Actually, there are a few winged heroes in British storypapers and libraries. We've already talked about The Night Hawk here, somewhere, and Flying Justice made an appearance in the early part of the 20th century. The Human Bat had a book all to himself and in the '50's (?) a bloke called Black Wing had a couple of stories.
I think I might be on the trail of another episode of Black Whip - just need my pal to part with the paper for a few days.