Word: brancker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; the ship's designer; the man who superintended her construction; the commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic; and 43 other passengers, officers...
Lord Thomson answered all these questions with confident negatives last week. Calmly, with no fanfare he entered the moored R-101 at Cardington at misty twilight. With him were other British air notables?Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore, Director of the R-101'S construction; Lieut.-Col. V. C. Richmond, designer; Major G. H. Scott, Commander of the R34 (first dirigible to cross the Atlantic); and 49 other passengers, officers, crew...
Killed. Brig.-General Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Baron Cardington, 55, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation for the Air Ministry and its Director of Air Organization and Controller-General of Equipment during the War; Major George Herbert Scott, Commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic ocean (July 1919); with 44 others in the R-101 disaster over France...