For This Year’s RAF Pageant (1931)

Full title reads: “Hendon. For this year’s RAF Pageant. Hair raising crazy flying - within a few yards of the ground - will be one of the biggest thrills.“ Hendon, Greater London. Biplanes fly overhead in formation. Three packages are dropped by parachute to the ground. Royal Air Force planes fly low over airfield. They fly patterns and come very close together. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.