Structure and Activities
The battalion comprised two companies and a headquarters located at Farnborough. The commander of the Air Battalion was Major Sir Alexander Bannerman. No. 1 Company was equipped with airships and was under the command of Captain Edward Maitland. No. 1 Company was located with the headquarters at Farnborough. Maitland was an experienced balloon and airship pioneer. He also helped pioneer the parachute and in 1913 made the first parachute jump from an airship. No. 2 Company was equipped with aeroplanes and was commanded by Captain John Fulton. No. 2 Company was located at Larkhill on the Salisbury Plain. Fulton, a mechanical engineer from the Royal Field Artillery, had been an early enthusiast of military flying and had attended the world's first air show at Rheims in 1909. He had earned his pilots certificate, number 27, on 15 November 1910.
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