BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25@historyfare.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T220000 DTSTAMP:20240821T093638Z URL:https://historyfare.co.uk/events/high-society-flying-foxhunters-and-ai rborne-aristocrats/ SUMMARY:High Society: Flying Foxhunters and Airborne Aristocrats DESCRIPTION:Join us for our November talk when Jerry Heygate will be talkin g about the the High Society: Flying Foxhunters and Airborne Aristocrats.\ n\n‘Flying Foxhunters’ explores the famous pilots\, planes and passeng ers who have lived at or flown from the villages close to Somerby between 1919 and 1945. Starting at the old airfield at Burrough Court\, we cover L ord Furness\, his family\, and his various aircraft\, including a rumoured link to Nevill Chamberlain’s negotiations with Hitler at Munich. \;  \;In part two\, we cover the Loewenstein family from Thorpe Satchvill e\, where Alfred and his son Bobby were frequent flyers and both met tragi c and mysterious airborne fates\, and we learn about Bobby’s little know n but vital contribution to the war effort.Finally\, we finish at Burrough on the Hill\, with its connections to a member of the Peake family who pl ayed a major part in the most famous aerial conflict of all time.\n\n  \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyfare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/202 4/08/Screenshot-2024-08-20-185841.jpg CATEGORIES:History Talk,Local History,Military History,Parachute Regiment,WW2 LOCATION:RAF Association Melton Mowbray\, 24 Asfordby Road\, Melton Mowbray \, Leicestershire\, LE13 0HR\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=24 Asfordby Road\, Melton M owbray\, Leicestershire\, LE13 0HR\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-T ITLE=RAF Association Melton Mowbray:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR