John Currin and David Arkwright posted

The pilot’s personal effects will now join the De Havilland Vampire which he landed on HMS Ocean in 1945 – the first jet ever to touch down on the deck of an aircraft carrier – as well as the goggles and gloves which he wore during his tests.



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