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Month: July 2019

First Westland Crash – September 1917

First Westland Crash – September 1917

At about half-past ten on Monday morning, 3 September 1917, Flight Sub-Lieutenant John Emyr Thomas of the Royal Naval Air Service, an Air Department ferry pilot, took off in his Avro 504E two seater biplane from Westland’s airfield en-route for the Royal Naval Air Station Hendon. Accompanying the Flight Sub-Lieutenant in the observer’s seat behind him, was Mr Robert Norton, Westland’s commercial director, on his way to a meeting with Air Board in London. The take off was normal, but…

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