Alexander Adolphus Dumphries Henshaw, MBE (7 November 1912 – 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers-Armstrongs during the Second World …

Alex Henshaw MBE was a British test pilot. During World War II, he was chief test pilot flying Spitfires and Lancasters at the Castle Bromwich aeroplane factory in Birmingham, run by …

Aug 15, 2022 · In a feature first published in Aeroplane’s September 1983 issue, test pilot Alex Henshaw recalled flying the first of them — and the machinations leading up to it. A classic …

Alex Henshaw in conversation with Golden Memories Sahaja Yoga- Part 2.Alex shares his golden memories with Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Sahaja Yoga in Hong Kong...

May 27, 2023 · One such hero is Alex Henshaw, a man who took to the skies not in battle, but in the test pilot’s seat. His role may not have involved dogfights over contested territories, but his …

Apr 4, 2014 · If Alex Henshaw was a star turn at Castle Bromwich, he was shortly to become a Birmingham hero. When the Lord Mayor of Birmingham launched a week-long appeal in the …

Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw MBE (7 November 1912 – 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong in the Second World War. …

Apr 3, 2009 · Alex Henshaw MBE, former vice-president of the HAA, was without doubt one of Britain’s greatest aviators. It is seventy years this year, that he completed one of the greatest …

There were three phases to his flying: his headline-making competitive exploits pre-war, culminating in a London-Cape Town-London record that still stands; his vital war work testing …

Alex soon got interested in air racing and bought Comper Swift G-ACGL to compete in the 1933 King’ Cup. The race was in four stages – triangular laps with turning points at various places in …