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4 unusual facts about L. E. Baynes


L. E. Baynes

During the Second World War, Baynes was the aviation adviser to Alan Muntz & Co at Heston Aerodrome, specialists in weapons systems, and he organized an aircraft division of the company.

Following the death of John Carden in December 1935, in April 1936, Baynes set up Carden-Baynes Aircraft at Heston Aerodrome, and designed the Carden-Baynes Bee, a two-seat wooden aircraft with two Carden-Ford engines in pusher configuration.

Baynes designed the Youngman-Baynes High Lift, an experimental, flying test-bed for the system of slotted flaps invented by R.T. Youngman.

In 1930, Baynes designed the Scud light sailplane, built at first by Brant Aircraft Limited at Croydon.


Augustan History

Others, such as Norman H. Baynes, abandoned the early 4th century date but only advanced it as far as the reign of Julian the Apostate (useful for arguing the work was intended as pagan propaganda).

Norman H. Baynes

Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes (1877–1961) was a noted 20th century British historian of the Byzantine Empire.

The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 – August 1939

It was edited by Professor Norman Hepburn Baynes who translated from the German at times with a self-confessed difficulty due to a ‘diffuseness‘ in National Socialist terminology.

Villiers Engineering

In 1936, L. E. Baynes and Sir John Carden, trading as Carden-Baynes Aircraft of Heston Aerodrome, launched the Carden-Baynes Auxiliary, a light aircraft which was essentially a motorized Abbott-Baynes Scud 3 glider.


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