Twiss (Right) at Buckingham Palace during Investiture, 6 April 1943
Born
(1921-07-23)23 July 1921
Lindfield, West Sussex, England
Died
31 August 2011(2011-08-31) (aged 90)
Known for
Breaking the World Air Speed Record and being the first person to exceed 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) in flight
Awards
Distinguished Service Cross (1942) & Bar (1943) Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air (1955) Britannia Trophy (1956) Segrave Trophy (1956) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1957)
Aviation career
Full name
Lionel Peter Twiss
Air force
Fleet Air Arm
Battles
Second World War
Malta Convoys
Operation Torch
Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Lionel Peter TwissOBE, DSC & Bar (23 July 1921 – 31 August 2011) was a British test pilot who held the World Air Speed Record in 1956.
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Aircraft Design. Shrewsbury, UK:Airlife, 1994. ISBN 1-85310-488-4. Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947. London:Putnam, 1979. ISBN 0-370-10029-8....
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competed in the 1947 High Speed Handicap in Vampire F1 VZ332, coming sixth. PeterTwiss flying a Firefly IV won the high-speed race at 305.93 mph (492.35 km/h)...
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to 1989. Ann Welch, Nicholas Goodhart, Ralph Hooper, Frank Irving and PeterTwiss were also members for many years. Imperial College Gliding Club is the...
the racing track in 1959. In 1960, she married her flying instructor PeterTwiss who broke the world air speed record as the first man to fly faster than...
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expert (University of Belgrade), co-founder of the Democratic Party. PeterTwiss, 90, British test pilot. Rosel Zech, 69, German actress (Veronika Voss...
three-man crew, or the cores are ever found. Fairey Aviation test pilot PeterTwiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta 2, also becoming the first...
when he came out of the Royal Navy. The world air speed record holder PeterTwiss joined Fairey Marine Ltd from Fairey Aviation in 1960 and was responsible...
December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. "Segrave Trophy for PeterTwiss" (PDF). Flightglobal: 202. 15 February 1957. Archived (PDF) from the...
Lithgow, Neville Duke, James B. Verdin, F. K. Everest, Horace A. Hanes, PeterTwiss, Georgii Mosolov, Adrian E. Drew, Walter W. Irwin, Joseph W. Rogers,...
Admiral Sir Frank Roddam Twiss, KCB, KCVO, DSC (7 July 1910 – 27 January 1994) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief...
G-AMVP. In 1957, it was used in a publicity stunt when Fairey test pilot PeterTwiss landed it on the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. For part of its time...
Seychelles by the British authorities. 10 March – Fairey Aviation test pilot PeterTwiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta 2, also becoming the first...
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Empire (CBE) in 1973 and knighted in the 1984 Queen's birthday honours. "PeterTwiss obituary". The Guardian. 2 September 2011. Archived from the original...
characterized only by the first order coherence. The 1956 Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment brought to light a different kind of correlation between fields...
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