Robert Loraine
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Robert Loraine was a successful Broadway and London stage actor, actor-manager and soldier who later enjoyed a side career as a pioneer aviator
. Born in New Brighton, England his father was Henry Loraine and Robert made his first stage appearance in the English provinces in 1889. He served in the Boer War 1899-1902. He introduced the George Bernard Shaw play Man and Superman to Broadway in 1905.
In 1909 Loraine took up the new technology of aviation
learning first to fly at the Bleriot
school at Pau, France. He then switched to the easier to fly Farman
biplanes on which he achieved great fame. He is believed to have been the first person to coin the phrase Joystick
to describe aircraft stick controls.
Aviator
An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...
. Born in New Brighton, England his father was Henry Loraine and Robert made his first stage appearance in the English provinces in 1889. He served in the Boer War 1899-1902. He introduced the George Bernard Shaw play Man and Superman to Broadway in 1905.
In 1909 Loraine took up the new technology of aviation
Aviation
Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
learning first to fly at the Bleriot
Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft, when he crossed the English Channel. For this achievement, he received a prize of £1,000...
school at Pau, France. He then switched to the easier to fly Farman
Farman III
|-See also:-Bibliography:*Opdycke, Leonard E French Aeroplanes Before the Great War Atglen, PA: Schiffer 1999 ISBN 0 7643 0752 5-External links:**...
biplanes on which he achieved great fame. He is believed to have been the first person to coin the phrase Joystick
Joystick
A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Joysticks, also known as 'control columns', are the principal control in the cockpit of many civilian and military aircraft, either as a center stick or...
to describe aircraft stick controls.