[1] He became a Signals Officer at the Experimental Section of the Royal Aircraft Establishment in January 1934 and in February 1935 he flew a Handley Page Heyford over Stowe Nine Churches becoming the first pilot to be detected by radar.
[2] He served in the Second World War as Officer Commanding the Blind Approach Training and Development Unit and then as Officer Commanding the Wireless Investigation Development Unit before joining the Directorate of Flying Training at the Air Ministry in November 1940.
[1] In 1967 he lived in Kent,[4] where, on 10 February 1968, 24 year old window cleaner David Gilbert broke into his house, and assaulted police officer Peter Gundry.
[5] His son David also pursued a career with the Royal Air Force, becoming a Group Captain and station commander of RAF Coningsby.
He died in the 1974 Norfolk mid-air collision, when the Phantom jet he was piloting made contact with a crop-spraying aircraft.