The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, Lord Grimthorpe and Alan Cobham.

Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).

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* Sir Alan Cobham, aviation pioneer

* Alan Cobham ( mathematician ), the namesake of the Cobham's thesis in the computational complexity theory

Sir Alan Cobham devised a method of in-flight refuelling in the 1930s.

In 1927, the Singapore I was made famous by Sir Alan Cobham, when he, his wife, and crew made a survey of Africa, and covered about 23, 000 miles.

* September 22 – Sir Alan Cobham sets out in an Airspeed Courier in a failed attempt to fly non-stop from England to India.

* July 22-September 1-Sir Alan Cobham and crew make a return flight between England and the Belgian Congo in a Short Valletta.

* November 17 – Sir Alan Cobham sets out from England in a Short Singapore to make an aerial survey of Africa.

Director Ken Annakin had been interested in aviation from his early years when Sir Alan Cobham gave him a flight in a biplane.

Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC ( 6 May 1894 – 21 October 1973 ) was an English aviation pioneer.

Sir Alan Cobham, at Hanworth Air Park, 12 April 1932

A member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, Alan Cobham became famous as a pioneer of long distance aviation.

Cover Sir Alan Cobham had attempted to fly to New York from the RMS Homeric.

He once remarked: " It's a full time job being Alan Cobham!

* Listen to Alan Cobham speaking in To Australia and Back in Six Minutes on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's website: ' Our Heroes of the Air '

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* Cobham's Flying Circus, an English flying circus ( barnstorming group ) started by Alan Cobham in 1932

During the 1930s many airshows and displays were held by aviators such as Amy Johnson and Alan Cobham, flying from a grass runway.

In 1923, a mail flight, flown by Alan Cobham, to Croydon carried passengers from a grass strip at Chelson Meadow, Plymouth.

In 1935, Martin Hearn, an ex-pilot and-ground engineer and who had previously worked for Alan Cobham ’ s Flying Circus as a wing walker and aerial trapeze artist, created Martin Hearn Ltd., employing a few mechanics to service the aircraft using the aerodrome.

In August 1926, 60, 000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport upon the arrival of aviation pioneer Alan Cobham when he landed his de Havilland DH. 50 floatplane, flown from England to Australia.

But who will act now and immediately to save the life of Alan Pope??

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

This is known through the writings of John of Salisbury, who is thought to have been a near exact contemporary student of Alan of Lille.

He had a bastard daughter, Marjorie, who married Sir Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia ( he died 1275 ), and had issue.

This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said " these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music ... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I ’ m about.

Among the famous mathematicians and cryptanalysts working there, the most influential and the best-known in later years was Alan Turing who is widely credited with being " The Father of Computer Science ".

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

Following Jim Mothersbaugh's departure, Bob Mothersbaugh found a new drummer in Alan Myers, who played with mechanical precision on a conventional, acoustic drum set.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

She had three children, Louisa ( 1873 – 1943 ), Margaret ( 1874 – 1875 ), who died of meningitis, and Alan ( 1877 – 1952 ).

* has new illustrations by Alan Lee, who draws Garm ( talking dog ) as a Mastiff instead of a Greyhound ( as Pauline Baynes had ).

Unlike Alan Jackson, who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines.

The concept of hyperlinks was further refined and extended to graphics by researchers at Xerox PARC, specifically Alan Kay, who went beyond text-based hyperlinks and used a GUI as the primary interface for the Xerox Alto computer.

* Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane, the actor who portrayed Dr Lazarus of Tev ' Meck on the Galaxy Quest TV show.

Alan is a pseudohermaphrodite who fights in the Second World War wearing women's underwear.

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

Alan Stivell, with his father Jord Cochevelou ( who recreated the Breton Celtic harp ), were at the origin of the revival of the Celtic harp ( in the 1970s ).

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

Recent philosophers who defended moral rationalism include R. M. Hare, Christine Korsgaard, Alan Gewirth, and Michael Smith ( 1994 ).

Nancy Graves, Ronald Davis, Howard Hodgkin, Larry Poons, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Alan Saret, Walter Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz and Peter Reginato were some of the younger artists who emerged during the era of late modernism that spawned the heyday of the art of the late 1960s.