[Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley with Curtiss Fledgling]

Photograph of Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley, a Royal Air Force flight commander, standing in front of a Curtiss Fledgling (Model 51) aircraft at the National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio, 1931. Atcherly is dressed in formal wear, including a top hat.

Caption on adjacent album page: "Flight Commander R. L. R. Atcherley of the Royal Air Force, right from jolly old England, if you please, and would you believe it, this noble gentleman took to the air in this somewhat formal attire." Part of a scrapbook related to Dorothy (Hester) Stenzel's participation in the 1931 National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1931.