From the climactic set-piece at the 1927 RAF Display at Hendon, the destruction of an 'Eastern village' by Fairey Foxes -- in GIF form:

I made these for my talk at the Australasian Association for European History conference at the Unversity of Queensland last week; there I argued that 'imperial' set-pieces like this were actually not characteristic of Hendon, despite what you read in the secondary literature, but still it seems a shame not to repost them here. The source is a British Pathé newsreel on Youtube, which I converted using Giphy.

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