Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, FS, FRAS, FRMetS (22 May 1860 – 3 October 1937) was the youngest child of Baden Powell, and the brother of Robert Baden-Powell, Warington Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, Agnes Baden-Powell and Frank Baden-Powell.
His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.
He wrote, "In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891", published in 1892 by R.Bentley and Son, London.
Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. He also wrote, "BALLOONING AS A SPORT", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons
He built his first balloons and planes with his elder sister Agnes. Invented a man-carrying kite system which he called the Levitor. He also developed a collapsible military bicycle.
He was in the Relief Column that relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.
He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.
Scouting
Baden-Powell was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting, in the form of kite and model aeroplane building. He can be considered the founder of Air Scouting even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.
Baden-Powell was President and later District Commissioner of a North London District, was District Commissioner of Sevenoaks District, Kent between 1918 and 1935, and was Headquarters Commissioner for Aviation from 1923, until his death in 1937.
A photo of Major Baden Baden-Powell, taken in his later life, looks like a character straight out of Kipling. Born in 1860, Baden-Powell lived most of his life in that British empire upon which the sun never set. Sun-burnt, mustached, hard-eyed, with a chest full of medals, he was a creature of another age.
Yet Baden-Powell wasn't quite what he appeared to be. He did join the Scots Guards at the age of 21. He saw action in the service of his Queen -- the Nile campaign, the Boer War, even WW-I. Throughout all that, his passion was not war, but flight.
You might recognize his name because his older brother, the Baron Robert Baden-Powell, is famous for founding the Boy Scouts. But young Baden Baden-Powell wanted to fly.
In 1880 he joined the Royal Aeronautical Society and soon decided they were too much talk, not enough action. So he bought his own balloon and learned to fly it. Within a year of joining the army, he was lecturing on military uses of lighter-than-air flight.
By that time, the American Army had made good use of observation balloons in the Civil War, and the French had used balloons to get mail out of Paris during the German siege of 1870.
In 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight. But he was a gadfly, a pot-stirrer, and a gatherer of information about flight. And his interests soon turned to man-carrying reconnaissance kites. (The Chinese had flown humans in kites 1300 years before him, but no one had done it in the West.) Baden-Powell developed a system of four kites along a rope, and it carried him as far as 300 feet up in a basket chair.
The Aeronautical Society had dwindled to three members when Baden-Powell set out to rebuild it. When he wrote to the great scientist, Lord Kelvin, Kelvin replied that he had "not a molecule of faith" in flight. No matter. Baden-Powell also wrote an article that spoke with a prescience worthy of Nostradamus.
What will the good citizens of London say when they see a hostile dynamite-carrying aerostat hovering over St. Paul's?
Forty-two years later we saw the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral by night, standing dimly against the smoke and flame of German bombs.
After his kites, Baden-Powell built gliders, then a powered airplane. He touched all aspects of flight. He really did rebuild the Aeronautical Society -- and he drove England to build the base of knowledge it needed to catch up with America and France.
A shy man; a stern man; a man with eyes that gaze outward and bore into you, but which look inward; a firmly controlled face; an uncomfortable mouth -- medals polished, buttons aligned. This is no warrior after all. Neither is it really an inventor. This is a visionary who has seen, with eerie clarity, a new world that he is bound to share with us.
Pritchard, J. L., Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell, Honorary Fellow, (1860-1937), An Appreciation. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 60, January 1956, pp. 9-24.
Revd Professor Baden Powell& Henrietta Grace Powell(Smyth)
Brother of Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell; Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell; Augustus Smyth Powell; Francis Smyth Baden-Powell; Henrietta Smyth Powell; John Penrose Smyth Powell; Jessie Smyth Powell; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell
Half brother of Charlotte Elizabeth Powell; Baden Henry Powell; Louisa Ann Powell and Laetitia Mary Powell
His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.
He wrote, "In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891", published in 1892 by R.Bentley and Son, London.
Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. He also wrote, "BALLOONING AS A SPORT", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons
He built his first balloons and planes with his elder sister Agnes. Invented a man-carrying kite system which he called the Levitor. He also developed a collapsible military bicycle.
He was in the Relief Column that relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.
He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.
Scouting
Baden-Powell was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting, in the form of kite and model aeroplane building. He can be considered the founder of Air Scouting even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.
Baden-Powell was President and later District Commissioner of a North London District, was District Commissioner of Sevenoaks District, Kent between 1918 and 1935, and was Headquarters Commissioner for Aviation from 1923, until his death in 1937.
A photo of Major Baden Baden-Powell, taken in his later life, looks like a character straight out of Kipling. Born in 1860, Baden-Powell lived most of his life in that British empire upon which the sun never set. Sun-burnt, mustached, hard-eyed, with a chest full of medals, he was a creature of another age.
Yet Baden-Powell wasn't quite what he appeared to be. He did join the Scots Guards at the age of 21. He saw action in the service of his Queen -- the Nile campaign, the Boer War, even WW-I. Throughout all that, his passion was not war, but flight.
