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    The Marske Pioneer is a family of American, single-seat, mid-wing, tailless gliders that was designed by Jim Marske. The Pioneer II version was available...
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    as the Backstrom EPB-1C and Marske XM-1D, although with a swept vertical stabilizer similar to that of the Marske Pioneer.[citation needed] Fabrication...
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  • constructed. The Marske Pioneer series first flew in 1968 and has been developed through the all-composite construction Pioneer III model. The Marske Monarch is...
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  • Marske Monarch US Glider Experimental 1974 Homebuilt n/a Marske Pioneer US Glider Experimental 1968 Homebuilt 17 One example built of the Pioneer 1...
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    v t e Marske Aircraft Genesis II Monarch Pioneer Pioneer II Pioneer III XM-1...
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  • with the XM-1 lead to the final configuration of the later Marske Pioneer. The first of Marske's flying wings was the XM-1, a design inspired by the flying...
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    The Marske Monarch is a single-seat, high-wing, strut-braced, tailless ultralight glider and motor glider that was offered both as plans and a kit for...
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  • (Jim Marske, Marion Ohio, United States) Marske XM-1 Marske Monarch Marske Pioneer I Marske Pioneer II Marske Pioneer III Genesis 1 (glider) Jim Marske &...
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    Marske Aerodrome was a First World War-era airfield used by the Royal Flying Corps, and later by the Royal Air Force, between 1917 and 1920. The aerodrome...
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    comparable role, configuration, and era Brochocki BKB-1 Marske Monarch Marske XM-1 Marske Pioneer Related lists List of gliders Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    He made his first short flight on the sandy beach between Saltburn and Marske in the spring of 1909. The aircraft was badly damaged in 1910 when he attempted...
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    James Fitzmaurice (category Aviation pioneers)
    Fitzmaurice was posted to the No. 1 School of Fighting and Aerial Gunnery at Marske-by-the-Sea, near Middlesbrough. He completed his training as a fighter pilot...
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    were living. On 1 April 1918, Johns was appointed flying instructor at Marske Aerodrome in Yorkshire. The aircraft of the time were very unreliable and...
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    design inefficient, and only a few production types, such as the Fauvel and Marske Aircraft series of sailplanes, have used it. A simpler approach is to overcome...
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    Barnes Wallis Way. A housing estate on the site of RFC Marske in the North Yorkshire village of Marske-by-the-Sea is named after Wallis. Other The Yorkshire...
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  • Premier Division Brighouse Town – transferred from NPL Division One North Marske United – promoted from Northern League Division One Morpeth Town – promoted...
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    vehicle with Paul playing Lynch himself. Vickers moved to Galashiels from Marske-by-the-Sea to work on a short-lived Scottish music magazine, Sun Zoom Spark...
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    on Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey Edwin Brett, publisher and pioneer of serialised sensational weekly fiction and 'penny dreadfuls' Jacob Bronowski...
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    Carroll (1998–2006). "LINCOLN BEACHEY The Beachey-Eaton Monoplane". The PIONEER AVIATION GROUP. Retrieved 5 October 2012. Gero, David B. "Military Aviation...
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  • Dumbarton. In the early days, Blackburn himself flew aircraft on the beaches at Marske and Filey, with the company also using the former RAF Holme-on-Spalding...
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    The councils of Middlesbrough, Stockton, Thornaby, Redcar and Saltburn & Marske warmly welcomed the report. The two other towns due to be amalgamated, Billingham...
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    service and instead served with No.2 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery at Marske. After the war, the Imperial War Museum displayed the aircraft in a temporary...
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    Co-Founder of the Amateur Athletic Association John Wrightson (1840–1916), pioneer in agricultural education and reputedly Britain's first surfer William...
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    editor Campbell Clarke – journalist and author Joseph Thomas Clover – pioneer of anaesthesia Charles Coborn – music hall singer and comedian Hiram Codd...
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    Nogués-Bravo, David; Orlando, Ludovic; Weinstock, Jaco; Binladen, Jonas; Marske, Katharine A; Ugan, Andrew; Borregaard, Michael K; Gilbert, M. Thomas P;...
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    factory. When complete, it was transported to the beach between Saltburn and Marske for testing from April 1909. In that year, only taxying trials with the...
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    Quaker, visited his brother Joseph in mid-1859 at his house by the sea at Marske-by-the-Sea. Returning late for dinner, he explained he had walked to Saltburn...
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    Instructor (Turnberry, Scotland) and Chief Fighting Instructor in the RFC (at Marske Aerodrome in North Yorkshire) and trained over 2,700 pilots. In 1918 he...
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    "Father of English Hymnody"; and Thomas Newcomen (died 1729), steam engine pioneer. Bunhill Fields Burial Ground is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic...
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    same fields between 1914 and 1918 as a staging post between Catterick and Marske aerodromes. In about 1925 negotiations began on the opening of a full-time...
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