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Neville Frederick Duke Autographed Letter – Test Pilot

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Description


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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 1922

  • Joined 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 1951-56

  • World Record – London – Rome 1949

  • London – Karachi – 1949

  • London – 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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    Neville Frederick Duke

    Neville Frederick Duke

  • Additional information

    Weight 0.03 kg

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