Frank Barnwell

Captain Frank Sowter Barnwell OBE AFC FRAeS BSc (23 November 1880 – 2 August 1938) was a Scottish aeronautical engineer.

Barnwell was born in Lewisham in south east London but the family moved to Glasgow the year after his birth.

He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, after which he served a six-year apprenticeship with the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of which his father was a partner, between 1898 and 1904.

The third, a mid-wing monoplane, was built during 1910 and flown by to win a prize for the first flight of over a mile in Scotland on 30 January 1911 at Causewayhead under the Wallace Monument.

The aircraft was thrown into the air when it struck a bump when taking off from Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport and then stalled, crashing onto a nearby road.