Brian Waugh
Aircraft engineer, military and commercial aviator, airline operator, meteorologist
Brian Kynaston Waugh (1922–1984) was a notable English-born New Zealand aircraft engineer, military and commercial aviator, airline operator, and meteorologist.
Early years
Brian Kynaston Waugh was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on 26 September 1922. The younger of two sons of an electrical engineer and his wife, he became interested in aviation after his father, Walter Waugh, took up a supervisory role in the construction of a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Shropshire. In August 1938, Waugh joined the RAF, participating in the service's apprentice training scheme.
Second World War
By 1941 Waugh was serving in South Africa. While there, he applied to train as a pilot, was accepted and duly gained his wings on 24 September 1943. In the latter part of the war, he served with No. 75 (NZ) Squadron on Avro Lancaster heavy bombers. Night raids to Germany included Bremen, the Leuna Oil Refinery at Merseburg, the Howaldt Works, and the inner dockyard at Kiel where the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was capsized. Continuing Lancaster flying, he dropped food to the starving Dutch at The Hague in Operation Manna, ferried Belgian refugees home, repatriated Allied Prisoners of War, and flew long scenic (Baedeker) flights over Germany, Belgium and Denmark.
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