Sopwith Bat Boat
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The Sopwith Bat Boats were British flying boats designed and built from 1912 to 1914. A single-engined pusher biplane, the Bat Boat was the first successful flying boat and amphibious aircraft built i
The first Sopwith Bat Boat in the factory at Kingston-Upon-Thames c. 1913.
Harry Hawker
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Harry George Hawker, MBE, AFC was an Australian aviation pioneer. He was the chief test pilot for Sopwith and was also involved in the design of many of their aircraft. After the First World War, he c
Sopwith Bat Boat
…Aero Show at Olympia, London in February that year. The Bat-Boat was sent from Olympia to Cowes for tests in March, with both Thomas Sopwith and Harry Hawker attempting, with little success, to get the Bat Boat airborne. The Bat Boat was wrecked by a storm. A second Bat Boat soon followed, omitting the forward…
Hawker in May 1919
Crowd welcoming Australian Harry George Hawker and Anglo-Canadian Kenneth MacKenzie-Grieve, Kings Cross London, 1919