G. L. GIPPS -1914

 

""English Aviator Killed," Knoxville Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee: January 27, 1914, Transcribed by Bob Davis - 2-26-07 "London, Jan. 26. - An aviation instructor named Gipps was killed today while flying at Salisbury Plain. A passenger was seriously injured."

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "G. L. Gipps", using the Google search engine, (2-27-07), you will find just one relative link.

 

The Bristol Aeroplane Company The Daily Mail £10,000 Prize 22 July - 7 August 1911      On page 19 of this extensive website of The Bristol Aeroplane Company, you will find a brief reference to a "G. L. Gipps.": "G.L. Gipps was killed when he crashed in a Bristol Prier monoplane, with F. Warren Merriam as his instructor in January 1914."      You can access the page by clicking on the title above. You may want to use the FIND function on "Gipps" to locate the item on the page.

 

G. L. Gipps died on January 26, 1914. Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back