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Havilland, Sir Geoffrey de (1882–1965), aircraft and aero-engine designer and manufacturer, was born at Magdala House, Terriers Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on 27 July 1882, second of three sons of the Revd Charles de Havilland (1854–1920) and his first wife, Alice Jeannette (1854–1911), daughter of Jason Saunders, of Medley Manor, Oxfordshire.
27 de jul. de 2016 · De Havilland continued flying up to the age of 70. In 1918, de Havilland was made an OBE, and was honoured with a CBE in 1934. He received the Air Force Cross in 1919, in recognition of his service in the First World War, and was knighted in 1944. Geoffrey de Havilland died aged 82, of a cerebral haemorrhage, on 21 May 1965.
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882-1965), Aircraft and aero-engine designer and manufacturer. Sitter in 16 portraits Aircraft designer and founder of the De Havilland Aircraft Company (1920) which made the Moth and other long-distance planes including the Mosquito which his company produced during the Second World War.
4 de jul. de 2016 · Sky Fever, The Autobiography of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland.Hamish Hamilton. London. 1961. 240 pp. Illustrated. 25s. - Volume 66 Issue 622
5 de may. de 2015 · The aviation pioneer died on May 21st, 1965. Geoffrey de Havilland, c.1925. The man who created the Tiger Moth, the Mosquito and the Comet taught himself to fly and started building his first airplane in 1908. He took off in it for the first and only time the following year after many hours vainly taxiing it around.
A statue of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was unveiled by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Hertfordshire on 30 July 1997. A fleet of 43 de Havilland-related aeroplanes flew over in salute, thought to be the biggest flypast of civil aircraft held in the country since before the Second World War.
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland [1] ( High Wycombe, 27 juli 1882 - Watford, 21 mei 1965) was een Britse luchtvaartpionier en ingenieur. Hij was de ontwerper van onder meer de De Havilland Mosquito, een van de meest succesvolle vliegtuigen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog . Geoffrey de Havilland werd in 1882 geboren als zoon van Charles de ...
