George Herbert Scott

Major George Herbert Lucky Breeze Scott, CBE, AFC, was a noted British airship pilot and engineer. After serving in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force during World War I, Scott went on to command the airship R34 on its return Atlantic crossing in 1919, which marked the first transatlantic flight by an airship and the first eastwest transatlantic flight by an aircraft of any kind. Subsequently, he worked at the Royal Airship Works in connection with the Imperial Airship Scheme and took part in a second return Atlantic crossing, this time by the R100, in 1930. He was killed later in the year aboard the R100s nearsister, the R101, when it crashed in northern France during a flight to India.

Scott was born in Lewisham, London, onMay 1888, the eldest son of civil engineer George Hall Scott and his wife, Margaret Wilkinson. He attended Alton School in Plymouth Richmond School, Yorkshire and the Royal Naval Engineering College, then located at Keyham, Plymouth. From 1908 onwards, Scott was engaged in general engineering immediately before World War I, he worked on the construction of naval vessels at the Sociedad Espaola de Construccin Naval in Ferrol, Spain.

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