2-635-033 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Survivor of a terrible smash: Mr Sydney Pickles, the Caudron expert, 1913 (1934). Sydney Pickles (1894-1975) was an Australian aviator. He was chief test pilot for Short Brothers, the Blackburn Aeroplane Co, and the Fairey Aviation Co. Pickles served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Navy from 1914 and a was a pilot on air mail survey flights in Australia in 1920. From History of British Aviation 1908-1914, Volume II, by R. Dallas Brett [The Aviation Book Club, London, 1934]