Thursday, December 01, 2011

Peter Sedgwick






The BAe146 made its maiden flight from Hatfield on 3 September 1981. Piloted by Mike Goodfellow, BAe chief test pilot, the other crew members of G-SSSH were: Peter Sedgwick, deputy CTP; Roger de Mercado, chief flight development engineer and Roger Hammond, instrumentation engineer. The BAe 1000 made its maiden flight on 16th June 1990, lasting 2 hours 15 minutes, flown by Chief Test Pilot Peter Sedgwick and Project Test Pilot Goerge Ellis.