24 December 1913

Pilot Richard Johnson joined a leading aviator, Frank Gooden, in an attempt to open an airfield and flying school in Tonbridge, Kent. The pair came to grief but were not hurt while taking off to return to Hendon after giving a demonstration flight on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1913. The wheels stuck in the mud, and the plane tipped on its nose damaging the propeller, which became an object of interest in a later Tonbridge museum.