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Noel Pemberton-Billing
The eccentric inventor and founder of the Pemberton-Billing Ltd aircraft factory which became Supermarine Aviation. |
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Hubert Scott-Paine
Read how Hubert Scott Paine took Supermarine Avaition to new hights of sucess and formed the British Powerboat Company. |
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R.J. Mitchell
An innovative aircraft engineer and designer who's lasting legacy was the World War Two fighter plane the Spitfire |
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Donald Bennett CB, CBE, DSO
An Australian airman who became the youngest Air Vice Marshal in the history of the RAF and flew pathfinder missions during the Second World War. |
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Victoria Drummond
God-daughter to Queen Victoria and the first woman to sail as a chief engineer and become a member of the Institute of Marine Engineers. |
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