Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire Henshaw Alex
Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire Henshaw Alex Alex Henshaw was awarded his private pilot's in 1932 and made a name for himself during the 1930s competing in the air races which were to popular…
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Sigh for a Merlin: Testing the Spitfire Henshaw Alex
Alex Henshaw was awarded his private pilot's in 1932 and made a name for himself during the 1930s competing in the air races which were to popular at the time. In June 1940, Henshaw moved to the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham shortly afterwards becoming Chief Test Pilot there.In the years that followed, he flew thousands of the Spitfires and Seafires which were built at the plant, sometimes test flying as many as 20 different aircraft in a single day. At the start of World War II he became a test pilot first for Vickers Armstrong but was then invited by Jeffrey Quill to test Spitfires at Eastleigh.
It could be hazardous work and two test pilots working from Castle Bromwich were killed in crashes. By the end of the war, 37,000 test flights had been made with Henshaw flying an estimated ten percent of all Spitfires ever built. Often flying in poor conditions and landing