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Название: Pioneering Places of British Aviation: The Early Years of Powered Flight in the UK
Автор: Bruce Hales-Dutton
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2020
Страниц: 266
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 15 MB

From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became centres of innovation and experimentation, as increasing numbers of daring men took to the skies. It was in 1799, at Brompton Hall, that Sir George Cayley Bart put forward ideas which formed the basis of powered flight. Cayley is widely regarded as the father of aviation and his ancestral home the ‘cradle' of British aviation. There were balloon flights at Hendon from 1862, although attempts at powered flights from the area later used as the famous airfield, do not seem to have been particularly successful. Despite this, Louis Bleriot established a flying school there in 1910.