pilot B. YOUELL standing by airplane wheel
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, LTD. CROYDON AERODROME pilots
PRINTED IN ENGLAND, REAL PHOTOGRAPH, titles taken from facsimile autograph on front of cards
Great Britain
pilot B. YOUELL standing by airplane wheel
facsimile autograph on front ; THE ONLY BRITISH AIR SERVICE TO AND FROM THE CONTINENT on back, not listed by Perkins & Tonkin. images and information courtesy of David Ogden One of the original 16 pilots of Imperial Airways in 1924 b. 10 Feb 1900 in Portsea Island, Hants. RAeC certificate 4909 (1917). Awarded Master Pilot's Certificate March 1926: "Like the Swallow.—Captain B. Yulle, the Imperial Airways pilot, set a record on Thursday when he flew from London to Amsterdam, a distance of 267 miles, in 100 minutes. "October 13, 1947 – A helicopter flies in Switzerland for the first time. It is the Bell 47B G-AKCX of the Irvin-Bell Helicopters Sales presented near the Allmend in Zürich-Wollishofen by the British pilot Alan Bruce Hamilton 'Jimmy' Youell." With Imperial Airways pre-war and Railway Air Services post-war. d. 19 April 1961 'in or near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia' Source Reference URL - The Pilots of Imperial Airways
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