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1942 - 0529.PDF
IN 1915 : Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, at Eastchurch. The machine is a Short biplane with 50 h.p. Gnome rotary engine. Note the Maxim gun mounted above the nose of the nacelle. On the right is Commander Samson, one of the early Eastchurch pilots. Mr. CHURCHILL and the AIR Aeronautical Incidents in the Life of Our Prime Minister MANY of our older readers will probably have for gotten how closely Mr. Winston Churchill has followed the fortunes of flying since the very early days, and certainly our younger readers will have no idea of the way in which our Prime Minister has, from time J^ time and in many different ways, left his mark on the fj?! story rjf British aviation. It has seemed to us well tbat the connection with flying of the man who now guides the destinies of the British Empire so sternly and courageously, should be more widely known, and in the following notes we have endeavoured to trace the more important points at which, in his varied career, Mr. Winston Churchill's activities have touched those of "ritish aviation. There is little doubt that he has had a good deal more influence on its development than is generally realised. lixactly when Mr. Churchill made his first flight as a passenger we do not know. In a leading article in Flight ol May 20th, 1911, we said: "Within a few weeks the world has seen with its own eyes the Leader of His Majesty's Opposition and the First Lord of the Admiralty afcually flying, and, what is more, taking the experience •almost as a matter of course." The Leader of the Oppo- sltion at that time was Mr. A. J. Balfour; the First Lord 01 the Admiralty was Mr. McKenna, and the occasion was a demonstration at Hendon, arranged by the Parlia- JN 1941 : Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, alights from a De Havilland Flamingo, after an inspection flight.
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