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Tales from Lympne: The Flying Duchess

The Duchess of Bedford took up flying aged 60 and went on to make record-breaking flights in the 1920s and 30s

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Tales from Lympne: Skyfall over Botolph’s Bridge

The pilot was reportedly a heavily built man, which probably contributed to the seat belt breaking

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Tales from Lympne: Dawn of the jet age

The RAF’s new generation of jet fighters took part in air racing events at Lympne after the war

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Tales from Lympne: Remembering a record-breaking aviator

Brook, achieved the return record from Darwin to Lympne in seven days, 19 hours and 50 minutes

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Tales from Lympne: Remembering a little-known World War One flying ace

Rose set off from Lympne on his attempts to set a new England-to-Cape Town record in 1936

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Tales from Lympne: When village was gateway to Europe by car

'The service started in 1948, flying Bristol 170 Freighters carrying two cars and passengers'

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Tales from Lympne: Aeronca flew over the airfield for the first time since the 1960s

The plane made the special flight from its Cornwall home

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Tales from Lympne: Trailblazing test pilots of the 1930s

'George' and 'Mutt' carried out historic flights at the Kent airfield