Who was the first person to transport live cargo in an aeroplane?
It was (later) Lietenant Colonel J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, who was minister of aircraft production during the Second World War, and a champion of female flyers. (The animal was a piglet in a wastepaper basket tied to the wing strut of his French-built Voisin in 1909. It would appear its eventual fate was not recorded.)
(From Spitfire Women of World War II, by Giles Whittell, which is a delightful read – more soon when I can snatch the time, p.110)
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