Rather interesting Isle of Sheppey facts
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Did you know that the world’s first aircraft factory was opened on Sheppey by the Short Bros in 1909? They began by building Wright Flyer aircraft there.
Did you know that here on May 2 1909 John Moore-Brabazon became the first Briton to fly in an aeroplane? His flight was just 500 yards, made in a French-manufactured Voisin ‘Bird of Passage’ aircraft. Brabazon quickly thereafter gained the first UK pilot’s licence, and in 1941 the pioneer, soon to become Lord Brabazon of Tara, became Minister of Aircraft Production.
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