Air Vice Marshal Claude McClean Vincent, CB, CBE, DFC & Bar, AFC (21 January 1896 – 8 August 1967) was a Royal Air Force officer and test pilot.
He served in the British Army during the First World War on the Macedonian front before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps.
[3] Between 1924 and 1936, Vincent was involved in experimental flying and research at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, where he became one of the RAF's best-known test pilots.
During the Second World War, he was posted to the Middle East and became Commanding Officer of RAF Khormaksar in 1940.
On 15 July 1949, he was promoted to the rank of air vice-marshal and Vincent was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 5 June 1952.