To India by Air - How aviation united the British Empire

In 1926, the flight of a woman from England to India showed the public that for the first time, airline travel was safe – although, actually, it wasn’t. Yet Great Britain did it anyway in order to unite the Empire by air, no matter what the cost!

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Thomas Van Hare has published over 450 articles on aviation history since 1997 at Historic Wings - http://www.historicwings.com/. He is an author, including along with Matt Lawrence, of the bestselling book, "Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five", about the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. He serves as the Director of the Defense Technology Innovation Program LLC, a public-private partnership with the Pentagon that scouts, identifies, and brings breakthrough technologies for potential military use. He is a former three-time White House appointee working in foreign policy, national security, and defense, a former CEO of an airline and flew as a command pilot and mission director on search and rescue missions, saving over 3,000 lives.

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Story Research and Photo Credits: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) + Flight, Royal Aero Club + UWM Libraries + Aviation Ancestry, Notts, UK + Richard Munckton + The Times + The Telegraph + Culture.pl + British Airways + US Coast Guard Museum + Photo Vintage France + Christie’s + Hadi Karimi + Matthias Bruhin & Hp. Baumeler + Marina Bruce + National Archives and Records Administration

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