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==History== | ==History== | ||
Major Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]]'s youngest brother, was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting. | Major Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell, [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]]'s youngest brother, was the first who brought flying-based activities into Scouting. | ||
The 4th World Scout Jamboree in 1933 was the first international gathering where Air Scouts were represented and who gave a number of flying demonstrations at the Jamboree. On August 9 Robert Baden-Powell visited the Air Scout contingents, in the company of Pál Teleki Hungarian Chief Scout and László Almásy (known as The English Patient), who was a leader of the Hungarian Air Scouts. | |||
Another famous pioneering glider pilot and who was Austrian Air Scout Rover Leader at that Jamboree was Robert Kronfeld - who in the 1920/30's was an Austrian Gliding Champion and who made the record books as the 1st pilot to fly across the English Channel in a glider. | |||
[http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Robert_Kronfeld] | |||
==Air Scout Leaders== | ==Air Scout Leaders== | ||