Jeffrey Quill
Jeffrey Kindersley Quill OBE AFC FRAeS was a British Royal Air Force officer, RNVR officer and Test pilot and the second man to fly the Supermarine Spitfire after Vickers Aviations chief test pilot, Joseph Mutt Summers. After succeeding Summers as Vickers chief test pilot, Quill testflew every mark of Spitfire, originally designed by R. J. Mitchell.
Jeffrey Kindersley Quill was born at Littlehampton, Sussex, England onFebruary 1913, the youngest of the five children of Arthur Maxwell Quill and Emily Molesworth Kindersley, and was educated at Lancing College, which overlooked Shoreham aerodrome . While at Lancing, Quill became Captain of Gibbs House and Prefect . He played in the Cricket XI Football XI and was Sergeant in the OTC, Cert. A. Long before he left school in 1931, the aerial activity overhead had quickened the already airminded Quills resolve to take a noncommissioned career in the Royal Air Force. While still a pupil at Lancing, he had attended the famous annual RAF displays at Hendon, and two years later he participated in the event.
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