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DATE 1998
Letter Neville Frederick Duke – Test Pilot
Description A genuine hand written letter + signed Photograph
Test Pilot born 11th January 1922Joined RAF as cadet 1940 92 Fighter Squadron – Biggin Hill 1941 Desert Air Force 112 Fighter Squadron 1941-42 9S Fighter Squadron 1943 Chief Flying instructor
73 operational training unit Egypt 1943-44 Commanding 145 Squadron Italy
shot down 28 enemy aircraft 1945 Hawker Aircraft Ltd Test Pilot 1945 Empire Test pilot school 1946 RAF High Speed flight – World Speed Record 1946 Resigned RAF as squadron leader 1948 Test pilot Hawker Aircraft 1948 Commanding 615 Squadron
Royal Auxiliary air force – Biggin Hill 1950 Chief Test piolt Hawker Aircraft ltd 1951-56World Record – London – Rome 1949London – Karachi – 1949London – Cairo – 1950 World Speed Record 1953 plus many more.
DSO – 1943
DFC & 2 bars – 1942 + 1943
AFC – 1948
MC – Czech – 1946
OBE – 1953
Condition
V Good,lcr
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