| Entry Text: | LITHGOW, Mike. Mach One. 151p., illus. London: Wingate, 1954.
A curiously flat account of an adventurous career. Lithgow joined the FAA in March 1939. After training he joined Ark Royal in June 1940 and took part in the Mers-el-Kebir action and in subsequent Mediterranean actions, including Spartivento, the bombardment of Genoa and the Bismarck chase. The squadron then returned to the UK to re-equip with Albacores then joined Formidable in February 1942. After a spell with the Eastern Fleet she returned home and the author then went to Boscombe Down to test fly the Barracuda. From this he went to the US in 1944 to the Naval Air Test Center and from this grew his subsequent career as a test pilot. |
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