Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders

Richard Leonard Howard-Flanders FRSA AMIMechE (1882 – 1939) was an early British aircraft designer and manufacturer.

Richard Leonard Flanders (later Howard-Flanders) was born in Italy to British parents in 1882.

He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then served an engineering apprenticeship at Brazil Straker and Company of Bristol.

[1] He designed a built a series of monoplanes including the Flanders F.4 that was entered in the Military Trials of 1912.

[1] In 1921 he was registered with the Teachers Registration Council when he was Assistant Master at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1920 to 1923[2] In the 1930s he was secretary of the British Gliding Association.