Roland
Beamont
CBE DSO DFC FRAeS
(EE Chief Test Pilot).
'Bee' Beamont flew Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain
and went on the command 609 Typhoon Sqn and the first
Tempest wing, ending the war with 10 victories and
accounting for 32 V-1 flying bombs.
After the war he became one of the best-known British
Test Pilots, first flying the Lighting, Canberra and
TSR 2 and was Panavia Tornado Director of Flight Ops.
Jimmy Dell OBE
(EE Chief Test Pilot).
Jimmy
Dell joined the RAF in 1942 and after the war flew
F-86Es
and the first radar equipped F-86D with the USAF.
He was the first RAF Lightning Project Test Pilot
and later became Chief Test Pilot
at English Electric/BAC test flying Lightning, TSR
2 and Jaguar.
Johnny
Squier
(EE Chief Production Test Pilot).
Johnny Squire flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain
and flew
many aircraft types before joining English Electric
as a Test Pilot.
He was the second Pilot to fly the Canberra prototype
and became Lighting Chief Production Test Pilot.
Following a structural failure at Mach 1.7 over the
Irish Sea, he ejected
from XL628, the prototype T4, famously surviving 28
hours at sea.
