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LIGHT International, 19 December 1963 larshal L. T. Pankhurst, Sir Thomas opwith, Mr R. W. Sutton, Gp Capt R. H. [orniman, Mr J. H. Williams, Mr J. T. idbury, Gp Capt G. J. H. Jeffs and Wg 'dr W. W. Warner. ob Loader As reported in these pages last week, the cath occurred (on December 4) of Robert xthur Loader, chairman of Samson Clark Co Ltd and one of the best-known and est highly respected characters in the ublicity world. Leonard Bridgman rites:— Bob Loader belonged to that gradually sappearing generation, which came of age uring the First World War. Entering the FC from school in 1917, he had reached the )lo stage in his flying training when the war ided. He was soon, however, to find aployment in what was probably the first ecialized air booking office to be opened in ondon—the Lep Aerial Travel Bureau, which le enterprising Lep Transport organization ad set up in Piccadilly Circus. Here he was on to achieve a little-known "first" by andling the sale, for Handley Page Transport, 'the first ticket for a British airline service to e bought by a fare-paying passenger. As part of his then novel job he also initiated 985 Hovering Hummingbird Lockheed-Georgia's XV-4A Hummingbird ejector-jet VTOL aircraft for the US Army is now exploring all parts of its considerable flight envelope. Maximum speed will exceed 500 m.p.h., but in this picture it is seen hovering —a feat first accomplished last month considerable business for the air taxi and charter activities of the then very young de Havilland Aircraft Co. Realizing that here was a salesman after their own heart, de Havilland offered him a post on their sales staff as advertising and publicity manager. Installed in a tiny office in that wooden build ing which housed the entire administrative staff at Stag Lane, Edgware (and which today is preserved as a D.H. museum at Hatfield), Bob Loader in. due course initiated the flow of sales and publicity material which played such an important part in the successful introduction of the Moth, an aircraft destined to sell in its hundreds all over the world. In 1928 he was sent to Canada to establish the first of the D.H. overseas companies—the de Havilland Aircraft Co of Canada. Having set the new offshoot firmly on its feet, Bob Loader returned to England in 1934 to rejoin the parent company; but a year later he left to take up an appointment with Samson Clark, a well-established advertising concern with which he had close family connections. In his years with Samson Clark, during which he rose to managing director and eventually chairman, Bob Loader's aviation experience, his extraordinary flair for sales manship and his personal charm inevitably made the company's name famous throughout the aircraft industry and his passing will have come as a shock to his very large circle of friends in aviation both here and abroad. He leaves a widow and a son. At the 1963 Wilbur Wright Lecture—given last Thursday (picture, left) by Mr N. E. Rowe— RAeS Honorary Fellowships were awarded to Mr William Littlewood of American Airlines and to Sir Alfred Pugsley of Bristol University. Elected Honorary Companions were Mr C. H. Gibbs-Smith, the aeronautical historian; Mr C. L. Pashley, the veteran (I8,840hr) flying instructor; and The Hon Mr Justice Wilberforce, authority on air law. The annual medals were also presented: below, receiving them from Professor A. R. Collar, president of the Royal Aeronautical Society, are:— Top row: Mr Hayne Constant, RAes Gold Medal; Mr L. H. Bedford, RAeS Silver Medal; Mr H. H. Pearcey. RAeS Bronze Medal; Mr A. C. Lovesey, British Gold Medal. Bottom row: Mr B. P. Laight, British Silver Medal; Mr C. F. Bethwaite, R. P. Alston Medal; Wg Cdr K. H. Wallis, Alan Marsh Medal; Mr A. D. Hall. Alan Marsh Award; Mr J. W. Ward and Mr R. Cansdale, N. E. Rowe Medals. Not able to be present was Lord Brabazon of Tara (Wakefield Gold Medal) "Flight International" photographs
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