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MPX5089101: Five sick biafran children who have fled their war torn home arrived in London Yesterday (Fri) on a Mercy Flight from ULI. Their aircraft left the airstrip only minutes after a bombing raid on Wednesday. The two teenaged girls, two boys aged 10 and five and an 18 months old baby girl will be cared for in hospitals in England and Ireland. Singer Chima Ugwozoh (with patch on eye) and Emanuel Anyanet (held by sister). December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089108: Some of the dogs taking part in the Richmond Dog Show next Saturday, were in need of a little training in department. The answer was to ask some of the girls from a Model Agency to help out. So today in Hyde Park they met. Model Nicky Howorth holds "Pilgrim" the Afghan Hound the other dogs and models wait in the background. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089131: Pedal power takes a nosedive. It was great while it lasted. But the flight of Britain's latest fan-powered aircraft ended rather abruptly The plane, grandly named Jupiter, came down to earth with a crash after being caught by a gust of wind at the Royal Air Force station at Benson, Oxfordshire. But for the pilot, 28-year-old Flight Lieutenant John Potter, it had been were when a were flight of fency. The bicycle-driven plane, which has an 80-ft wingspan, had stayed aloft for 44-seconds and flown a craditabls 500-yards, apurred on by his energetic padalling. Flight Lieutenant Potter stepped unhurt form a tangle of broken balau wood and plastic foil. All is not lost, however. the plane, built with the help of R.A.F. apprentices, will be ready to fly again in a couple of weeks. And they have their sights firmly set on the £10,000 price being offfered for 1,760-yard flight over a figure-of-eight course. Down to earth ... A crash-landing for pilot John Potter after the 500-yard flight. March 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089171: Over the City of Sydney The Mighty Fokker the 'Southern Cross' comes home after the Trans Pacific Flight. The famous North Shore Bridge know as the Harbour bridge under construction is in the background of the photo. Sydney, is the home of Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, but Brisbane Queensland officially ended their hop over the Pacific Ocean, 31/05/1928 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089224: Education: Children at St. Aidens R.C. Junior School, Ashington, Northumberland, where they run their own newspaper. Left to right, looking at their newspaper on the school desk: Michael Athey, 9, (photographer), Carol Bambynek, 10, (editor), Caroline Cop, 10, (reporter), and Susan Easton, 10, (fashion editor). November 1969 / Bridgeman Images