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Joseph Summers
Captain Joseph Summers, CBE (10 March 1904–16 March 1954), was chief test pilot at Vickers-Armstrongs.
Nicknamed "Mutt", Summers flew many aircraft for their first flights including the Supermarine Spitfire, and the Vickers Valiant. In 21 years he clocked up 5,000 hours flying.[1] By 1946 he had flown 310 different aircraft.[2]
He flew for 5 years at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Martlesham Heath, including periods on loan to Blackburn and Avro, before joining Vickers.[3]
Summers was in the Royal Air Force and knew the later C-in-C of Bomber Command "Bomber" Harris personally.[4] He was the pilot for the first bouncing bomb experiments flying a Vickers Wellington.
He was succeeded by his assistant, Jeffrey Quill, who had taken took over single seater prototypes from Summers during the war.
He died after surgery in 1954.
Honours and awards
- 9 January 1946 - Officer of the Order of the British Empire to Joseph Summers, Esq., Chief Test Pilot, Vickers Armstrongs Ltd.[5]
Notes
- ↑ http://www.daventrytoday.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=18465
- ↑ Flight May 16th 1946 pp494-495
- ↑ Barker, R. Biplane to Monoplane, Putnam's History of Aircraft: Research & Test Flying, pp.212-3
- ↑ http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/articles/dambusters/1.html
- ↑ Template:LondonGazette
References
- http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1946/1946%20-%200964.html
- http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954%20-%200801.html
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