Captain F (Frederick) Warren Merriam's gliding school at Whiteley Bank, near Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Starting off with a passenger - this is the only glider fitted with dual control. Captain Merriam wrote FIRST THROUGH THE CLOUDS. The Autobiography of a Box-Kite Pioneer. Published by Batsford London in 1954. The Boxkite was the first aeroplane to land upside down (in Brooklands Sewerage farm). Flight Lieutenant Frederick Warren Merriam was the first to enact the scene from the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Alfieri, Published in the Sunday Herald, 18 March 1923