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Description: | British NCO engineer served with Airship Eta with Royal Naval Air Service at Farnborough, GB, 1914; involved in design and construction of Submarine Scout and Coastal Patrol Airships at Kingsnorth, GB, 1915; served with C4 Airship on anti-submarine patrols based at Longside, GB, 1916; served as member of test flight crew and on anti-submarine patrols flying various Rigid Airships in GB, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of recruitment and training as chief petty officer engine room artificer with Naval Airship Section, Royal Naval Air Service at Farnborough, 8/1914-11/1914: pre-war experience as engineer and connections with flying; recruitment; trade test and question of commission at Hendon; .reaction to first view of Airship Eta; use of goldbeater skin on airships; station establishment and officers. Recollections of period as crew engineer with Airship Eta at Farnborough, 11/1914-2/1915: description of Eta and use of worn engines.
REEL 2 Continues: method of launching and landing Eta; role of crew members; training role and simple nature of Eta; problems during first flight as crew engineer including effects of ice on envelope, freezing of engine oil and consequent forced landing.
REEL 3 Recollections of period as NCO with Royal Naval Air Service at Kingsnorth: role in design and construction of Submarine Scout Airships by attaching BE2 C fuselage to Willows gas envelope, 2/1915; construction of Coastal Patrol Airship C4. Aspects of period as NCO with Royal Naval Air Service flying Coastal Airships at Longside, 5/1916-9/1916: station layout; daily submarine patrols for Grand Fleet; story of nearly running out of fuel and method of fixing position using radio; story of evading German aircraft.
REEL 4 Continues: Period as NCO with Royal Naval Air Service flying various airships as member of Commander Masterman's test crew flying various Rigid Airships in GB, 9/1916-11/1918: first impressions and successful flight test of R9 airship; comparison with non-rigid airships; comparison of R24 with R9; flying anti-submarine patrols with R24 based at East Fortune, 1/1917-5/1917, including flying problems caused by bad weather, signs of submarines oil slicks and question of effectiveness; wood construction and crew facilities of R31airship. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Middleton, J S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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