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via email from Pete Jones, 7-1-07 I want to alert you to an early aviator called Bertram Dickson. He was born December 21 1873 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died September 29, 1913 at Lochrosque Castle Scotland. Dickson was a Captain in the British Army but left the army when aeroplanes became popular about 1909. Dickson's claim to fame in early aviation is being involved in the world's first mid-air collision during an air meet in Milan Italy on October 2 1910. The Farman biplane he was flying was rammed from above by René Thomas flying an Antoinette monoplane. Dickson survived the crash but didn't fully recover his injuries which led to his early death in 1913. In 1911 he fully saw the need for Britain to have a military flying organisation and went to lengths to impress Home Secretary Winston Churchill. Churchill as it turned out was a flying enthusiast and in 1912 the Royal Flying Corps was formed which in time became the Royal Air Force. These are just some of the things in flying Captain Bertram Dickson accomplished during his short aviation career. Pictures and other information on Bertram Dickson, such as a great photo of his burial site in Scotland, can be found on the following outstanding website: Undiscovered Scotland: The Ultimate Online Guide |
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Bertram Dickson flying at Tours in France during the Aéro-Club de France's aviation week in April/May 1910 from Captain Bertram Dickson Undiscovered Scotland: The Ultimate Online Guide |
Royal Aeronautical Society Certificates from 1910 – 1950 via email from John Terry, 9-11-08 |
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Certificate
Fr 7113 24 45 56 * 63 |
Name
Capt. Bertram DicksonHon Alan Kelburn Boyle James George Weir Lt. Reginald A. Cammell Arthur Haynes Aitken William Hugh Ewen |
Date of Birth
21/12/18738/10/1886 23/5/1887 10/1/1886 14/12/1880 1/12/1879 |
Place of Birth
EdinburghOakfield, Ayr Cambuslang Inverness Helensburgh Shanghai |
Date of Certificate
12/05/191014/06/1910 08/11/1910 31/12/1910 14/02/1911 14/02/1911 |
Plane
FarmanAvis monoplane Bleriot monoplane Bristol Biplane Bleriot monoplane Bleriot monoplane |
Location
Chalons FranceBrooklands Hendon Salisbury Plain Beaulieu Hendon |
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Contributed by Ted Mustard, 8-20-10 I am a volunteer guide for the National Trust at the Stonehenge Landscape over which so much of the early military aviation in UK took place between 1909 and 1914. This year a fellow guide and I decided to celebrate the centenaries of the stirring events that took place near Stonehenge in 1910 by developing aviation history related walks that folllow in the slipstream of our early aviators. We have entitled our walks "Wings over Stonehenge". So far this year we have celebrated the centenary of the first flight of the Bristol Boxkite by a walk on 30 July. The next planned walks are scheduled for 25 and 26 September and will commemorate the centenary of the 1910 "Autumn Manoeuvres" during which Captain Bertram Dickson, the actor Robbie Loraine and Lieutenant Lancelot Gibbs fly their own, or borrowed, aeroplanes to scout for the Red and Blue Forces. Robbie Loraine even had a wireless telegraphy set fitted in his Boxkite and "Morsed" his rec'ce reports to a receiver at the Bristol & Colonial Aeroplane Co. Ltd's hangars at Larkhill. (These hangars are still standing in their original location and form the keystone of our walks.) Winston Churchill was an enthusiastic ground observer of these scouting trials and used his influence, among other's, to galvanise the British Army into buying its second and third aeroplanes (Boxkites delivered in 1911 to No 2 Company, Air Battlion, Royal Engineers at Larkhill). Thank you for your stirling efforts to record information from this illustrious period in our aviation heritage. Your website is an invaluable research source. We hope to have relatives of the above three aviators join us for the September walks (we have two of Captain Dickson's great nephews so far). If we can glean any more information for your website we will forward it. Please let any of your friends who are planning to visit Stonehenge know that there are not just stones to see. We would be delighted to guide any groups of aviation entusiasts who come this way. Yours sincerely Ted Mustard (Sqn Leader, RAF Retired) The Butts Middle Woodford Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 6NG UK |
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Captain Bertram Dickson 1873 - 1913 You can access the site by clicking on the title above. |
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Flightgobal/archive serious about aviation WELCOME The Flightglobal Archive invites you to explore 100 years of aviation history as it appeared in the original pages of Flight Magazine from 1909-2005. * Every issue of Flight Magazine published between 1909-2005, digitally scanned and fully searchable * Thumbnail browser interface allowing for rapid issue viewing * Save and print your favourite articles * Topic pages, plus unique archive photo and cutaway galleries * 100% FREE ACCESS – forever. In fact we’re positively encouraging you to link to, copy and paste from, and contribute to the development of this unique record of aerospace and aviation history * Read our FAQs The Flightglobal Archive is a collaborative and ongoing project. We welcome your input in growing our topic categories and discovering hidden gems within the depths of time. If you find something of interest that you want to share with us and other Archive visitors then let us know You will find a wealth of material in this incredible resource. You can access it by clicking on the title. Am example of one of the many photographs which are available is seen below |
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| Capt. Bertram Dickson (Henry Farman) | Hon. Alan Boyle (Avis) | Cecil Grace (Short) |
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| G. A. Barnes (Humber) | Robert Loraine "Jones" (Henry Farman) | J. Radley (Blériot) |
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| Leon F. Morane (Blériot) | E. Audemars (Demoiselle) | L. Wagner (Hanriot) |
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