20 February 1996(1996-02-20) (aged 83) Andreas, Isle of Man
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Air Force Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Years of service
1931–1936 1940 1943–1944
Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Unit
No. 17 Squadron RAF No. 65 Squadron RAF
Battles/wars
Second World War
Battle of Britain
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire Air Force Cross
Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, OBE, AFC, FRAeS (1 February 1913 – 20 February 1996) was a British test pilot who served on secondment with the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was also the second man to fly the Supermarine Spitfire after Vickers Aviation's chief test pilot, Joseph "Mutt" Summers. After succeeding Summers as Vickers' chief test pilot, Quill test-flew every mark of Spitfire. Quill's work on the aircraft aided its development from a promising but untried prototype to become, with the Hawker Hurricane, an instrument of the Royal Air Force's victory in the Battle of Britain. The Spitfire later played a leading role in gaining Allied air superiority over Europe.[1] Quill later wrote two books about the Spitfire.[2][3]
^The Times, 29 February 1996
^Jeffrey Quill (1983). Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story. London: John Murray.
^Jeffrey Quill; Sebastian Cox (1986). Birth of a Legend: The Spitfire. Quiller Press.
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fitted and from 24 March Summers left the test-flying to his assistants, JeffreyQuill and George Pickering. They soon discovered that the Spitfire was a very...
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