Description: B C Hucks at the Wollaton Hall Flying Meeting, June 4th and 5th 1913. Apparently named after his birthplace of Bentfield, Essex, Hucks was generally known as 'B.C.' Originally a keen motorist, he came to aviation after being banned from driving for three years for a speeding offence. He was taught to fly by his friend Claude Grahame-White in 1910, and accompanied him to the USA in that year. In 1911, B.C. Hucks (1884-1918) was engaged by the Blackburn Company to test their new monoplane. He subsequently flew this type in the Circuit of Britain races in July 1911. In August, he made one of the first air-ground wireless experiments in Great Britain. Hucks was the first British pilot to loop the loop (at Buc, France, on 15 November 1913) and he subsequently gave many aerobatic displays. When WWI began, Hucks joined the Royal Flying Corps and became the chief test pilot for the Airco firm. In 1917 he invented the 'Hucks Starter', a mobile device for starting aero engines. He died of pneumonia a week before the Armistice. (information from www.thosemagnificentmen.co.uk)