Colonel John Cyril Porte (1884-1919)

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Colonel John Cyril Porte (1884-1919)
Here we see Colonel John Cyril Porte (1884-1919), an aircraft designer who served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, designing the Felixstowe F.2A, Felixstowe F.3 and Felixstowe F.4 Fury flying boats, which were used extensively on anti-submarine patrols around the British coast.
The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War, David Hobbs. An impressive history of the RNAS, the organisation that developed many of the principles of naval aviation while under intense pressure during the First World War, only to disappear into the RAF in 1918. Traces the impressive development of the service, which ended the war on the verge of attempting a massed torpedo bomber attack on the German fleet in its anchorages, a precursor of Taranto and Pearl Harbor that was only abandoned because of the end of the war (Read Full Review)
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (13 December 2024), Colonel John Cyril Porte (1884-1919) , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_porte_J_C.html

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