Mr Alan Bruce Hamilton 'Jimmy' Youell | ||
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One of the original 16 pilots of Imperial Airways in 1924 b. 10 Feb 1900 in Portsea Island, Hants. RAeC certificate 4909 (1917). Awarded Master Pilot's Certificate March 1926: "Like the Swallow. Captain B. Yulle (sic), the Imperial Airways pilot, set a record on Thursday when he flew from London to Amsterdam, a distance of 267 miles, in 100 minutes. Railway Air Services post-war. "October 13, 1947 – A helicopter flies in Switzerland for the first time. It is the Bell 47B G-AKCX of the Irvin-Bell Helicopters Sales presented near the Allmend in Zürich-Wollishofen by the British pilot Alan Bruce Hamilton 'Jimmy' Youell." "On 14 June 1949, he became the first person to fly a helicopter in Iceland when he flew a Bell 47D TF-HET. It was on loan from Bell Aircraft Corporation to test the feasibility of the Icelandic government to purchase it. Youell also trained the first two Icelandic helicopter pilots during the same summer." Apparently, It was "difficult to reach a conclusion in the Althingi on whether to buy the helicopter or not, and in the end it was sent back out of the country"
d. 19 April 1961 'in or near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia'
With thanks to Sturla Stigsson for the Icelandic flight research. |