- AVIATION - *An original coloured lithograph from 'Vanity Fair' by WH [name unknown]. Hamel learned to fly at the Bleriot school in Pau aged 21. In 1911 he flew from Hendon to Windsor in 18 minutes and delivered a sack of letters and postcards, the first air-mail flight. In 1913, he and BENFIELD HUCKS [see entry on our web-site for this person] raced a seventy-five mile circuit around the Midlands which he won by 20 seconds. On May 23rd. 1914, he was returning from Paris in a new monoplane but never reached home. A body was later found off Boulogne, and identified as being Hamel.

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Title: Flight.
Publisher: Vanity Fair. London
Publication Date: 1912

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