MY PART OF THE SKY Roland Beamont Battle of Britain Pilot Signed Autograph Book

Description: I’ve been selling on eBay for over 25 years. I have always had 100% positive feedback. I have never received a negative feedback. Over 2000 positive feedbacks received - no worries! Check my auctions for more Robert Taylor, John Shaw, John Young, James Dietz, Nicolas Trudgian, William S. Phillips, Keith Ferris, Jack Fellows, Harley Copic, Roy Grinnell, Frank Wootton and other aviation art prints. Also, signed & unsigned books, signed WW2 Ace biography sheets from the American Fighter Aces Association, and 1/48 scale kits from companies such as Tamiya, Hasegawa, Eduard, Revell, Monogram, etc. MY PART OF THE SKY Roland Beamont Battle of Britain Pilot Signed Autographed Book WWII WW2 CONDITION: New condition! Despite being a 35 year old book, if you picked it up and looked it over, you’d think it was new. I can’t imagine a cleaner copy exists. The dust jacket was price-clipped. HARDCOVER SIZE: 5.5 by 9 inches SIGNATURES: Hand-signed on a bookplate by Ace: Bee Beamont 208 pages ISBN: 1852600799 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 (RAF) 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, and the first to fly a British aircraft at Mach 2. Beamont arrived at British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France with 15 hours experience flying Hurricanes. The spring of 1940 provided more opportunity for action. In March he took part in an interception of a Heinkel He 111 bomber, on 8 May he shot down a Dornier Do 17. When No. 87 Squadron returned from France they were initially stationed at RAF Church Fenton, before relocating to RAF Exeter, as part of 10 Group, defending South Western England. During the Battle of Britain, Beamont claimed a Junkers Ju 88 on 24 July, two Messerschmitt Bf 110 on 15 August, a Dornier Do 17 and a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on 25 August. During the Second World War, he flew more than five hundred operational sorties. He also spent several months as a Hawker Aircraft experimental test pilot developing the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest, and was responsible for introducing these types into operational squadron service. He pioneered the ground attack capabilities of the Typhoon and led the air-to-air campaign against the V-1 flying bomb. In 1945 he commanded the Air Fighting Development Squadron at RAF Central Fighter Establishment, before leaving the service in 1947. During his subsequent career as English Electric Aviation chief test pilot (and later for BAC), he directed the flight test programmes of the Canberra, the Lightning and TSR-2, making the maiden flight of each type. When he retired from test flying in 1968, he had flown 167 different types during a total of 5,100hr and 8,000 flights—of which more than 1,100 were supersonic. Shelved in a non-smoking, climate-controlled home. Check my feedback - it's excellent. I ask for the same consideration from you. Please follow through on your bid and pay promptly. I accept all electronic forms of payment offered through eBay. I will pack your book very carefully IN A BOX with a generous amount of padding so it arrives undamaged. I do not mail books in skimpy envelopes like so many book sellers. I will combine shipping for all books you win in a single package to keep your cost as low as possible. You will pay only what it costs to mail and insure your package. For multiple purchases, add all the books to your shopping cart and pay. I will refund the excess shipping to you once I have packed the box. Media Mail insured shipping in US is calculated based on size and weight. International insured shipping through the eBay Global Shipping Program calculated based on size and weight. Thanks for your interest!

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