page_title: James Radley
section_title: Aviation and motor career
hierarchical_section_title: James Radley / Aviation and motor career
caption_attribution_description: English: Radley-England floatplane, 1913.
context_page_description: James Radley was one of the first English aviators, holding Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate Number 12. As well as carrying out demonstration flights and competitions in aircraft, he also piloted a ballon in a number of balloon races. As well as his interests in aviation he was a racing driver.
context_section_description: Radley started as a racing driver before gaining his aviators certificate on 14 June 1910.
  In June 1910 he flew his Blériot XI at the first aviation meeting held in Scotland at Pollokshaws, Glasgow making seven flights.
  In October 1910 he flew in the United States, winning the cross-country aviation race at Belmont Park in New York. Radley covered 20 miles in 19 minutes and 46 seconds, an American speed record.
  In 1911 he entered the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Air Race and was to use an Antoinette monoplane, but he failed to start.
  In July 1912 he won a cross-country balloon race where he achieved a distance of 132 miles from Hurlingham.
  For the 1913 Circuit of Britain  race, Radley in co-operation with Gordon England designed and built the Radley-England waterplane to take place in the 1913 race.  It was damaged before the race and did not complete, the aircraft was subsequently modified and re-built.
  In 1912 Radley entered a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost into the 1912 Austrian Alpine Trial, he also competed in 1913 and won in 1914 with test driver and riding mechanic 'Tubby' Ward.
  In August 1914, Radley joined the Royal Automobile Club Volunteer Force and took his personal Rolls Royce car to France to act as a civilian staff car driver for senior officers of the British Expeditionary Force.
caption: Radley-England seaplane in 1913
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