Captain Dickson

Captain Dickson: Aviation Pioneer (Illustrated talk at the Museum of Army Flying)

THE action-packed, but tragically short, life of Captain Bertram Dickson will be mapped out in an illustrated talk at the Museum of Army Flying at 7pm this Thursday (30 March).

Captain Dickson was a pioneering Scottish airman and the first British serviceman to qualify as a pilot.

His exploits in the air, watched by Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, indirectly led to the creation of the Royal Flying Corps.

Speaker and Captain Dickson researcher, James Munro, says that picking up from his late father’s work into the airman he became instantly fascinated.

I was also enormously impressed by how much Dickson achieved in such a short time, he said.

In a tragically short life he was a veteran of the Boer war, steeplechase winner, linguist, geographer and explorer, international boundary surveyor, expert pioneer pilot, aircraft designer and military visionary.

He gave up his military career, took on the establishment and risked his life to champion what he believed to be the desperate need for Britain to have its own air force.

He died in 1913 soon after the RFC was created, and was lost under the tidal wave of history that rolled over the world during the next five years.

Without him, when war came, we would have faced a German air force far superior and better trained and equipped than anything we might have had.

I don’t think it’s too much to say that without his vision and drive the history of the First World War would have been a lot different and not for the better.

To hear the full story tickets can be obtained by visiting www.armyflying.com/events/

 


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