Bidspirit auction | WW2 Ace Wg Cdr Roland

WW2 Ace Wg Cdr Roland Beamont DSO DFC signed scarce Benham 1991 Engineering FDC BLCC62. Wing Commander Roland Prosper ”Bee” Beamont, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and 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), and the first to fly a British aircraft at Mach 2 (P. 1B). During the Second World War, he flew more than five hundred operational sorties. He also spent several months as a Hawker Aircraft experimental test pilot developing the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest, and was responsible for introducing these types into operational squadron service. He pioneered the ground attack capabilities of the Typhoon and led the air-to-air campaign against the V-1 flying bomb. . Good condition Est.