Air Craft Work ; Gerry Brooke Looks at a New Book About Weston-Super-Mare and Its Associations with the Aeroplane

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Everybody knows Weston-super-Mare's helicopter museum, established by enthusiast Elfan ap Rees in the 1970s and still going strong today.

But how many of today's generation, I wonder, know anything more about the resort's long association with many other types of aircraft? As Ted Johnson and Roger Dudley point out in a new publication, Weston-super-Mare and the Aeroplane, this association stretches back to the very dawn of aircraft flight.

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Air Craft Work ; Gerry Brooke Looks at a New Book About Weston-Super-Mare and Its Associations with the Aeroplane

Westonians first got close to a plane in 1911 when Colonel Cody, an early aviator competing in the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race, landed on the beach.

In fact Cody, a great publicist, caused even more excit...

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