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| birth_place = [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]], England [[Category:People from Cobham, Surrey]] ...

...gine works]]. He later opened his own [[flying school]] at [[Brooklands]], Surrey, (the famous motor racing circuit) where he met [[Hilda Hewlett]].<ref>[htt [[Category:People from Luton]] ...

...ate=9 May 2010}}</ref> a post which he held from 1995 until its withdrawal from service in 2003. Bannister graduated from the Ashton School, Dunstable, and the College of Air Training Hamble, havin ...

| death_place = [[Surrey]], [[United Kingdom]] ...hy family in [[Barcelona]].<ref name="Ribalta" /> Her father was an artist from [[Sabadell]],<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.albavolunteer.org/201 ...

...for outstanding courage and skill for his part in the rescue of a motorist from a swollen river in 2004. During his career he was also employed by the org ...[[BBC News]] and [[Sky News]], and was hired to fly a number of prominent people.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Miranda |last1=Bryant |first2=Dick |last2=Murray |u ...

...ref name=AutoBiog/> Bristow was credited with shooting down two [[Stuka]]s from the forepeak of an ammunition ship off the coast of [[Algeria]].<ref name=A ...ch soldiers using one of his own helicopters, while they were under attack from [[Viet Minh]] [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar]] fire. He was subsequently awarded ...

| death_place = [[Shepperton]], [[Surrey]], [[England]], UK Following his retirement from the [[Royal Air Force]] Scholefield became Chief Test Pilot for [[Vickers]] ...

...ed in The Times, London, she was living at 33 Heathurst Road, Sanderstead, Surrey, when she renounced the surname Barnes and stated that she was to be known ...1943 she co-piloted a Mitchell bomber across the [[North Atlantic Ocean]] from Montreal, Quebec to Scotland, and until 1944 she delivered military aircraf ...

...d later airline executive, notable for flying General [[Francisco Franco]] from the [[Canary Islands]] to [[Spanish Morocco]] in 1936, a journey which was ...when Bebb was aged 26, he had qualified as a pilot. On that date he sailed from England on the [[Edinburgh Castle (1910 ship)|RMS ''Edinburgh Castle'']], d ...

| death_place = [[Haslemere]], [[Surrey]], England | known_for = Captained a [[Boeing 707]] with hostage takers from the [[1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague|French Embassy attack in The ...

...]], in south London from where her father often flew to Europe on business from [[Croydon Airport]], the place which first inspired her with a wish to fly. ...ed her private pilot's licence in July 1952. Flying back as an air hostess from Rio, the pilot Leslie Gosling invited her into the cockpit and encouraged h ...

...being qualified to build all aspects of an aircraft, airframe, and engine from scratch, and to approve the materials required for the work. ...esmaid. Their only child, Patricia Mary, was born at [[Farnham Common]] in Surrey in May 1939.<ref name=DNB /> ...

| servicenumber = <!--Do not use data from primary sources such as service records.--> ...Bremen'']], which made the first successful trans-Atlantic aircraft flight from East to West on 12–13 April 1928.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.met.ie/avi ...

...orce|RAF]] [[bomber]] stations, allowing the landing of aircraft returning from raids over [[Germany]] in poor visibility by burning fuel in rows on either ...e." Though J. D. Main-Smith co-owned the FIDO patent, no royalties accrued from any UK civilian usage after World War II, its being too petrol-hungry. At a ...

| death_place = Near [[Chertsey]], [[Surrey]], England ...915 |supp=y |issue=29062 |page=1300 |nolink=yes}}</ref> He was transferred from the OBLI to the [[General List]] and appointed a flying officer (observer) ...

|death_place= [[Purley, London|Purley, Surrey]], England ...pilots of the [[Battle of Britain]], in which he was shot down and killed. From a farming family, Hull's early years were spent in [[Southern Rhodesia]], [ ...

...e out he was working as a [[bank teller]] in [[Bromley]], then still in [[Surrey]].<ref name="theaerodrome"/>{{sfnp|Shores|2000|p=86}} Though a married man ...was dedicated to establishing civil aviation routes the length of Africa, from [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]]. With this backing ...

...t also for bringing it on the offensive to wrest the initiative in the air from the German [[Luftwaffe]]. From 1949 to 1964 he served as chairman of [[British European Airways]]. ...

...[Chipping Norton]], in [[Oxfordshire]], England, on 8 August 1956. He came from a family with a military tradition, being the middle son of a father who ha ...at he learnt his basic parachuting skills at Sibson Airfield, Peterborough from 1974 to 1978 prior to joining The [[Red Devils (Parachute Regiment)]] Displ ...

...al_charge = <!-- Criminality parameters should be supported with citations from reliable sources --> ...nt speaker at Hyde Park. When his mother died, the family moved to Sutton, Surrey, where Derek attended Sutton County School. When he left school he became a ...