The Test Pilots Bookplate - Air Combat Paintings

This bookplate is available to be issued in any copy of Robert Taylor Air Combat Paintings.

Only TWELVE available!

It has been personally autographed by highly-regarded Test Pilots of the RAF:

Squadron Leader NEVILLE DUKE DSO OBE DFC** AFC FRAeS
Hawker’s Chief Test Pilot setting a world air speed record of 727.63mph in the Hawker Hunter in 1953

Chief Test Pilot HUGH MEREWETHER FRAeS
Hawker Siddeley Chief Test Pilot and pioneer of the vertical and short take-off and landing (V/STOL) techniques in the Hawker P.1127 Kestrel

Chief Test Pilot ALEX HENSHAW MBE
Vickers Chief Test Pilot for Spitfires and Lancasters and the only known pilot to have performed a barrel roll in a Lancaster

Wing Commander ‘PADDY’ BARTHROPP
Test Pilot for the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment & HQ Fighter Command

Chief Test Pilot DUNCAN SIMPSON OBE FRAeS FIMechE
Hawker Siddeley Test Pilot for the Hawker P.1127 Kestrel and the first pilot to fly the Harrier GR1. Chief Test Pilot and first to fly the Hawk HS1182

Flight Lieutenant ROY FORD
Production Test Pilot for Hawker in 1942 and 20 Maintenance Unit Aston Down in 1943

Group Captain JOHN CUNNINGHAM CBE DSO** DFC* AE
de Havilland Engine Company Chief Test Pilot for the Vampire in 1946 setting a world altitude record of 59430ft in 1948. 

Test Pilot DAVID LOCKSPEISER
Leading Test Pilot, aircraft designer and engineer. Designing and building the LDA-01 Boxer utility aircraft the “Aerial Land Rover”

Captain ERIC ‘WINKLE’ BROWN CBE DSC AFC Hin FRAeS
World renowned Test Pilot flying 487 types of aircraft and holder of the world record for the most aircraft carrier deck take-offs and landings including the first twin-engined aircraft, tricycle undercarriage aircraft, jet aircraft and rotary wing aircraft

Wing Commander TOM NEIL DFC* AFC AE
Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot Ace and Test Pilot assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, participating in early high-altitude pressure suit experiments in 1949

Lieutenant Commander PETER TWISS OBE DSC*
Test Pilot for Fairey Aviation flying their, Primer, Gannet, Firefly, Delta 1 & Rotodyne. World Air Speed record holder in the Fairey Delta 2 @ 1132mph in 1956

Squadron Leader TONY PICKERING AFC
Supermarine Spitfire Test Pilot for 47 OUT at RAF Hawarden, Chester in 1941