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- 1914 (Creation)
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4to, 1 volume
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Hamel, Gustav Wilhelm, son of Gustav Hamel, M. D., M. V. O., of London; b. June 25, 1889; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1907; became a pupil at the Blériot flying ground at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1910; took his pilot's certificate in Feb. 1911; was the first official aerial postman; made his first cross-Channel flight from Boulogne to Wembley Park Oct. 11, 1911, and his first cross-Channel flight with a passenger in 1912; won the first 'Aerial Derby' a flight of 81 miles round London, June 8, 1912, and the second 'Aerial Derby' in the following year; flew from Dover to Cologne with a passenger in four hours and eighteen mins. in 1913; looped the loop fourteen times before the King at Windsor Feb. 2, 1914; author of Flying : Some Practical Experiences (1914); drowned in the Channel while flying from Paris to Hendon May 23, 1914; unm.
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Access to rare books is granted to bona-fide researchers, by prior appointment, in cases where the item in unavailable at another UK repository.
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- English
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- Latin
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- English
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- Latin