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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 1316.PDF
404 FLIGHT, 6 September 1957 PRESS VIEW NOT the least busy people in the week preceding the S.B.A.C. Display were Flight photographers L. W. McLaren and Ian Macdonald. While McLaren was wielding his favourite "V.N." over Lancashire, Macdonald was at work along the South Coast with a similar implement. Each flew in a night-fighter Meteor and thair subjects are presented here—the first prototype English Electric P. IB and the smoke-trailing red-painted Sea Hawk aerobatic team of 738 Sqn., Royal Navy. The P.1B was flown by W/C. R. P. Beamont, O.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C, manager flight operations and chief test pilot, English Electric Co., Ltd.; and the Sea Hawk pilots were Lt-Cdr. A. J. Leahy, D.S.C. (commanding officer), Lt-Cdr. T. C. S. Leece, Lt. B. W. Wilson, Lt. C. S. Casperd, and Lt. B. R. Toomey.
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