From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Account of a difficult landing and related aerial events, including a plane crash.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\3\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 21th January 1930 guessed | |
| IV in fact how on earth anybody can breathe in the place beats me hollow. On the other hand Oxford looked quite enchanting, being lit very graciously by the low-lying sun. We nearly pulled up another tree yesterday as the landing party were asleep, or drunk, and we toured over the country at 1200 feet, with a 900 foot mooring wire hanging out. Result, as soon as we arrived at a hillock of 300 ft. A.M.S.L we started uprooting the landscape, and damaged our mooring guy. 20 aeroplanes buzzing round us yesterday like a lot of flies. One poor fellow crashed and caught fire. | ||