Originally Posted by
longer ron
Louis Noel was Cert No 119 (1911)
from the
Leinster Reporter - Saturday 27 September 1913
Mr Louis Noel piloted the Grahame White aerial "char-a-banc" at Hendon on Sunday afternoon, when a world', record was established by the carrying of seven passengers for 17 minutes 35 secs.
...and, from the Wigton Advertiser, 25th October 1913
Probably the heaviest passenger ever carried in a flight ascended in a Grahame-White biplane, piloted by Mr. Louis Noel, at the London Aerodrome. Hendon. The passenger, Mrs. Emma Griffiths, wife of the vicar of Mathry, Pembrokeshire, weighed 19st. 10lb