CCI Digest 803 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Another Avro Pilot by Nick Forder 2) George Holt Thomas by Nick Forder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:11:21 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Cc: "John Gaertner (E-mail)" Subject: Another Avro Pilot Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F86CF@EXCHANGE> Has anyone any information on J C Higgins ? He was a pilot for the Lancashire School of Aviation Ltd, Squires Gate, Blackpool. He is known to have flown Avro 548 G-EBIT (c/n 5100), which was purchased by the LSA from Feb 1928 until it crashed at Kingstown on 25 Sept 1930. The 548 was originally registered to the North Sea Aerial and General Transport Company Reserve School at Brough, the C of A being dated 9 May 1924. Thanks Nick ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:34:43 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Subject: George Holt Thomas Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F86DF@EXCHANGE> Does anyone know anything about the early life (pre meeting with Farman in 1906) of George Holt Thomas ? There is a posting on the Air-Britain list which suggests a number of errors in Mick Davis' AirCo book. I am fairly sure that Mick's main source of info on GHT was the Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (supplied by me via the omnipresent Kevin Kelly), so it seems that is wrong too. I don't know of a 'proper' biog of GHT. Has anyone else done any digging ? Nick PS He came from Brixton Hill, London ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 803 *********************