2-635-046 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Claude Grahame-White, English aviation pioneer, 1910 (1933). Grahame-White (1879-1959) was the first aviator first to make a night flight. He is pictured in his Farman biplane ready to start on his first attempt during the Daily Mail sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race. From History of British Aviation 1908-1914, Volume I, by R. Dallas Brett [The Aviation Book Club, London, 1933]