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The first British woman to receive a pilot's certificate, gained flying her Farman biplane. [79] Opened a flying school at Brooklands with Gustav Blondeau and an aircraft company with him. She taught her son, Francis Hewlett (certificate 156), to fly. 123 Walter C. England 29 August 1911 [78] – 124 Herbert Spencer 29 August 1911 [78]
Baldwin was awarded the Royal Aero Club's Aviator's Certificate no. 971 on 17 November 1914 and became a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. [2] He was appointed Officer Commanding No. 55 Squadron in October 1916 and Officer Commanding No. 41 Wing in December 1917 before transferring to the Royal Air Force on its formation in 1918. [2]
The Royal Air Forces Association, also known as RAF Association or RAFA, is a British registered charity. It provides care and support to serving and retired members of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth , and to their dependents.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [8]
Reginald Brie was a founder member of both the Helicopter Association of Great Britain, and the American Helicopter Society. He held both the No. 1 Helicopter Aviator's Certificate and a Commercial Helicopter Pilots Licence. In 1954, the Royal Aeronautical Society awarded him the British Silver Medal for Aeronautics. [2]
Served in the RAF 1914 - 1918, killed while flying on 27 June 1930. [28] 817 Lt. Francis Hermann Eberli RGA 24 June 1914 [27] - 818 Midshipman Geoffrey Cayley Lambert Dalley RN 24 June 1914 [27] - 819 Lt. Leslie Fitzroy Richard RGA: 24 June 1914 [27] - 820 Lt. Charles Nugent, Royal Berkshire Regiment: 24 June 1914 [27] - 821 Capt. Henry Edward ...
In 1915, Purdom was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, receiving Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1873 after soloing a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School, Birmingham, on 11 October 1915, [5] and was appointed a flying officer on 18 January 1916.
Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001). ISBN 1-85310-053-6. Lake, Alan (1999). Flying Units of the RAF. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.