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Description: | British officer served as pilot with Royal Naval Air Service flying anti-submarine seaplane patrols based in GB, France and Mesopotamia, 1915-1916; served with East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Sqdn based in Egypt and operating in Palestine, 1916-1917; served as senior flying officer aboard HMS Empress based at Gibraltar, 1918
REEL 1 Recollections of recruitment and flying training with Royal Naval Air Service in GB, 1915: recruitment, 4/1915; start of flying training on Graham White Box Kites at Graham White School of Flying, Hendon, 4/1915-5/1915: instructors; air speed indicator; method of dual training; flying 'straights'; flying restricted by weather conditions; qualification tests as pilot; story of giving mechanic a flight. Aspects of period as officer with Royal Naval Air Service at Chingford, 1915: aircraft flown.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of failed attempt to shoot down Zeppelin; story of assisting naval officer to qualify as pilot. Period as officer with Royal Naval Air Service at Calshot and Bembridge, 1915: learning to fly Short Seaplane; flying French FBA Boat; forced landing in sea; anti-submarine patrols; flying Nieuport Monoplane Seaplane. Aspects of period as officer with Royal Naval Air Service at seaplane base at Dunkirk, 10/1915-12/1915: anti-submarine patrols.
REEL 3 Continues: anti-submarine patrols; bombs; failure to sight any submarines; rifle armament; question of engine reliability and forced landing in sea. Recollections of period as officer with Royal Naval Air Service Seaplane Sqdn in Mesopotamia, Turkey, 1916: initial base at Basra; special propellers; move to Sheikh Sa'ad; difficulty in taking off on River Tigris; method of dropping food supplies to British forces in Kut el Amara; question of state of food on landing.
REEL 4 Continues: use of untrained observers; story of escort duty flying Voisin during reconnaissance over Kut and losing opportunity of shooting down Aviatik due to inexperience of observers. Aspects of period as officer with East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Sqdn based at Dowry Island, Port Said, Egypt: 1916-1917: types of seaplane carrier; story of reconnaissance in Short Seaplane and forced landing caused by ground small arms fire in Gaza area, Palestine; attitude of Royal Naval officers to RNAS. Aspects of period as senior flying officer aboard HMS Empress based at Gibraltar, 1918: problems in taking off in harbour; story of clash with naval officers over flying conditions. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lance, David G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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