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Aviation History
1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 ON this and the three following pages we give a selectionof " personalities " prominent during the past twenty-one years of flying. Our first picture shows the Hon. C. S. Rolls with his Wright biplane at the first Inter- national Aviation Meeting at Bournemouth, 1910, where he met with a fatal accident whilst taking part in the landing competition. His death robbed Great Britain of one of its most honoured and enthusiastic pioneer airmen and balloonist. He was one of the first group of " experimenters" who began flying at the Royal Aero Club's aerodrome at East- church. Below are six more " Old Timers " ; they are (from left to right) Capt. B. Dicksen, who took part in many of the early flying meetings at home and abroad ; A. Rawlinson, who obtained the R.Ae.C. pilot's certificate No. 3 on April 5, 1910 ; George A. Barnes, who flew the Humber-Bleriot monoplanes in 1910; Alec Ogilvie, another of the early Eastchurch colony, who flew a Wright biplane ; Cecil Grace, also of Eastchurch, who lost his life making a flight over the Channel ia 1910; J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who was the first to fly at Eastchurch <Feb. 27, 1909, on a Voisin biplane " Bird of Passage"), and later (Oct. 30, 1909) won the Daily Mail /1,000 prize for a circular flight of one mile on a Short (Wright-type) biplane. Four more " Old Timers" come next : J. A. Drexel, W. B. R. Moor- house, and J. Radley, who all flew Bleriot monoplanes ; and " Mr. Jones," or otherwise Robert Lorraine, who besame famous as an airmaa at the Bournemouth Meeting, 1910. Next we have the first four Naval Officers trained as air pilots, A. M. Longmore, C. R. Samson, R. Gregory and E. L. Gerrard, who were taught by G. B. Cockburn at Eastchurch duing 1910. Above are : W. E. McArdle, who, with A. Drexel, opened a flying school near Beaulieu in 1910 ; G. C. £olmore, who learnt to fly at Eastchurch, 1910 ; the Hon. Alan Boyle, who was one of the first Brooklands pilots ; D. G. Gilmour, another Brooklands pilot, iwho flew Bristol and Martin Handasyde monoplanes; Marcel Desoutter, one of the early Hendon pilots who gave splendid displays on the Bleriot. (FLIGHT Photos.) 34
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