Jeffrey Quill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jeffrey Quill

British test pilot

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1913

Place of Birth: Littlehampton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1996

Profession: test pilot

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Jeffrey Quill

  • Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, (1 February 1913 – 20 February 1996) was a British test pilot who served on secondment with the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.
  • He was also the second man to fly the Supermarine Spitfire after Vickers Aviation's chief test pilot, Joseph "Mutt" Summers.
  • After succeeding Summers as Vickers' chief test pilot, Quill test-flew every mark of Spitfire.
  • Quill's work on the aircraft aided its development from a promising but untried prototype to become, with the Hawker Hurricane, an instrument of the Royal Air Force's victory in the Battle of Britain.
  • The Spitfire later played a leading role in gaining Allied air superiority over Europe.
  • Quill later wrote two books about the Spitfire.

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