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Original ~1910s Photo Post Card:
B. G. Hucks (autographed)
"The Man and the Machine
B. C. Hucks, The Airman, and the 70 H. P. Bleriot"
A rare piece of early aviation history - an original, autographed post card of famed British aviator, Bentfield Charles Hucks (25 October 1884 – 7 November 1918). The postcard was self-published by Hucks, likely ~1913 when he became famous for performing the first loop in an airplane by a Briton in his Blériot at Hendon airfield.
Hucks was an aviation innovator in the early 20th century. He is credited with the Hucks starter and many feats of test flying during the First World War, while working at Hendon for Airco.
Hucks gained his Royal Aero Club certificate (number 91) in May, 1911, flying a Blackburn monoplane. He joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) when war broke out in August, 1914, and was sent to the Western Front. But he was sent home invalid after an attack of pleurisy before working as a test pilot at Hendon, north-west London.
He died on 7 November 1918, just days before the end of the First World War, of double pneumonia. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
Will be shipped in photo mailer. Please see the other early aviation items I have listed in my store, Maxitivity.
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