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PIONEER AIR DESIGNER MARRIED LAST MONTH. It has just been revealed that Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith, one of the pioneers of British aviation, was married last month in London to Mrs. Fhyllis Leslie, daughter of the late Mr. S. Gordon, of the 'Indian CiVil Service, and Mrs. Gordon, of Connaught Square. Mr. Sopwith learned to fly in 1910, and in the same year won -the prize of £4000 offered by Baron de Forest for the longest flight by a British aeroplane from England to the Continent. He fiew from Eastehurch ,to Beaumont, Belgium, a distance of 190 miles, in three and a half hours. This success led him to foupd the Sopwith Aviation Company in 1912, and in 1914 a Sopwith seaplane won the Sehneider Trophy for Britain for the first time. During the war Mr. Sopwith desiged the famous rapge of fighting aircraft that bore his name.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 289, 1 August 1932, Page 2
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