Complex sentence: In December 1911 two aviators visiting South Africa, Cecil Compton Patterson flying a Patterson No.2 Biplane and Evelyn Driver flying a Bleriot biplane, started flying demonstration flights in the Cape and aroused significant public and government interest to the possibilities of powered flight in South Africa.
Split into simpler sentences: In December 1911 two aviators visiting South Africa, Cecil Patterson flying a Patterson No.2 Biplane and Evelyn Driver flying a Bleriot biplane, started flying demonstration flights in the Cape. They aroused significant public and government interest to the possibilities of powered flight in South Africa.