Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC (6 May 1894 – 21 October 1973) was an English aviation pioneer. As a child he attended Wilson's School,[page needed] which...

Cobham Limited is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Bournemouth, England. Cobham was originally founded by Sir Alan Cobham as Flight...

Alan Belmont Cobham (4 November 1927 – 28 June 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for (with Jack Edmonds and Michael O....

again, click on "hide". Presented to ETPS in 1974 by Michael Cobham, son of Sir Alan Cobham, this trophy is awarded to the fixed wing student who demonstrates...

Cobham's thesis, also known as Cobham–Edmonds thesis (named after Alan Cobham and Jack Edmonds), asserts that computational problems can be feasibly computed...

Heron-Maxwell joined Alan Cobham's Flying Circus in 1935 as a parachutist. She had met a parachutist, John Tranum, during her flying lessons. "Sir Alan had heard...

led by Baron von Richthofen Cobham's Flying Circus, an English flying circus (barnstorming group) started by Alan Cobham in 1932 Flying Circus, an American...

activities of Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day. Archive sources show that Shute, in research for writing the book, wrote to Cobham to check details...

Cobham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Alan Cobham, aviation pioneer Alan Cobham (mathematician), the namesake of the Cobham's...

pen-name). The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, Lord Grimthorpe and Alan Cobham. Amy Johnson was also one of the initial subscribers for shares. Airspeed...

McKenna Trophy as the best student on his course, as well as the Sir Alan Cobham Award for the highest standard of flying and the Hawker Hunter Trophy...

route.[citation needed] Between 16 November 1925 and 13 March 1926, Alan Cobham made an Imperial Airways' route survey flight from the UK to Cape Town...

One such enthusiast, who would revolutionize aerial refueling was Sir Alan Cobham, member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, and a pioneer of long-distance...

1927 British silent war film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Alan Cobham, Estelle Brody and John Stuart. It was made by British Gaumont at their...

27 July 2021. "Airviews". Airline History. Retrieved 30 July 2021. "Alan Cobham Aviation". Airline History. Retrieved 30 July 2021. "Alderney Air Charter"...

airshows and displays were held by aviators such as Amy Johnson and Alan Cobham, flying from a grass runway. As war approached, the airfield was taken...

Winston S. Churchill: Volume IV 1917–1922. London: Heinemann. p. 208. "Sir Alan Cobham ; A Life of a Pioneering Aviator". www.rafmuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 19...

Man-Month), Peter Brown, Larry Carter, Gregory Chaitin, John Cocke, Alan Cobham, Edgar F. Codd, Don Coppersmith, Wallace Eckert, Ronald Fagin, Horst...

Lowell Bayles André Beaumont Péter Besenyei Louis Bleriot Paul Bonhomme Alan Cobham Jacqueline Cochran Glenn Curtiss Geoffrey de Havilland Geoffrey de Havilland...

Schneider Trophy race. Alan Cobham's de Havilland DH.50 (G-EBFO) was also fitted with Shorts floats at Rochester. On 30 June 1926, Cobham then started a flight...

bases at Bicester Airfield and Port Meadow. When she was eight, the Sir Alan Cobham Flying Circus visited the area, and she persuaded her father to pay for...

Brabazon Road (Lord Brabazon), Bleriot Road (Louis Blériot), Cobham Road (Sir Alan Cobham), De Havilland Road (Geoffrey de Havilland), Norman Crescent...

and Airspeed director Sir Alan Cobham sought a compact multi-engined airliner to perform 'air-experience' flights in Cobham's National Aviation Day displays...

Shire Publications, Oxford, 2010.ISBN 978-0-7478-0516-8. For example, Alan Cobham received the AFC in 1926 for "valuable and distinguished service rendered...

set some distance records before in-flight refuelling was adopted. Sir Alan Cobham devised a method of in-flight refuelling in the 1930s. In the air, the...

the most advanced in the world at the time.[citation needed] In 1926, Alan Cobham surveyed a flight route from the UK to Cape Town, South Africa, following...

airfields for civil air services. Doncaster, with expert advice from Alan Cobham, opened its aviation centre on 26 May 1934. Development of the airfield...

The first commercial air route from South Africa is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town. October 10 – The South...

The King's Cup is a 1933 British drama film directed by Alan Cobham, Donald Macardle, Herbert Wilcox and Robert Cullen and starring Chili Bouchier, Harry...

undercarriage, attracted the attention of the British aviation pioneer, Sir Alan Cobham, who saw it as a suitable aircraft for demonstrating his airborne refuelling...