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...
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Cobham Limited is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Bournemouth, England. Cobham was originally founded by Sir Alan Cobham as Flight...
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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...
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Alan Belmont Cobham (4 November 1927 – 28 June 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for (with Jack Edmonds and Michael O....
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Cobham's thesis, also known as Cobham–Edmonds thesis (named after Alan Cobham and Jack Edmonds), asserts that computational problems can be feasibly computed...
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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...
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The Flight Commander (film) (redirect from With Cobham to the Cape)
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...
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Cobham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Alan Cobham, aviation pioneer Alan Cobham (mathematician), the namesake of the Cobham's...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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27 July 2021. "Airviews". Airline History. Retrieved 30 July 2021. "Alan Cobham Aviation". Airline History. Retrieved 30 July 2021. "Alderney Air Charter"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Man-Month), Peter Brown, Larry Carter, Gregory Chaitin, John Cocke, Alan Cobham, Edgar F. Codd, Don Coppersmith, Wallace Eckert, Ronald Fagin, Horst...
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Lowell Bayles André Beaumont Péter Besenyei Louis Bleriot Paul Bonhomme Alan Cobham Jacqueline Cochran Glenn Curtiss Geoffrey de Havilland Geoffrey de Havilland...
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Melbourne. Streets in the suburb also recall other aviators such as Sir Alan Cobham, Jean Batten and Amy Johnson. In the 2016 Census, there were 1,574 people...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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number of 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...
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and Airspeed director Sir Alan Cobham sought a compact multi-engined airliner to perform 'air-experience' flights in Cobham's National Aviation Day displays...
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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...
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was used by Sir Alan Cobham in an aviation promotional tour of the United Kingdom lasting 21 weeks and ending on 7 October 1929. Cobham flew 60,000 miles...
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names were made in Moths: Amy Johnson, Francis Chichester, Jim Mollison, Alan Cobham, to name only a few; and ... Transport History. Graphmitre Limited. 1978...
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airfields for civil air services. Doncaster, with expert advice from Alan Cobham, opened its aviation centre on 26 May 1934. Development of the airfield...
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the two surviving W.10s which were converted to tanker aircraft by Sir Alan Cobham. On 10 July 1923, W.8 G-EAPJ Duchess of York of Handley Page Transport...
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The probe and drogue system for aerial refuelling was developed by Sir Alan Cobham, but the Air Ministry doubted its value so long as Britain maintained...
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Aircraft Company), hired an Airco DH.9 along with pilot entrepreneur Alan Cobham. From 1921, Aerofilms carried out vertical photography for survey and...
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