First flown with the Thrush engine prior to the meeting, it was refitted with the Cherub, and first flown with this engine by Bert Hinkler at Lympne on 30 September 1924.
He had heard of the attempt to land an aircraft on Helvellyn earlier that month, but the flyers John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler had been delayed by weather and mechanic problems.
In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler (Harry Bonney's first cousin once removed), a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
Bert Jansch | Bert Williams | Bert Newton | Bert | Bert Lahr | Bert Kaempfert | Bert Bell | Bert (Sesame Street) | Bert Karlsson | Bert Hinkler | Bert Firman | Bert Campaneris | Bert Sutcliffe | Bert Parks | Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls | Bert Amato | Cindy & Bert | Bob Bert | Bert Wilson | Bert Cooper | Bert Anciaux | Bert Acosta | John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert | Bert Wright | Bert Wilson (broadcaster) | Bert Trautmann | Bert Thomas | Bert Sutcliffe Oval | Bert Sperling | Bert Schneider |
This was completed as the Type 611, test flown by Bert Hinkler at Hamble and then delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment by Cierva himself in Britain's first cross-country rotorcraft flight on 30 September that year.
The somewhat flat summit made the first British mountain-top landing of a plane possible, when John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler successfully landed and took off again, in 1926.
22 December 1926: John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), the chief test pilot of A.V.Roe Avro Manchester, land on Helvellyn in the Lake District (the first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain)