Claude Graham-White.

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Hmmm. Blue Max. If we add another two bays to the BE’s wings and stretch the fuselage a little – a GW 18 replica perhaps??[/QUOTE]

No! No! and No!!!

A great man who deserves to be remembered.

But who was usually closed due to a heating problem.

Nations Library – Aviation CGW

I picked up a CGW book off ebay the other week.
Its a 1912 version of ‘Aviation’

Its a fantastic read and the chap certainly had his expertise set even in the early days.

Book is marked to W.George.Blight Sep 17th 1913.

Good news SB! While I know there has been some criticism of access to parts of the museum recently, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.

Some great information and images on C G-W. A fascinating visionary who deserves greater prominence.

Hmmm. Blue Max. If we add another two bays to the BE’s wings and stretch the fuselage a little – a GW 18 replica perhaps??

The Hendon watch office is expected to be moved closer to the museum and restored in a similar deal to the one that saved the hangar.

His hangar is still standing adjacent to the RAFM at Hendon!

….And one of these days the RAF Museum might even open it to the public!
(Sadly never yet when I’ve attempted to visit!!!)

I don’t know if they have been mentioned on this forum before, but two excellent books on the early years of flight that I have read recently are ‘Contact, the story of the early birds’ , and ‘blue ribbon of the air- the Gordon Bennet races’, both by Henry Serrano Villard. Both are easily available on ABE books for not much and make facinating reading, especially as Villard had met many of the pioneers as a young boy.

Jim

Hi

This thread sent me searching through my packed boxes (moving house) for a postcard i remembered seeing.

Dated only by the sender and postmark on the reverse as 19th June 1912.

Would this be one and the same?

(The card lists no other details)

I have found a glass plate of CGW from our collection. I will try to post it soon… Can you wait? 🙂

I’ll have a look when I get home.
Interesting design.
Later
A…

GW18, prototype bomber completed in the summer of 1916, does anyone know if it ever flew (after it had been covered, of course!)?

Robbo, Peter et al.
Not CGW but a Wright biplane around the pylons at Rheims I think.
Now that’s got to be fifty feet. :rolleyes:

I confess I lifted it off that site but it’s a such a great picture.

Cheers
Andy

Grahame-White GWE6

Apart from this Bantam, G-W built Type X Aerobus, Type XI 2-seat military biplane and the Type XIII floatplane, the Type XV 2-seat biplane trainer widely used by the RFC and RNAS early in the war (WW1 of course!), the twin fuselage 3-engined GWE4 Ganymede bomber of 1918.
Photo scanned from “British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1908” by Gunter Endres.

Just finished ‘Flying Witness’.
Very good it is too.
So much of what happened back then has really almost been forgotten.

The August 1909 meeting at Rheims must have been something almost beyond our imagination to have seen.
For more I recomend here….

http://www.thosemagnificentmen.co.uk/tmmitfm.html

Enjoy.
Cheers
Andy

PS. Can we have a bit more early aviation and Great War content?–Please.
I love Spitfires, Mustangs, Legends, etc, etc, but all day every day gets tedious.

I can only agree that C G-W deserves more recognition today for his exploits and achievements of some 95 years ago – and the biography by the late Grahame Wallace does make fascinating reading. Having only recently read it, I’m now looking out for other books written my the great man himself – can anyone reccommend specific titles?

Note: the Listed G-W ‘factory’ at the RAFM is only a small surviving part of the original large factory at Hendon – much more survived until the RAF station closed and the Listed factory entrance and watch office – both dating I believe from 1915 – still survive yet are in a very derelict and neglected condition. A great shame considering their connection with Grahame-White and the fact that the watch office is Britain’s oldest surviving ‘control tower’.

First flying postie G.W.

Ok, Here’s the only a few I could find for now 🙂 ,

I think the Type 10 Charabanc might have been his only really good one :rolleyes: .

I have not found it easy to find a picture of the Charabanc so far, so if anyone else has one please be my guest and post it please 😉 .

The more Claudie Graham-White stuff the better please Lady’s and Gent’s 😉 .

Cheer’s all far and wide 😀 , Tally :dev2: Ho! :dev2: Ho! Phil :diablo: .(p.s. thank’s G-ordy mate)

His hangar is still standing adjacent to the RAFM at Hendon!