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==John Stanley Booth

Mike Lithgowhttps://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1963/1963%20-%201904.html FLIGHT International, 31 October 1963 70 In command of  the  aircraft  was  Lt  Cdr M. J. Lithgow,  with Capt  R. Rymer  as co- pilot. "Mike" Lithgow, who was deputy chief test pilot of  Vickers-Armstrongs  (Aircraft), had set up  a  world  speed  record  of  735.7 mP-h. in a Swift at Tripoli in  1953. He had served in the Royal Navy before joining the company in  1945 and   subsequently  flight- tested, and set up records in, Attackers  and Swifts. He was awarded the Geoffrey de Hav-illand Trophy in   1953 and was responsible for much of  the  Vanguard  development  flying. Capt R. (Dickie) Rymer was the first airline Pilot to fly the Viscount, in  1949, as a  BEA captain. He also operated the first scheduled Viscount service—the  world's  first  turbine- Powered   passenger     operation—between Northolt and  Paris  on  July  29,  1950. He  subsequently  joined  the  Vickers  test-flying staff.