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flying boat flew, the company announced that it was to close the aviation department and
Manning was made redundant in 1926. For a couple of years he became a consultant to FIAT in Italy with the design of racing seaplanes. From 1935 to 1939 he ran the airworthiness department of the British Gliding
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Kingdom and Manning became the Chief Designer. The company made aircraft for private individuals and other companies, more than nine in the last few months in 1909 and another six were completed in early 1910. The
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who had a firm dealing with electricity generating installations and had built some early aircraft. Manning and Wright both had an interest in aviation and
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