Horatio Frederick Phillips
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Horatio Frederick Phillips was an English aviation pioneer, born in Streatham, Surrey. He was famous for building multiplane flying machines with many more sets of lifting surfaces than are normal on
1907 Flying Machine
George Cayley
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Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet was an English engineer, inventor and aviator. He was a pioneer of aeronautical engineering and is sometimes referred to as "the father of aviation", designing the first
Portrait by Henry Perronet Briggs, c. 1840
Cayley's glider in Mechanics' Magazine, 1852
Replica of Cayley's glider at the Yorkshire Air Museum
Blue plaque commemorating Cayley in Mayfair, London