S/Ldr Robert English was my uncle, so that ties that up and I'm grateful for all the information provided. He achieved fame later in life by starting the Gliding for the Disabled scheme which enhanced so many blighted lives in a way that nothing else could. He also bought and used as a business tool a Wallis Autogyro; he flew it to inspect farm buildings his company had put up in East Anglia.
l just wish that I had known before that what he was involved with was the Windsor; I could have asked him all about it.
I thought for a moment that Nat Somers and Mutt Summers might be one and the same, but they were not. Nat went on to design and build the first and only single engine jet light aircraft (4 seater, incredibly advanced for its time), while Mutt Summers was a test pilot on the Supermarine Swift, I believe, along with lots of other amazing things.
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