Nigel Tangye

Nigel Tangye (24 April 1909 - 2 June 1988) was a British author.

Family

He was the brother of Derek Tangye, and grandson of Richard Tangye. He was married to the actress Ann Todd.

Career

Born in Kensington, Nigel Tangye started his career in the Royal Navy, spending three years in the Mediterranean having graduated at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He then left the Navy and devoted himself to learning to fly. He soon earned a Professional Pilot's 'B' Licence, the Navigator's Licence and the Air Ministry Instructor's Licence. After that he performed aerobatic demonstrations and worked as a flying instructor at the London Aeroplane Club.^{[citation needed]}

As the aviation correspondent for the London Evening News, Tangye covered the Spanish Civil War.^[1]

In 1938 he wrote Teach Yourself to Fly, a book designed to help flying students with the basics before entering an aeroplane. The book was sufficiently well-regarded that it became recommended by the British Air Ministry for pilots in the run up to and during the Second World War, and Tangye was asked to train prospective RAF pilots.^[2] In later life he became a hotelier at Newquay.^[3]

In later years he lived in Cornwall and died in Camborne, aged 79.

Works

• The Inconstant Sea ISBN 0-7183-0274-5
• A Girl, a Boy and a Gannet: a Tale of the Cornish Coast ISBN 0-902899-93-7
• The Blue Bays of Cornwall ISBN 0-7183-0595-7
• "Teach Yourself To Fly" by Squadron Leader Nigel Tangye, R.A.F.O. (1941) (Reprinted by Hodder, 2008; ISBN 978-0-340-96614-3)

• Contributions as Air Correspondent for the Evening News (from 1937)

Films

• Daybreak (1948) (composer, song "Daybreak")
• Conquest of the Air (1940) (technical advisor, associate producer)
• Things to Come (1936) (aeronautical advisor; designer of the 1970 Type swallow- winged aeroplane, Raymond Massey’s one man flying wing from the film

References

1. ^ Preston, Paul. We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. Constable. 2008
2. ^ Tangye, Nigel (2008) "Teach Yourself to Fly". Hodder Education
3. ^ "Glendorgal Hotel". http://www.glendorgal.co.uk/dynamicPage.asp?id=152. Retrieved 2009-03-23. 

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Name	Tangye, Nigel
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Date of birth	24 April 1909
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Date of death	2 June 1988
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