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  2. The First of the Few - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Crisp is a fictional character that is an amalgam of Vickers's test pilots, Jeffrey Quill (also an RAF veteran) and "Mutt" Summers. Having one character personify the test pilots is a liberty that gives the story narrative coherence, as well as a narrator and occasional comic relief. [9]

  3. Jeffrey Quill - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, OBE, AFC, FRAeS (1 February 1913 – 20 February 1996) was a British test pilot who served on secondment with the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was also the second man to fly the Supermarine Spitfire after Vickers Aviation's chief test pilot, Joseph "Mutt" Summers ...

  4. List of SETP members - Wikipedia

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    First American to fly a jet aircraft as a test pilot for Bell Aircraft [296] [297] James Stockdale: HF USN test pilot awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War [298] Russell Thaw: HF First flight of the XF3D-1 [299] Frederick M. Trapnell: HF First US Navy pilot to fly a jet aircraft, co-founder of USN Test Pilot School [300] Roscoe Turner: HF

  5. Geoffrey Tyson - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey Arthur Virley Tyson FRAeS OBE (4 February 1907 – 9 January 1987) was an RAF officer, barnstormer and test pilot. He is best known for his aerobatic skills and the test flying of the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 and Princess flying boats.

  6. Category : Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross ...

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    D. Roderic Dallas; Rowan Daly; David Davies (test pilot) Peter George Davis; Harold Day (Royal Navy officer) Jeffery Day; Daya Shankar (admiral) Emile Dechaineux

  7. Category:English test pilots - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 4 December 2012, at 19:23 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Chopper pilot saves scores of Keys swimmers from speeding ...

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    A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission helicopter pilot positions his aircraft in front of a 36-foot boat to stop it from entering an area where people were competing in the Swim For ...

  9. Test pilot - Wikipedia

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    Léon Lemartin, the world's first professional test pilot, [1] under contract to Louis Blériot in c. 1910 Jimmy Doolittle in 1928 with his Curtiss R3C-2, around the time he pioneered blind flying Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1, first test pilot to break the sound barrier at Mach 1 in 1947 Neil Armstrong and the North American X-15 after a research test flight in 1960