Scientist and pioneer of aviation. Born Scarborough.
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Sir George Cayley
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George Cayley
George Cayley, engineer & inventor, established on this site The Royal Po...
Sir George Cayley
London County Council Sir George Cayley, 1773 - 1857, scientist and pioneer ...
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Morton Air Services
A very early independent British airline. Eventually absorbed into British United Island Airways.
WW2 aircraft crash
The story of this crash is very well told at Their Last Night. Here we give a brief summary. The plane was a a Mark 5 Halifax No DK 253 of 427 Squadron based at Leeming, Yorkshire. It was one o...
Lady Maud Hoare DBE
Wife of Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Templewood but achieved her DBE in her own right, by flying in 1927 a 12,000-mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service, the first wom...
Comte Robert de Lesseps, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de guerre
A Frenchman, born in Paris. One of the 13 surviving children of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 94), who was responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal. Robert was an early aviator but it was ...
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