Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr.

Roald Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. ( born February 18, 1910 in Crux Easton, Hampshire, † September 27, 1946 in Gravesend, Kent ) was a British test pilot and son of the English aviation pioneer and designer Geoffrey de Havilland. His birth was registered in 1910 in Kingsclere in Hampshire District. Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. was the chief test pilot of the De Havilland Aircraft Company and completed the first flight of the de Havilland Mosquito models and De Havilland Vampire.

1945, the Order of the British Empire was forgiven.

He died on the evening of September 27, 1946 at high speed tests with the Experimental Aircraft De Havilland DH108 Swallow over the mouth of the Thames. The remains of the aircraft were found the next day in the swamp of Egypt Bay at Gravesend in Kent. The 1952 film The Sound Barrier rotated ( The sound barrier ) by David Lean based on this event.

  • Pilot
  • De Havilland
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Briton
  • Born 1910
  • Died in 1946
  • Man
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