You might recognize his name because his older brother, the Baron Robert Baden-Powell, is famous for founding the Boy Scouts. But young Baden Baden-Powell wanted to fly.
In 1880 he joined the Royal Aeronautical Society and soon decided they were too much talk, not enough action. So he bought his own balloon and learned to fly it. Within a year of joining the army, he was lecturing on military uses of lighter-than-air flight.
By that time, the American Army had made good use of observation balloons in the Civil War, and the French had used balloons to get mail out of Paris during the German siege of 1870.
In 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight. But he was a gadfly, a pot-stirrer, and a gatherer of information about flight. And his interests soon turned to man-carrying reconnaissance kites. (The Chinese had flown humans in kites 1300 years before him, but no one had done it in the West.) Baden-Powell developed a system of four kites along a rope, and it carried him as far as 300 feet up in a basket chair.
The Aeronautical Society had dwindled to three members when Baden-Powell set out to rebuild it. When he wrote to the great scientist, Lord Kelvin, Kelvin replied that he had "not a molecule of faith" in flight. No matter. Baden-Powell also wrote an article that spoke with a prescience worthy of Nostradamus.
What will the good citizens of London say when they see a hostile dynamite-carrying aerostat hovering over St. Paul's?
Forty-two years later we saw the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral by night, standing dimly against the smoke and flame of German bombs.
After his kites, Baden-Powell built gliders, then a powered airplane. He touched all aspects of flight. He really did rebuild the Aeronautical Society -- and he drove England to build the base of knowledge it needed to catch up with America and France.
A shy man; a stern man; a man with eyes that gaze outward and bore into you, but which look inward; a firmly controlled face; an uncomfortable mouth -- medals polished, buttons aligned. This is no warrior after all. Neither is it really an inventor. This is a visionary who has seen, with eerie clarity, a new world that he is bound to share with us.
Pritchard, J. L., Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell, Honorary Fellow, (1860-1937), An Appreciation. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 60, January 1956, pp. 9-24.
Revd Professor Baden Powell& Henrietta Grace Powell(Smyth)
Brother of Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell; Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell; Augustus Smyth Powell; Francis Smyth Baden-Powell; Henrietta Smyth Powell; John Penrose Smyth Powell; Jessie Smyth Powell; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell
Half brother of Charlotte Elizabeth Powell; Baden Henry Powell; Louisa Ann Powell and Laetitia Mary Powell
Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, FS, FRAS, FRMetS (22 May 1860 – 3 October 1937) was the youngest child of Baden Powell, and the brother of Robert Baden-Powell, Warington Baden-Powell, George Baden-Powell, Agnes Baden-Powell and Frank Baden-Powell.
His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.
He wrote, "In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891", published in 1892 by R.Bentley and Son, London.
Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. He also wrote, "BALLOONING AS A SPORT", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons
He built his first balloons and planes with his elder sister Agnes. Invented a man-carrying kite system which he called the Levitor. He also developed a collapsible military bicycle.
He was in the Relief Column that relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.
He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.
Scouting
Baden-Powell was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting, in the form of kite and model aeroplane building. He can be considered the founder of Air Scouting even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.
Baden-Powell was President and later District Commissioner of a North London District, was District Commissioner of Sevenoaks District, Kent between 1918 and 1935, and was Headquarters Commissioner for Aviation from 1923, until his death in 1937.
A photo of Major Baden Baden-Powell, taken in his later life, looks like a character straight out of Kipling. Born in 1860, Baden-Powell lived most of his life in that British empire upon which the sun never set. Sun-burnt, mustached, hard-eyed, with a chest full of medals, he was a creature of another age.
Yet Baden-Powell wasn't quite what he appeared to be. He did join the Scots Guards at the age of 21. He saw action in the service of his Queen -- the Nile campaign, the Boer War, even WW-I. Throughout all that, his passion was not war, but flight.
You might recognize his name because his older brother, the Baron Robert Baden-Powell, is famous for founding the Boy Scouts. But young Baden Baden-Powell wanted to fly.
In 1880 he joined the Royal Aeronautical Society and soon decided they were too much talk, not enough action. So he bought his own balloon and learned to fly it. Within a year of joining the army, he was lecturing on military uses of lighter-than-air flight.
By that time, the American Army had made good use of observation balloons in the Civil War, and the French had used balloons to get mail out of Paris during the German siege of 1870.
In 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight. But he was a gadfly, a pot-stirrer, and a gatherer of information about flight. And his interests soon turned to man-carrying reconnaissance kites. (The Chinese had flown humans in kites 1300 years before him, but no one had done it in the West.) Baden-Powell developed a system of four kites along a rope, and it carried him as far as 300 feet up in a basket chair.
The Aeronautical Society had dwindled to three members when Baden-Powell set out to rebuild it. When he wrote to the great scientist, Lord Kelvin, Kelvin replied that he had "not a molecule of faith" in flight. No matter. Baden-Powell also wrote an article that spoke with a prescience worthy of Nostradamus.
What will the good citizens of London say when they see a hostile dynamite-carrying aerostat hovering over St. Paul's?
Forty-two years later we saw the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral by night, standing dimly against the smoke and flame of German bombs.
