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Neville Duke dies

Flying legend Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC, AFC has died at the age of 84.

He is reported to have landed at Popham on Saturday. Shortly afterwards he collapsed. An ambulance was called and arrived quickly, taking him to hospital. Sadly, he died later that evening.

Duke was famous for, among other things, holidng the world air speed record. In 1953 he achieved 727.63 mph flying a Hawker Hunter. He was also a Second World War fighter pilot, flying out of Biggin Hill and fought many battles over northern France.

His autobiography, <i><a href=”http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1904010407?ie=UTF8&tag=flai-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1904010407″>Test Pilot</a><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=flai-21&l=as2&o=2&a=1904010407″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /></i>, regularly features among pilots’ lists of favourite books.

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