Logbooks of WWI 'joystick' pilot up for sale
THE logbooks detailing the brave exploits of a First World War pilot who coined the word joystick are going on sale.
Major Robert Loraine, from Cheshire, notched up a string of aviation firsts
Major Robert Loraine, from Cheshire, notched up a string of aviation firsts, including making the inaugural flight over the Irish Sea in 1910 and in-flight radio message.
The Oxford English dictionary credited him in 1909 with the first use of joystick to describe his love of flying.
Bookseller Jim Hine, 60, is selling his collection of logbooks, photos and cuttings of the daring exploits of the Major who won a Military Cross and took a German bullet through the neck.
It could fetch £25,000 on April 26/27 at Oxford Brookes University.