Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Alan John Cobham NPG x19419

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Cobham joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and was commissioned as an instructor. After the war he worked for De Havilland as a test pilot, and made his name in long-distance flights to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar, 1924), the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1925-6) and Australia (1926), establishing air routes for Imperial Airways. From the 1930s he pioneered the development of in-flight refuelling, and set up a company to develop its potential. As a taxi-pilot giving commercial 'joyrides', and through... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.