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3 unusual facts about Cyril Uwins


Cyril Uwins

He flew with 13 and 64 Squadrons before being transferred to Farnborough as a ferry pilot.

On 1 May 1919 he was demobilized from the Royal Air Force and formally joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the same day made the first post-war civil air flight in Britain when he flew the Bristol Company's general manager, Herbert Thomas, from Filton to Hounslow in a Bristol Tourer.

Junkers Ju 49

Flyers like Cyril Uwins - 13,408 m (43,990 ft) in a Vickers Vespa in September 1932 - and Renato Donati - 14,433 m (47,385 ft) in a Caproni Ca 114 in late 1933 - took this route, sitting in open cockpits.



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Bristol Type 101

Continued as a private venture, it first flew at Filton on 8 August 1927, piloted by Cyril Uwins, registered G-EBOW.