“CAPTAIN KETTLE.”
AIR FORCE PROTOTYPE. COMMODORE SAMSON TO RETIRE LONDON, Sept. 28. Air-Commodore Samson, who led the Royal Air Force flight to Capetown in April, and who has been nicknamed the “Captain Kettle of the Air Force,” owing to his dapporness, his short build, and his rakish beard, will shortly retire.
One of England’s aerial pioneers, he took his pilot’s certificate in 1911, made the first cross-ocuntry night flight, the first ascent from a moving warship, and flew the first seaplane. Air-Commodore Samson, whose exploits raised the admiration of the A.1.F., served in the Dardanelles and in France. He brought down so r; c--” and he was so feared by the enemy that a price of Liuoo ws . his head.
His life has been packed with thrills. He is probably the only man with such a record of pioneering, war service, and post-war flying who has lived to retire.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 272, 15 October 1927, Page 9
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