AVIATION: Flt Lt. Webster and Schneider Cup winning team arrive back at Croydon (1927)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Croydon Aerodrome was the scene of a great welcome to “Dare Devil“ Webster and his companions. (Background information - 1927 Schneider Cup held over the Solent. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Schneider Cup Winners Home ENGLAND: Croydon: GROUND TO AIR shots of planes flying in formation in sky: plane lands and crowds rush up to it; crew leave plane: SLATE: Sir Philip Sassoon (Air Ministry) greeted them officially. Sir Philip Sassoon posing with airmen: men waving goodbye: car leaving: Background: Croydon Aerodrome was the scene of a great welcome to “Dare Devil“ Webster and his companions. (Background information - 1927 Schneider Cup held over the Solent. Won by Flt Lt Sidney Webster of Great Britain and the Royal Air Force in a Supermarine seaplane with a 860hp Napier engine at a speed of mph.)