New French Airliner Aka Le Bourget - Croydon (1938)

Titles read: “LE BOURGET - CROYDON“. Several shots of a new French passenger aeroplane being christened with a bottle of champagne by air ace Maryse Bastie at Le Bourget in France. The plane starts up and takes off from the airport on its first flight across the Channel. We then see it taxiing after landing at Croydon Airport in London. A large crowd of people watch two men in military (?) uniform get off the plane. 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 o