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Testing Tornado: Cold War Naval Fighter Pilot to BAe Chief Test Pilot

Testing Tornado: Cold War Naval Fighter Pilot to BAe Chief Test Pilot


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The career of a BAe Chief Test Pilot - 6,000 flying hours in 61 different aircraft It was early Cold War days when 17-year-old David Eagles applied to the Fleet Air Arm hoping to be a fighter pilot for his national service. He little imagined the career that would follow. After flying training with the US Navy and Australian Fleet Air Arm, he settled into Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot life. He progressed through Naval Test Pilot duties – where he was forced to eject from a Buccaneer during catapult launch trials – before joining British Aerospace and playing a major part in the cockpit design and flight-testing of the RAF's first fly-by-wire and swing-wing aircraft, the Panavia Tornado. His other experiences include ditching a Firefly into the sea and the near loss of the first British Tornado prototype after a bird strike. Finally, after 6,000 flying hours in sixty different types of aircraft, Eagles finished his career by making the first flight of the EAP, the technology demonstrator for the new Eurofighter Typhoon. Vividly illustrated with photographs, documents and plans, this is a fascinating memoir of naval-flying and test-flying some of the world's most iconic fighters. AUTHOR: Lieutenant Commander John David Eagles AFC is a British former test pilot and former Fleet Air Arm aviator. He was awarded the Air Force Cross and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Having left home to join the Navy at 17, he knew little about his father and it was that which inspired him to record his memoirs for his own family. SELLING POINTS: . David Eagles enjoyed a long and prestigious career test flying some of the most iconic fighters in the world . Memoirs include crash landing a Firefly in the Australian sea; ejecting a Buccaneer during a stalled catapult launch; and losing an engine and very nearly losing the first British Tornado prototype itself after a bird strike . Aircraft featured include Sea Fury, Firefly and Spitfire, Vampire, Seahawk and the American Panther, and of course Panavia Tornado and EAP . Vividly illustrated with photographs, documents and plans 60 bw, 30 b/w illustrations, 16 colour plates

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Lieutenant Commander John David Eagles AFC is a British former test pilot and Fleet Air Arm aviator. He was awarded the Air Force Cross, the RAeS RP Alston Medal, and the Derry and Richards Memorial Medal for Experimental Flying. He was also elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots & Air Navigators and admitted into the Freedom of the City of London.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780750968416
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: The History Press Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Sub Title: Cold War Naval Fighter Pilot to BAe Chief Test Pilot
  • ISBN-10: 0750968419
  • Publisher Date: 08 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 156 mm


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