Roland Beamont
Wing Commander Roland Prosper "Bee" Beamont, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (10 August 1920 – 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force 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).
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Roland Beamont
Wing Commander Roland Prosper "Bee" Beamont, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (10 August 1920 – 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force 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).
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Wing Commander Roland Prosper ...... s and got out, free of injury.
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Squadron Leader R P Beamont of No. 609 Squadron RAF, in his Hawker Typhoon Mark IB
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Roland Prosper Beamont
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Wing Commander Roland Prosper ...... ish aircraft at Mach 2 (P.1B).
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