Who married Robert Smith-Barry?

  • Kathleen Beatrice Melita Cockburn married Robert Smith-Barry on . Robert Smith-Barry was 27 years old on the wedding day (27 years, 3 months and 29 days).

  • Anne Gertrude Garnier married Robert Smith-Barry on . Robert Smith-Barry was 60 years old on the wedding day (60 years, 6 months and 18 days).

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Robert Smith-Barry

Robert Raymond Smith Barry (4 April 1886 – 23 April 1949) was an officer in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force. His most notable contribution was in developing flying instruction methods.

In December 1916 he masterminded a complete reorganisation of flying training methods at Gosport. This new training method later became known as the "Gosport System" and was adopted worldwide. The curriculum combined classroom training and dual flight instruction. Students were not led away from potentially dangerous manoeuvres but deliberately exposed to them in controlled environments so they could learn to recover from errors of judgement. The choice of training aircraft later settled on the Avro 504J.

Smith-Barry was later described by Lord Trenchard as the man who "taught the air forces of the world how to fly".

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Kathleen Beatrice Melita Cockburn

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Anne Gertrude Garnier

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