Go SST! Promoting the fastest means of flight via the slowest in front of the Safdarjung Flying Club during Balloon Mela 1985.

Starting its ascent at Balloon Mela '85 at Safdarjung Airport before Pres. Zail Singh, French balloonist G. de Colonne who participated in the World Championships in 1983 at Nantes takes the Canson balloon on its course. Sponsored by the paper mill Canson & Montgolfier, it was the latter family that built the first hot-air balloon in 1783. Interesting to think of the 200-year connection with flight by the Montgolfier brothers, even performing before King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.

Sold back in the UK as G-AHJJ. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Flown from the UK to India by Neville Stack in company with G-EBKU flown by Bernard Leete. Delhi's Safdarjung (formerly Willingdon) aerodrome did not open until 1928. A photo of the Moths from another angle shows the Safdarjung Tomb, which was a landmark of the Safdarjung aerodrome. G-EBMO was wrecked at Shillong, India, on July 19, 1927 when it struck telegraph wires landing at the polo ground.