Hubert Broad

Captain Hubert Standford Broad, MBE, AFC (1897–1975) was a British First World War aviator and noted test pilot.[1] Born at Aston Lodge, Watford, Hertfordshire on 18 May 1897,[2] the son of Thomas and Amelia Broad (née Coles),[3] his father was a solicitor;[3] he was educated at St. Lawrence College in Ramsgate, Kent.Broad was wounded in the neck during one First World War mission escorting bombers and returned to England to become an instructor whilst he recuperated.[1] Given the scarcity of test pilots he was tasked with flying a wide variety of De Havilland aircraft as well as Handley Pages and Glosters.[6] Flying a Gloster III seaplane he came second to an American Army test pilot called James Doolittle.
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