Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

During the spring of 1914 the Eastbourne Aviation Company's 80 h.p. Gnome-powered Henry Farman seaplanes, flown by Frederick Bernard Fowler, the company's founder, made several visits to Volk’s Waterplane Station at Brighton. Seaplane joyrides had become the "fashionable amusement" at the resort, and applicants for flights were so numerous that many had to be refused because of fading light.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-07 / Personal album. Civil

During the spring of 1914 the Eastbourne Aviation Company's 80 h.p. Gnome-powered Henry Farman seaplanes, flown by Frederick Bernard Fowler, the company's founder, made several visits to Volk’s Waterplane Station at Brighton. Seaplane joyrides had become the "fashionable amusement" at the resort, and applicants for flights were so numerous that many had to be refused because of fading light. F. B. Fowler is seen in front of the nacelle in the close-up shot.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-09 / D.Brown - Wings over Sussex (1)

A Farman seaplane at Shoreham.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-09 / D.Brown - Wings over Sussex (1)

Claude Grahame-White's Farman, Wake up England being beached near Brighton.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-08 / Painted Wings

Colin Ashford has taken the Farman floatplane Wake up England as the subject of this watercolour.