Test Pilot
Duke, Neville; Alan W Mitchell
Language: English
Published by Grub Street Publishing, 1992
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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1st in this new edition of 1992 with added addendum by the author. Firmly bound and carefully read. Bith book & unclipped jacket are in VG clean condition. Name of previous owner dated 1993 is written on the endpaper. No tears or loss. Illustrated with b/w ohotos.
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- Title
- Test Pilot
- Author
- Duke, Neville; Alan W Mitchell
- Publisher
- Grub Street Publishing
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0948817631
- ISBN 13
- 9780948817632
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Seller catalogs
- Aviation, Military Aircraft & Air Force, World War II 1939-45
He quickly established himself as one of the most successful pilots in North Africa, winning the DFC and bar. He bought his score to twenty-one by the end of the Tunisian Campaign, was awarded the DSO, then given command of 145 Spitfire Squadron in Italy. Leading this unit in the summer of 1944 he brought his score to twenty-eight, receiving a second bar to his DFC.
Towards the end of the war he became an RAF test pilot and later a member of the RAF's High Speed Flight. This was the start of a successful career as a test pilot after leaving the Service in 1948, having been awarded the AFC. Working for Hawkers, he became Chief Test Pilot and did all the major flight development on one of the most famous of all RAF peacetime aircraft - the Hawker Hunter, and with it took the world speed record in 1953.
Test Pilot was first published in 1953. This new edition has an additional chapter covering Neville Duke's flying life from that date, and also has appendices and index, not included in the earlier book, together with a completely new selection of photographs.
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