George Miller Dyott

George Miller Dyott (6 February 1883 – 2 August 1972) was an English pioneer aviator, cinematographer, and explorer of the Amazon.

[1] Dyott was raised at his father's English home Freeford Hall in Staffordshire and educated at Bedford Grammar School.

Moore-Brabazon was the first to gain the newly devised certificate, on 8 March 1910 and Rolls, Grahame-White, Cody, Roe, Sopwith followed in that year, but de Havilland and Blackburn won theirs in 1911, only a few months before Dyott.

A highlight, literally, of the Nassau exhibition was a night flight in the two seater, with Hamilton as passenger, carrying a searchlight powered by the plane's motor.

[8] The day after his marriage to Persis Wright in 1928,[9] he mounted an expedition to search for the missing British explorer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon.

[13] It was billed as "the first all-talking nature picture"[13] and was supposedly shown to First Lady Mrs. Hoover in the White House theatre.

Dyott came out of retirement in 1947 and conducted his two final expeditions, which departed from Pillaro, Ecuador, venturing into the Llanganati Mountains in search of lost Inca Treasure.

Dyott monoplane being flown by Dyott circa 1913. The aircraft, a Morane-Saulnier, is here fitted with Bleriot landing gear.
"Honeymoon in the Jungle" newspaper clipping