Short Brothers - Chief Test Pilots

Chief Test Pilots

  • Francis McClean (honorary) until 1912
  • Gordon Bell 1912–1914
  • Sydney Pickles 1913 (Acting CTP during Bell's absence following a crash at Brooklands)
  • Ronald C. Kemp 1914–1918
  • John Lankester Parker 1918–1945
  • Geoffrey Dyson 1945–1946
  • Harold Piper 1946–1948
  • Tom Brooke-Smith 1948–1960
  • Denis Tayler 1960–1969
  • Donald Burn Wright 1969–1976
  • Lindsay Cummings
  • Allan Deacon
  • Graham Andrews
  • Jack Eaton 1984–present

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