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...

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...

Routledge, British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer Charles Rumney Samson, pioneer naval aviator. Eugen Sandow, the Prussian known as the...

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...

for long-range bombing. The phrase was originated by Commander Charles Rumney Samson, who had recently returned from the front. Coastal patrol adaptations...

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...

designer, Station Commander Hendon Aerodrome and RNAS Felixstowe. Charles Rumney Samson – initial commandant of the RFC Naval Wing, led the first armoured...

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...

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...

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...

Kong Charles Rumney Samson (1883–1931), British air commodore and naval aviation pioneer Cid Samson (born 1943), Canadian politician Craig Samson (born...

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...

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...

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)...

Australian politician Catherine Sampson (born 1962), British novelist Charles Rumney Samson (1883–1931), British naval aviation and armoured vehicle pioneer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

coming second. Collet's unit, under the command of Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson, initially flew patrols along the North Sea coast, but on 27 August...