Colonel James Lethbridge Brooke Templer was an early British military pioneer of balloons. He was an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers. Templer set out a scientific foundatio
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The Airship Nulli Secundus, 1907
British Army Dirigible No 1
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British Army Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus was a semi-rigid airship. First flown on 10 September 1907, it was Britain's first powered military aircraft.
James Templer (balloon aviator)
…Balloon Factory relocated to Farnborough. where work could be started on an airship shed. This, and a shortage of money, delayed the project. Work on the British Army Dirigible No 1, named Nulli Secundus ("Second to none") was not complete until 1907 by which time Templer was no longer the superintendent of the Balloon Factory…
Nulli Secundus
Nulli Secundus II being walked out of its shed