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Some Airship Personalities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave
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When Airship No. 1, which had been built at Barrow, was finally abandoned in 1912, her officers were sent to Farnborough as “The Naval Wing” to gain experience of the military airships and of the Royal Aircraft Factory where they were built. A German Parsival Airship, No. 4, and a French Astra Airship, No. 3, were bought by the Admiralty for the Naval Wing.

In 1913 I succeeded in getting transferred to the Naval Wing and I found in the Naval Mess a most inspiring community. Lieut. Commander N. F. Usborne was the dominant spirit.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966 , pp. 52 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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Footnotes

*

Wing Cdr. Cave-Browne-Cave has, at our request, written about some airship personalities he knew and some airship flights.—Ed.

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* Wing Cdr. Cave-Browne-Cave has, at our request, written about some airship personalities he knew and some airship flights.—Ed.