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Sir Alan Cobham - The Flying Legend Who Brought Aviation to the Masses (Hardcover)
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Sir Alan Cobham - The Flying Legend Who Brought Aviation to the Masses (Hardcover)
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Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of
the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham's
'Flying Circus' began to tour Britain. A former pilot with the
Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, Alan Cobham continued to
fly, establishing air routes to the Empire countries. He also
involved himself in aerial photography and survey work, undertook
charter flights and pioneered the 'Air to Air' refuelling technique
still in use today. Yet it was his National Aviation Day displays
for which Sir Alan Cobham's name is best remembered. Affectionally
known as 'Cobham's Flying Circus', his team of up to fourteen
aircraft toured the United Kingdom, visiting hundreds of municipal
locations, allowing 'ordinary' people to have their first taste of
flying. So extensively did Cobham travel with his displays, and so
popular did they become, that after war broke out in 1939, some 75
per cent of Britain's young men volunteering for aircrew duties
claimed that their first experience of flying had been with 'the
Circus'. Sir Alan's name still lives on in the aviation world. The
creation of Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934 eventually led to the
formation of what is today a major international aerospace and
defence organisation-Cobham PLC.
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