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Now I will tell you a little story about my name,and why I was christened 'Barry' you see there is more to it than meets the eye,during the last war and just afterwards the name was very popular,names just happen like that suddenly a pop star or personality makes the news and people christen them after that person,but in my own case it was for a very different reason that is very special to me,now let me start at the beginning-
Just after World War one it became obvious that more pilots were lost through accidents in aircraft than at first expected,the reason was that these youngsters were thrown into action with little or no real experience of flying,sometimes as little as 8 to 12 hours if you were lucky on frail slow aircraft that could have nasty characteristics,these fledgling pilots knew nothing about spinning and its consequences,they found out the hard way by experience that is if they lived ?
The Royal Naval Air Service as it was then called realised that something should be done to standardise flying and to bring with it quality instruction,to this end they appointed a chap called 'Smith Barry' to set up a flying school that would standardise on flying instruction,using the old Avro 504 biplane he did just that,and with his no nonsense approach not only taught people to fly safely,but wrote everything down to make the very first standard flying manuals that even in todays civil flying clubs owe a lot to the Smith Barry School of flying at Gosport.
So where does the gosport tube bit fit in ? well in those far flung days there was no sophisticated small intercom sets like today,instead a rubber tube with a mouth piece was rigged between pilot and instructor,to communicate you just literally yelled into the tube,sometimes a deafening experience especially if the instructor was angry,the system became well known as the 'Gosport tube' and was fitted into aircraft up until WW2 such as the Tiger Moth and Miles Magister.
So there you have it,my name belongs to the most famous person involved with standard pocedures in flying tuition,and I am very proud of that fact.
The pseudo Wonwinglo came a lit later,and was connected to a well known forum ? so perhaps in some way that too was a direct offshoot from when pilots flew 'One Wing Low' at the Smith Barry school of flying ?

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'And there I was oil on my goggles from a broken pipe,then I looked at the altimeter,all I could see was the makers name !'
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