, in front of an Avro 640 Cadet plane getting ready to fly. Sign on the plane reads “Highland and Scottish Air
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