After his kites, Baden-Powell built gliders, then a powered airplane. He touched all aspects of flight. He really did rebuild the Aeronautical Society -- and he drove England to build the base of knowledge it needed to catch up with America and France.
A shy man; a stern man; a man with eyes that gaze outward and bore into you, but which look inward; a firmly controlled face; an uncomfortable mouth -- medals polished, buttons aligned. This is no warrior after all. Neither is it really an inventor. This is a visionary who has seen, with eerie clarity, a new world that he is bound to share with us.
Pritchard, J. L., Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell, Honorary Fellow, (1860-1937), An Appreciation. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 60, January 1956, pp. 9-24.
Revd Professor Baden Powell& Henrietta Grace Powell(Smyth)
Brother of Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell; Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell; Augustus Smyth Powell; Francis Smyth Baden-Powell; Henrietta Smyth Powell; John Penrose Smyth Powell; Jessie Smyth Powell; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell
Half brother of Charlotte Elizabeth Powell; Baden Henry Powell; Louisa Ann Powell and Laetitia Mary Powell
His mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of Rev. Baden Powell (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist.
He wrote, "In savage isles and settled lands. Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888-1891", published in 1892 by R.Bentley and Son, London.
Baden-Powell was a military aviation pioneer and a Fellow and later President of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the first to see the use of aviation in a military context. He also wrote, "BALLOONING AS A SPORT", published in 1907 by William Blackwood and Sons
He built his first balloons and planes with his elder sister Agnes. Invented a man-carrying kite system which he called the Levitor. He also developed a collapsible military bicycle.
He was in the Relief Column that relieved the siege of Mafeking, where his elder brother was in command.
He contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition entry on 'kite-flying'.
Scouting
Baden-Powell was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting, in the form of kite and model aeroplane building. He can be considered the founder of Air Scouting even though he thought it was hardly feasible to have special 'Air Scouts'.
Baden-Powell was President and later District Commissioner of a North London District, was District Commissioner of Sevenoaks District, Kent between 1918 and 1935, and was Headquarters Commissioner for Aviation from 1923, until his death in 1937.
A photo of Major Baden Baden-Powell, taken in his later life, looks like a character straight out of Kipling. Born in 1860, Baden-Powell lived most of his life in that British empire upon which the sun never set. Sun-burnt, mustached, hard-eyed, with a chest full of medals, he was a creature of another age.
Yet Baden-Powell wasn't quite what he appeared to be. He did join the Scots Guards at the age of 21. He saw action in the service of his Queen -- the Nile campaign, the Boer War, even WW-I. Throughout all that, his passion was not war, but flight.
You might recognize his name because his older brother, the Baron Robert Baden-Powell, is famous for founding the Boy Scouts. But young Baden Baden-Powell wanted to fly.
In 1880 he joined the Royal Aeronautical Society and soon decided they were too much talk, not enough action. So he bought his own balloon and learned to fly it. Within a year of joining the army, he was lecturing on military uses of lighter-than-air flight.
By that time, the American Army had made good use of observation balloons in the Civil War, and the French had used balloons to get mail out of Paris during the German siege of 1870.
In 1894, Baden-Powell made the first British military balloon flight. But he was a gadfly, a pot-stirrer, and a gatherer of information about flight. And his interests soon turned to man-carrying reconnaissance kites. (The Chinese had flown humans in kites 1300 years before him, but no one had done it in the West.) Baden-Powell developed a system of four kites along a rope, and it carried him as far as 300 feet up in a basket chair.
The Aeronautical Society had dwindled to three members when Baden-Powell set out to rebuild it. When he wrote to the great scientist, Lord Kelvin, Kelvin replied that he had "not a molecule of faith" in flight. No matter. Baden-Powell also wrote an article that spoke with a prescience worthy of Nostradamus.
What will the good citizens of London say when they see a hostile dynamite-carrying aerostat hovering over St. Paul's?
Forty-two years later we saw the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral by night, standing dimly against the smoke and flame of German bombs.
After his kites, Baden-Powell built gliders, then a powered airplane. He touched all aspects of flight. He really did rebuild the Aeronautical Society -- and he drove England to build the base of knowledge it needed to catch up with America and France.
A shy man; a stern man; a man with eyes that gaze outward and bore into you, but which look inward; a firmly controlled face; an uncomfortable mouth -- medals polished, buttons aligned. This is no warrior after all. Neither is it really an inventor. This is a visionary who has seen, with eerie clarity, a new world that he is bound to share with us.
Pritchard, J. L., Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell, Honorary Fellow, (1860-1937), An Appreciation. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 60, January 1956, pp. 9-24.
Revd Professor Baden Powell& Henrietta Grace Powell(Smyth)
Brother of Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell; Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell; Augustus Smyth Powell; Francis Smyth Baden-Powell; Henrietta Smyth Powell; John Penrose Smyth Powell; Jessie Smyth Powell; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell and Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell
Half brother of Charlotte Elizabeth Powell; Baden Henry Powell; Louisa Ann Powell and Laetitia Mary Powell
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