Lincoln 1913
LINCOLN 1913: Temporary aerodrome
Operated by: B C Hucks
Location: Just NE of Lincoln city centre
Period of operation: 22nd to 25th January 1913
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
Note: The third item, the article, was published in the, wait for it - deep breath - Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser, on the 14th January 1913.
Note: This two part article was published in the Lincolnshire Echo on the 23rd January 1913.
Note: The advert was published in the Lincolnshire Chronicle on the 24th January 1913.
Note: This two part article was published in the Lincolnshire Echo on the 24th January 1913. The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: During the hey-day of the 'Flying Circus' era, mainly in the late 1920s until the mid 1930s, the majority of the Tours commenced in April. But here we have B C Hucks performing exhibitions of flying in January. In the height of winter, for three consecutive days.
It is perhaps, today, hard to imagine just how powerful a draw for the public it must have been - to see just one aeroplane flying - even by 1913. What we also need to bear in mind, is that the most famous of those early aviators, were what we would now know as being super-stars. So in effect, a double draw on the public imagination.
Perhaps worth reflecting on, is that in early 1914, the Royal Flying Corps, (which had a military and a naval contingent), had, it is claimed - just four squadrons, plus a balloon squadron. At the end of WW1 the RFC, (the RNAS - Royal Naval Air Service being formed in April 1914), had, it is said, around 3,300 aircraft and about 150 squadrons.
In the pre-WW1 period, much of the pioneering work, or test flying, was spearheaded by civilian pilots. And indeed, Bentfield Charles Hucks was the first Briton to perform a loop, at HENDON, in September 1913.
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