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Author: David T Hughes
This book serves as a timely reminder of the island’s great contribution to the story of flight in the UK. The Isle of Sheppey in north Kent was the birthplace of aviation in the UK and early pioneers, including the Wright brothers and Charles Rolls, gathered on its low, flat grounds where numerous experimental flights were undertaken.
By 1909 the Short Brothers had established the first British aircraft factory and from there events snowballed. By 1911 the first naval aviators began training nearby Eastchurch, which site became the first Royal Naval Air Station. Its popular first course had over 200 volunteers for just four planes. The station served with distinction in the war that soon followed, as it did again during the Second World War, until its closure in the mid 1941s.
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