MEDAL FOR TEST PILOT
Mr M. J. Lithgow Honoured
The Guild of Air Pilots anc Air Navigators has awarded the Derry and Richards Memorial Medal for 1960 tc Mr M. J. Lithgow, deputy chief test pilot of Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft). Ltd The guild considered that hi testing of jet aircraft, par ticularly in the naval field had been of outstandim value.
The medal, sponsored by de Havilland employees afte Derry and Richards lost their lives on September 6. 1952 is awarded annually by thr guild to a pilot not on active services in the regular forces but professionally engaged in flying, testing or development of British aircraft whose work has been out standing. Mr Lithgow served m iht Royal Navy until November 1945. when he joined Vickers Armstrongs. Ltd. He set up the 100 kilometres closed circuit record (561.881 miles an hour) in Attacker in 1948. In 1953 he set London-Paris <669.3 rn.p.h.) and ParisLondon <664.5 m.p.h.) records in a Swift. He set a world’s air speed record of 7-53.7 miles an hour in a Swift at Tripoli in 1953 and was also awarded the Geoffrey de Havilland Trophy in 1953.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610511.2.167
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 17
Word count
Tapeke kupu
191MEDAL FOR TEST PILOT Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 17
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in