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Desmond ‘Dizzy' de Villiers AFC (7 November 1922 – 19 June 1976) was chief test pilot at de Havilland, the world's first open cockpit pilot to reach supersonic speed (albeit inadvertently, the cockpit canopy flew off mid-flight), the second British pilot to exceed mach 2, chief experimental test pilot on the English Electric Lightning programme (making more than 1,000 flights), and during his test career flew more than 6,000 hours in 130 different aircraft.

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  • Desmond ‘Dizzy' de Villiers AFC (7 November 1922 – 19 June 1976) was chief test pilot at de Havilland, the world's first open cockpit pilot to reach supersonic speed (albeit inadvertently, the cockpit canopy flew off mid-flight), the second British pilot to exceed mach 2, chief experimental test pilot on the English Electric Lightning programme (making more than 1,000 flights), and during his test career flew more than 6,000 hours in 130 different aircraft. (en)
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  • Desmond ‘Dizzy' de Villiers AFC (7 November 1922 – 19 June 1976) was chief test pilot at de Havilland, the world's first open cockpit pilot to reach supersonic speed (albeit inadvertently, the cockpit canopy flew off mid-flight), the second British pilot to exceed mach 2, chief experimental test pilot on the English Electric Lightning programme (making more than 1,000 flights), and during his test career flew more than 6,000 hours in 130 different aircraft. (en)
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