designing light aircraft, notably the Comper Swift
Relatives
Sir John Ninian Comper (Father)
Aviation career
First flight
1915
Racing career
Aircraft
Comper Swift
Nicholas Comper (29 April 1897 – 17 June 1939) was an English aviator and aircraft designer, whose most notable success was the 1930s Comper Swift monoplane racer.
NicholasComper (29 April 1897 – 17 June 1939) was an English aviator and aircraft designer, whose most notable success was the 1930s Comper Swift monoplane...
as Tony Comper, is a Canadian banker John Comper (1823–1903), Anglican Priest who served in the Episcopal Church in Scotland NicholasComper (1897–1939)...
Sir John Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a Scottish architect; one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects. His work almost...
the company’s first aircraft. The Swift was designed shortly after NicholasComper’s departure from the Royal Air Force to focus on the project. It was...
the low wing three-seat Mouse was a lone aircraft that won no races. NicholasComper had always hoped for wins in prestigious air races and the low wing...
late NicholasComper. On 6 April 1940 the name was changed to the Fane Aircraft Company Limited. The company's only aircraft was based on the Comper Scamp...
(1933–1934). In April 1929, after leaving the Royal Air Force, NicholasComper formed the Comper Aircraft Company Ltd, based at Hooton Park Aerodrome near...
The Comper Mouse was a 1930s British three-seat cabin monoplane designed by NicholasComper, and built by the Comper Aircraft Company at Heston Aerodrome...
The Comper Kite was a single-engined, two-seat touring monoplane built in the UK, derived from the contemporary Comper Streak racer. Only one was built...
aircraft. One of the members was Flight Lieutenant NicholasComper who became the Chief Designer. Comper and the club designed and built four aircraft with...
Riding, Richard (2003). "Database [article]: Comper Swift". Aeroplane Monthly. 31 (3): 73–90. "Comper Swift/between 1924 and his bizarre death in 1939...
10 mission to Mercury, invented the space tether NicholasComper (1897–1939) – designer of the Comper Swift Philip M. Condit (born 1941) – former CEO of...
67 Beulah Hill (now demolished). His son NicholasComper (1897–1939) was an aviator who designed the Comper Swift monoplane in the back garden. Edward...
officers to set up companies at Hooton: NicholasComper, whose Comper Aircraft Company designed and built the Comper Swift single-engined sporting monoplane;...
Reverend John Comper (1823–1903) was a Priest of the Episcopal Church in Scotland who dedicated his life to helping the street children and prostitutes...
RAF as an education officer. Here he met Flt. Lt. NicholasComper who went on to design the Comper Swift, that would later fly from London to Australia...
Champneys George Clarke Charles Robert Cockerell Frederick Codd Ninian Comper Lewis Nockalls Cottingham T. Lawrence Dale Thomas Newenham Deane Edwin Dolby...
originally designed by Sir Ninian Comper. Newquay Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel opened in 1911. Sebastian Comper designed the present church tower...