various weapons and bombs to aircraft. During the war itself he flew the first night patrol mission against an expected German raid on 5 September 1914. Grahame-White trained several women to fly and he had formed the Women's Aerial League in 1909. The membership of this league included test pilot Mrs Winifred Buller, Lady Anne Savile and Eleanor Trehawke Davies and the suffragette leaders Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. He established a flying school at Hendon Aerodrome. Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks, the second British woman to gain a Royal Aero Club aviator's licence, trained at the school, earning her certificate in November 1911. In 1912 Grahame-White gave H.G. Wells his first flight. The Aerodrome was lent to the Admiralty (1916), and eventually taken over by the RAF in 1919. Grahame-White's aerodrome was purchased by the RAF in 1925, after a protracted legal struggle. After this he lost his interest in aviation, eventually moving to Nice in his old age, where he died in 1959 having made a fortune in property development in the UK and US. Hendon Aerodrome later became RAF Hendon but after flying ceased there in the 1960s it was then largely redeveloped as a housing estate which was named Grahame Park in tribute to Grahame-White. An original World War I Grahame-White aircraft factory hangar was relocated a few years ago to the Royal Air Force Museum London, where it houses the museum's World War I collection and is named the Grahame White Factory. Grahame-White was a co-founder of Aerofilms Limited in 1919. Grahame-White Aviation Company In 1911 The Grahame-White Aviation Company was formed to cover his aviation interests, including aerodromes and aircraft design, development, and construction. One of the designers, John Dudley North, became Boulton & Paul's chief designer. Aircraft built by the Grahame-White Aviation Company included: Grahame-White Baby Grahame-White Type VI Grahame-White Type VII "Popular" Grahame-White Type IX Monoplane Grahame-White Type X Charabanc Grahame-White "Lizzie" Grahame-White Type XI Grahame-White Type XIII Circuit of Britain biplane/scout Grahame-White Type XIV (License-built Morane-Saulnier G) Grahame-White Type XV Grahame-White Type 18 Grahame-White G.W.19 (License-built Breguet Bre.5) Grahame-White Type 20 Scout (Prototype only) Grahame-White Type 21 Scout (Prototype only) Grahame-White Sommer-biplane Grahame-White G.W.E.IV Ganymede Grahame-White G.W.E.VI Bantam Grahame-White G.W.E.VII Limousine Publications As well as his success in aviation, Claude Grahame-White was a published author whose works include: The Story of the Aeroplane The Aeroplane, Past, Present, and Future, 1911 The Aeroplane in