Eardley Delauny Billing was born in 1873 in Kensington, London, the son of Charles Eardley Billing, a Birmingham iron-founder, and his wife, Annie Emilia Claridge, and the elder brother of Noel Pemberton Billing.
The Billing tractor biplane was constructed at Brooklands during 1911. Billing was, at that time, in charge of the Lane Gliding School at Brooklands and for a brief period at the begining of 1912 was in charge of the Deperdussin School at Brooklands.
Billing had previously made a ground trainer, the Eardley Billing Oscillator, at Brooklands which was exhibited at the Stanley Show in November 1910.
Eardley Billing died in Colchester in December 1915.
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