Royal Naval Air Service: Never happy with the RFC, the Naval wing was detached in July, 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War.
In Western Canada, after Wilfred May was discharged from the Royal Naval Air Service and moved to Edmonton, a Montreal businessman offered the city of Edmonton a Curtiss JN-4 after he found success in the city's real estate.
With the onset of WWI, the flight was cancelled and John Porte returned to England for duty with the Royal Naval Air Service as a squadron commander and took command of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station.
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