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The first Royal Navy officer to gain a Royal Aero Club Aviator's Licence. He made his first flight on 19 June 1910, flying Frank McClean's Short S.27 (Shorts' works no. S.26) for 11 miles in 20 minutes; the following day he passed the tests for the Pilot's Certificate, which was awarded at the Royal Aero Club's committee meeting on 21 June 1910 ...
Royal Aero Club certificates awarded in 1912 (nos. 169–382) No. Name Date Comment 169 Lt. Garthshore Tindal Porter RA: 9 January 1912 [1] (1887–1957) Australian-born. Used a Bristol Biplane at Salisbury Plain. Born in Queensland Colony before joining the British Army. Served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps and Royal ...
He was awarded Royal Aero Club Special Certificate No. 7 for carrying out a series flights and aerial manoeuvres which were of special merit in the early years of aviation. [3] 43 Basil Herbert Barrington-Kennett 7 January 1911 [1] (1884–1915). A Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, he used a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon.
Royal Aero Club certificates awarded in 1914 (nos. 720–1032) No. Name Date Comment 720 Captain Robert John Lillywhite RFC: 1 January 1914 [1] Died 26 November 1916 (killed in "an aeroplane accident at the Front", aged 23), [2] nephew of the famous cricketer James Lillywhite. [3] 721 Sub-Lt. Franklin Geoffrey Saunders RNVR: 1 January 1914 [1]
The Royal Aero Club's Accident Investigation Committee's Report N. 19 stated that "the condition of the pilot's health, as disclosed by the medical evidence, coupled with the fact of the gradual turning over of the aircraft in its descent to the ground, point to the pilot having lost consciousness just before or at the commencement of the dive ...
List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1912; List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1913; List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1914; List of pilots with foreign Aviator's Certificates accredited by the Royal Aero Club 1910–14; List of ...
The Aero Club was founded in 1901 by Frank Hedges Butler, his daughter Vera and the Hon Charles Rolls (one of the founders of Rolls-Royce), partly inspired by the Aero Club of France. It was initially concerned more with ballooning but after the demonstrations of heavier-than-air flight made by the Wright Brothers in France in 1908, it embraced ...
Hilda Hope McMaugh (11 March 1885 – 30 March 1981) was an Australian nurse and pilot. She was the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot, receiving her certificate from the Royal Aero Club in England on 15 November 1919.