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Posted by Gerard on December 15, 2022, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Biggles"
You'll need the books of Roland Beamont. quote; "Wing Commander Roland Prosper "Bee" Beamont, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (10 August 1920 – 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an experimental test pilot during and after the Second World War. He was the first British pilot to exceed Mach 1 in a British aircraft in level flight (P.1A),[Note 1] and the first to fly a British aircraft at Mach 2 (P.1B).[1]" Wiki
He headed up testing planes, like the Tempest, to take on Germany's new "butcher bird"..I'm thinking of blogging something on this..will post it here if/when I do...(his life story would make a great film), ..