Crowds attend air show at Gatwick Airport (1949)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Spectators watch airplane acrobatics and displays at Daily Express Air Pageant at Gatwick Airport Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Air Thrills at the Gatwick Show ENGLAND: Crawley: West Sussex: Gatwick Airport: EXT AERIAL SHOWS Daily Express air pageant at Gatwick airport. Acrobatic display by three planes. American star Betty Skelton does stunting. Passing between posts - cutting ribbon tied to posts and makes perfect touch-down. Shots of the “Wee-Bee“ an air-scooter - with pilot in prone position. R. A. F. and airborne troops make combined attack on enemy radio post. troops and supplies drop by parachute with glider troops AEROPLANES - . and Naval . planes with gliders drop parachutes (troops and supplies) in mock raid on enemy radio post during Daily Express Air pageant at Gatwick Airport GATWICK AIRPORT Daily Expr