19-638: Keith-Lucas is a surname. This surname was used by three brothers in honour of their father Keith Lucas : Alan Keith-Lucas (1910–1995), social worker and professor David Keith-Lucas (1911–1997), aeronautical engineer Sarah Keith-Lucas (born 1982), BBC weather presenter, grand-daughter of David Bryan Keith-Lucas (1912–1996), political scientist See also [ edit ] Keith Lucas (disambiguation) Keith (surname) Lucas (surname) All pages with titles containing Keith-Lucas [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
38-732: A Grade II* listed building , was completed in 1915. On 1 April 1918, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) amalgamated with the Royal Naval Air Service to create the Royal Air Force, and Upavon became Royal Air Force Station Upavon, commonly abbreviated to RAF Upavon. Accordingly, the former RFC Central Flying School became the Central Flying School . During 1926 the Central Flying School moved from Upavon. At
57-756: A first-class in natural sciences in 1901. In 1902 he worked in New Zealand, on the bathymetrical survey of the lakes, and he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1904. In 1907 he became an additional university demonstrator in physiology, and in 1908 a lecturer in natural sciences. He delivered the Royal Society Croonian Lecture in 1912. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913; his candidacy citation read: "Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lecturer on Physiology. Has made important contributions to physiological science, especially in relation to
76-502: A pilot, he attended a flying course at Upavon , where he was instantly killed on 5 October 1916, aged 37, when his aircraft BE2c 5389 collided in mid-air over Salisbury Plain with BE2c 4174, flown by 2Lt Geoffrey Plateras Lawson Jacques of the Central Flying School, who was also killed. Lucas is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery , and is commemorated on the War memorial of Fen Ditton , Cambridgeshire After his death his wife Alys changed
95-609: A short time in 1935, by four squadrons from the Fleet Air Arm . On 31 August 1927 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick F. Minchin , known to his colleagues as 'Dan', Captain Leslie Hamilton, and Princess Löwenstein-Wertheim took off from Upavon airfield in a Dutch Fokker F.VII A named the St. Raphael in a bid to become the first aviators to cross the Atlantic from east to west. The St. Raphael
114-570: Is a former Royal Air Force station in Wiltshire , England. It was a grass airfield , military flight training school, and administrative headquarters of the Royal Air Force . The station opened in 1912 and closed in 1993, when it was transferred to the British Army and became known as Trenchard Lines . The station motto was In Principio Et Semper , and translated from Latin means "In
133-451: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Keith Lucas (scientist) Keith Lucas FRS (8 March 1879, Greenwich – 5 October 1916, Salisbury Plain ) was a British scientist who carried out pioneering work in neuroscience at Trinity College, Cambridge . He was the son of Francis Robert and Katharine Mary (née Riddle) Lucas. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated BA with
152-456: The 50th anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps. Transport Command was renamed Air Support Command on 1 August 1967. With the contraction of the RAF, Air Support Command only lasted a short time as a command, and it was absorbed into Strike Command on 1 September 1972. The grass runway was not wholly appropriate for heavy fixed-wing aircraft , nor any kind of jet aircraft , and so the airfield
171-567: The British Army and the airfield became an Army garrison called Trenchard Lines . When the army first moved into Upavon, it became home to Headquarters Doctrine & Training. On 30 January 1995, it then became Headquarters Adjutant General . In April 2008 HQ Adjutant General was absorbed within the newly formed HQ Land Forces under 'Project Hyperion'. The new merged HQ LF was to be at Andover to use surplus real estate made available by Defence Equipment and Support . The two organisations merged organisationally on 1 April 2008, but preparing
190-552: The surname Keith-Lucas . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith-Lucas&oldid=1189188972 " Categories : Surnames Compound surnames English-language surnames Surnames of English origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
209-552: The Admiralty , was a passenger on a flight by a Farman MF.7 biplane while visiting Upavon. Two officers of the CFS at Upavon developed the bomb sight between 1914–1915, and this was used in a very successful manner at the Western Front . The first Unmanned Aerial Target aircraft were tested on the site on 21 March 1917, witnessed by 30–40 allied generals. The officers' mess ,
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#1733094525278228-597: The Army Central Flying School . Captain Godfrey M Paine, RN , became the first commandant , with Major Hugh Trenchard being his assistant. Trenchard later became the chief of air staff , and subsequently became known as the "father of the Royal Air Force". During 1913 the first night landing made in England was achieved at Upavon, by Lieutenant Cholmondeley. In May 1914, Winston Churchill , then First Lord of
247-558: The Beginning and Always". Construction began on 19 June 1912, on some training gallops, on an elevated site about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) east of Upavon village, near the edge of the Salisbury Plain , in the English county of Wiltshire . Upavon Airfield was originally created for pilots of the military and naval wings of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps (RFC), and became home to
266-452: The family name, and, as Alys Keith-Lucas, edited a short book giving his background together with reminiscences of him and a list of his publications. They had three sons, who each became professors: Alan Keith-Lucas , David Keith-Lucas and Bryan Keith-Lucas . This article about a British scientist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Upavon Aerodrome Royal Air Force Upavon , or more simply RAF Upavon ,
285-712: The processes of excitation ... Much of the work was only made possible by the highly ingenious improvements designed by the author in the apparatus used." During the First World War , as a captain in the Hampshire Aircraft Parks Royal Flying Corps (TA) , based at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough , he was engaged in experimental research into aerial navigation and early aeroplane compasses. Convinced that his experimental work in aviation would improve if he became
304-485: The same time, No.17 (Fighter) Squadron RAF moved to Upavon to join No.3 (Fighter) Squadron RAF , who had been at Upavon since 1924. For the next eight years, the two fighter squadrons developed both night flying and aviation fighting techniques. At the same time, they wooed the public all over the country with impressive air displays. In May 1934, both squadrons left Upavon for RAF Kenley , London, and were replaced at Upavon, for
323-530: Was last sighted some 800 mi (1,300 km) west of Galway heading for Newfoundland . The aircraft was never seen again and the fate of Minchin, Hamilton and Löwenstein-Wertheim remains a mystery. During August 1935, the Central Flying School was to return to Upavon and stayed there until it moved to RAF Little Rissington in Gloucestershire in April 1942. During this crucial period, the school's primary role
342-514: Was to train and supply flight instructors to the now increasing number of military flying schools. King George VI visited Upavon during the Second World War . Upavon became home to headquarters No. 38 Group in 1946 and home to headquarters RAF Transport Command in 1951. A new headquarters building for Transport Command was completed in the 1960s. On 16 June 1962, Upavon held a static and flying display, attended by Prince Philip , to mark
361-464: Was used as an administrative base and also became the home of No. 622 Volunteer Gliding Squadron , part of the Air Training Corps , who used static winch-launched gliders . As a result of major reorganisation of the Royal Air Force in the early 1990s, RAF Upavon became surplus to requirements, and the RAF was to permanently withdraw from Upavon. On 3 August 1993, the RAF handed over the site to
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