| 词条 | J.P. "Paddy" Saul |
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| name = Paddy Saul | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | full_name = Jonathan Patrick Saul | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 15 March 1895 | birth_place = Skerries, County Dublin | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|06|22|1895|03|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Rathmullen, County Donegal | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = Irish | education = | spouse = | relatives = | known_for = | first_flight_date = | first_flight_aircraft = | famous_flights = Southern Cross as navigator and first East-West trans-atlantic flight with Kingsford-Smith, June 1930, also as navigator | license_date = | license_place = | air_force = | battles = | rank = | awards = | memorials = | first_race = | racing_best = | racing_aircraft = | website = | child = | module = }} Captain J.P. "Paddy" Saul or Jonathan Patrick Saul (15 March 1895 – 22 June 1968) was a noted Irish aviator and seaman. Early life and familySaul was one of seven children of Thomas and Catherine Saul.[1] He was born in Skerries, Co. Dublin in 1894. Saul was educated in St Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School, Dublin, but left education early to pursue a life at sea. His first job was nautical going to sea at the age fifteen and gained a Master's Certificate in navigation.[2] Saul's first wife drowned at sea in a boating accident in 1922 off the French coast, Saul swam to safety with their infant daughter and Saul's only child, Patricia.[1] His second wife also predeceased him. He retired and lived at Ashfield Park, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Army service and later careerDuring World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps (1917)[1] and a while after the war the Irish Aero Club becoming a committee member in 1929. In 1930 he was the navigator for a stage of Charles Kingsford Smith the round-the-world flight in the Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane The Southern Cross.[3] But his most important flight was to navigate the first East to West transatlantic flight from Ireland to Newfoundland in June 1930.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} Kingsford-Smith captained the flight with Dutch co-pilot Evert van Dyke, radio operator John Stannage, and Paddy Saul navigating. They were treated to a ticker-tape parade in New York on 25 June 1930 - a parade that stretched for miles. They had aimed for New York but ran short on fuel and had to land in Newfoundland after contacting US warship Wyoming by radio.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} Saul was amongst the speakers that Lady Heath invited to speak to National Junior Aviation Club in the 1930s.[4] In 1932, Saul and W.R. Elliott flew Amy Johnson and her husband Jim Mollison over the west of Ireland to survey suitable sites for Mollison's Atlantic attempt in The Heart's Content.[4] Later in his career he was involved with the establishment of Irish Air Traffic Control.[5] Saul became a civilian navigational instructor with the Royal Air Force in 1937, rising to the position of Commanding Officer of Coastal Command Operations at Crown Hill, and implementing a scheme to replace male operatives with women.[2] DeathSaul died suddenly, on a fishing boat whilst taking part in the Lough Swilly sea angling festival on 22 June 1968.[1] LegacySaul was one of four pilots to be commemorated in the An Post series of stamps in 1998 of Irish Aviation Pioneers.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|last1=Long|first1=Patrick|title=Saul, Jonathan Patrick (‘Paddy’)|website=Dictionary of Irish Biography|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=15 February 2015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Saul, J.P. Paddy}}2. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=O'Hara Blair|first1=Maureen|title=Pioneers of Irish Aviation (booklet)|date=1998|publisher=An Post|location=Dublin}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Ask about Ireland|title=The Pioneers|url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/transport/0-Transport/the-pioneers/|website=Ask about Ireland|accessdate=15 February 2015}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Traynor|first1=Michael|title=Iona: Irelands First Commercial Airline|date=2004|location=Ireland|isbn=9780954919405}} 5. ^{{cite news|last1=Unknown|title=Joy over cash boost for flight sculpture|url=http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/joy-over-cash-boost-for-flight-sculpture-27784776.html|accessdate=15 February 2015|publisher=Fingal Independent|date=23 June 2000}} 7 : 1895 births|1968 deaths|Irish aviators|Aviation pioneers|Flight navigators|Irish people of World War I|People from County Dublin |
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