Robert Henry McIntosh

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Robert Henry McIntosh (23 September 1894–1983), also known as All-Weather Mac following his ability to land safely in a six passenger Handley Page 0/400 in dense fog at Croydon Airport in October 1921, was a British wing commander and one of Imperial Airways' 16 original pilots.{{cite book |last1=Cluett |first1=Douglas |last2=Nash |first2=Joanna |last3=Learmonth |first3=Bob |title=The first Croydon Airport 1915-1928|date=1977 |publisher=London Borough of Sutton |location=Sutton |isbn=0-950-3224-3-1 |pages=48-51 |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500065321|chapter=3. Croydon Aerodrome: customs Airport of London}}{{cite book|author=Robert Henry McIntosh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCoRAQAAIAAJ|title=All-Weather Mac: The Autobiography of Wing-Commander R.H. McIntosh, D.F.C., A.F.C.|publisher=Macdonald|year=1963}} In 1927, he made unsuccessful attempts to fly at first across the Atlantic with James Fitzmaurice and then to fly to India and back with Bert Hinkler, both on the aircraft Princess Xenia, a Dutch Fokker F.VIIa.{{Cite web|last=O'Connor|first=Derek|date=30 October 2014|title=The Adventures of Flying Fitz|url=https://www.historynet.com/the-adventures-of-flying-fitz.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=20 August 2020|website=HistoryNet|language=en-US}}{{cite book|last=Dymock|first=D.R. |title=Hustling Hinkler: The short tumultuous life of a trailblazing Australian aviator|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfIrcy73ErYC&pg=PT48|year=2013|publisher=Hachette Australia|isbn=978-0-7336-2983-9|chapter=5. A pretty battered old baby|page=48}}{{cite web |title=Name McIntosh, Robert Henry Date of Birth: 23 September 1894 |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8201331|publisher=National Archives|access-date=28 June 2022 |ref=AIR 76/320/34 |date=1918–1919}}

A road, McIntosh Close, in Roundshaw, London Borough of Sutton, is named after him.{{cite book |last1=Bogle |first1=Joanna |last2=Cluett |first2=Douglas |last3=Learmonth |first3=Bob |title=Croydon Airport: from war to peace |date=2003 |publisher=London Borough of Sutton Heritage Service |isbn=0-907335-43-8 |page=146 |chapter=9}}