from Malad City, ID
Author
Ronald Shepherd
ISBN #
8170010969
1896 • Kensington London , England
Died:1955 • Nuthall , Nottinghamshire , England
Royal Air Force officer • Consultant
Although no longer flying full-time and aged 58 he made the first free flight of the unusual Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig a pioneering vertical take-off and landing aircraft on 3 July 1953.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire