[1] In 1911 Horatio Barber, who was a founder member of the Royal Aero Club, was given £100 for a commercial flight.
Not wanting to tarnish his amateur status, he presented the money to the club for the trophy.
In 1952 the Royal Aero Club presented plaques to all the surviving holders who previously only held the trophy for one year and were not given a permanent memento.
After a distance of 41.2Nm, the crew landed, put up an emergency shelter and made a nice cup of tea.
On his first journey in 2016 he flew round Africa solo in a VFR helicopter through 23 different countries, completing 16,600 nm in 73 days and setting three world records.