Lifelong Love of Aircraft Art ; Art Today - Chagford Art Group Exhibition .

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WHAT drew Michael Wheeler to aircraft was a visit to Croydon Airport in 1937, where he enjoyed a guided tour of planes on the tarmac and in hangers.

The following year he went to Biggin Hill Air Display and saw a Hawker Hurricane thrill crowds, and from his school in Kent saw snatches of the Battle of Britain in the skies above.

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Lifelong Love of Aircraft Art ; Art Today - Chagford Art Group Exhibition .

This interest in flying machines continued in 1941 and 1942, when he cycled to Headc...

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