Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson, CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 – 5 February 1931) was a British naval aviation pioneer. He was one of the first...
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attack of World War I: on 25 November 1914, under the command of Charles Rumney Samson, the squadron attacked coastal gun batteries operated by German...
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Routledge, British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer Charles Rumney Samson, pioneer naval aviator. Eugen Sandow, the Prussian known as the...
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sent to France following the outbreak of war. Under the command of Charles Rumney Samson, a bombing attack on German gun batteries at Middelkerke, Belgium...
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for long-range bombing. The phrase was originated by Commander Charles Rumney Samson, who had recently returned from the front. Coastal patrol adaptations...
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cancelled about 1917 prior to any construction. 9 May – Commander Charles Rumney Samson becomes the first person to fly an aircraft off the deck of a moving...
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of fatalities from aviation accidents List of firsts in aviation Charles Rumney Samson, the first pilot to take off from a moving ship Edwin Harris Dunning...
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designer, Station Commander Hendon Aerodrome and RNAS Felixstowe. Charles Rumney Samson – initial commandant of the RFC Naval Wing, led the first armoured...
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lines and their sheds at Cologne (Köln) and Düsseldorf. Led by Charles Rumney Samson, the force of four aircraft inflicted minor damage on the sheds...
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individuals including one from Claude Grahame-White and another from Charles Rumney Samson, plus three others. The Nieuport IVs were in service when the RFC...
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Kong Charles Rumney Samson (1883–1931), British air commodore and naval aviation pioneer Cid Samson (born 1943), Canadian politician Craig Samson (born...
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I, serving with a Royal Navy Air Service squadron commanded by Charles Rumney Samson. One of these Bristol T.B.8s executed a bombing attack on German...
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then turned around and he was able to take off again. Commander Charles Rumney Samson, Royal Navy, became the first airman to take off from a moving warship...
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formation, differing from the previous No. 6 Group RAF. Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson led No. 6 Group from 1924 to 1926. In 1936, No. 1 (Air Defence)...
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Australian politician Catherine Sampson (born 1962), British novelist Charles Rumney Samson (1883–1931), British naval aviation and armoured vehicle pioneer...
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Naval Air Station at Eastchurch under the command of Commander Charles Rumney Samson. He was promoted to flight lieutenant in June, and on 20 July he...
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reconnaissance. Attention swiftly turned to ship-borne aircraft. Lieutenant Charles Rumney Samson achieved the feat of flying off a ship in December 1911. On 2 January...
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airplane, flying as the passenger of Gustav Hamel. British pilot Charles Rumney Samson made the first test flight of the new Short biplane in England before...
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takeoff from a ship underway was by the Royal Navy's Commander Charles Rumney Samson from HMS Hibernia in May 1912, three and a half years earlier. The...
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from the battleship Hibernia. During these experiments, Commander Charles Rumney Samson—who had made the world's first takeoff from a moving ship in May...
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serial number 81, making its maiden flight in July 1913, piloted by Charles Rumney Samson. It had high aspect ratio wings of uneven span, which were fitted...
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Service (RNAS). Peter served in No. 2 Wing RNAS under Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson, the first man to fly an aircraft off a ship. Peter Moffat served...
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in Waterford, Ireland that will eventually be named after him. Charles Rumney Samson, who had been the first person to fly an airplane off of the deck...
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McClean which he lent to the Navy Flying School, Eastchurch. Cdr Charles Rumney Samson and Capt Eugene Gerrard test-flew the aircraft early in 1912. The...
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Short, and the first four pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service: Charles Rumney Samson, Arthur Longmore, and Reginald Gregory RN, and Eugene Gerrard RMLI...
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Eastchurch on 17 April. The aircraft at Eastchurch, under Commander Charles Rumney Samson, formed the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps and flew a variety...
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Freud; in New Ferry, Merseyside (d. 1972) Royal Navy commander Charles Rumney Samson became the first pilot to take a plane into the air off of a ship...
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245. HMS Africa served as the first British aircraft carrier, as Charles Rumney Samson flew a Short biplane from the ship, anchored at Sheerness, England...
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Admiralty Pier in Dover. Royal Naval Air Service Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson conducted the first night bombing raid, attacking Ostend, Belgium...
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Flight, flightglobal.com, 16 March 1912. Who's Who 1951. London: Adam and Charles Black. 1951. p. 1870. "H.M.S. Engadine (1911)". Dreadnought Project. Retrieved...
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